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Strickling says ICANN needs a stronger bottom

National Telecommunications & Information Administration chief Larry Strickling has called for ICANN to strengthen its decision-making processes. In a speech at the University of Colorado ...

ARI Wins .SYDNEY, .MELBOURNE & .VICTORIA As Big Guns Wheel Out Announcements

ARI Registry Services has been selected by the NSW and Victorian governments to assist with the application and operation of the .SYDNEY, .MELBOURNE and .VICTORIA top level domains. ARI Registry ...

M+M registers for another 20 gTLD applications

Minds + Machines parent Top Level Domain Holdings has registered for another 20 new gTLD application slots with ICANN, bringing its total to date to 40. The TLD Application System slots are for ...

Watch ICANN approve some new gTLDs

In ICANN’s world, the current new top-level domains application period is actually the fourth, not the first. As well as the 2000 “proof of concept” round, there was the ...

Tucows co-founder takes hard line on .club gTLD

.CLUB Domains LLC says it has secured funding for its .club generic top-level domain application, and says it is ready to go to an ICANN auction if necessary. CEO Colin Campbell, a Tucows ...

CentralNic working with .mls new gTLD bidder

MLS Domains has contracted with CentralNic to provide the back-end registry for its .mls new top-level domain application, which it expects to be contested. MLS in this context stands for Multiple ...

ICANN Dot-Anything: Rethinking the Scope of the New GTLD Expansion, It’s Effect on Government Regulation, and It’s Impact on Trademark Owners by Ukeme Awakessien

Abstract: Just like the technology world prepared for Y2K, the dot-com centric way of Internet addressing is preparing to change. Instead of typing www.dot.com into your web browser, you will be ...

Details of new gTLD batching process revealed

Some details about how ICANN will prioritize new generic top-level domain applications into batches have emerged. The Applicant Guidebook states that gTLD applications will be processed in batches ...

Australian Football League to Apply For .AFL TLD

According to an article in the Herald Sun, the Australian Football League (AFL) has applied for the .AFL domain in the new Top Level Domain program currently under way by ICANN. Applications in ...

Australian Sporting Code Punts For Own TLD

The uniquely Australian sporting code, the Australian Football League, has become the first Australian brand and about ten others globally to announce it will be applying for a top level domain by ...
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