Pre-ICANN 52 Policy Update Webinar
The ICANN Policy Development Support Team will provide a Policy Update Webinar on Thursday 29 January 2015 at 10:00 UTC and 19:00 UTC, summarizing policy activities across the ICANN policy development community and the ongoing Transition of Stewardship of the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority ( IANA ) Functions and the ICANN Accountability efforts.
Please RSVP via this form by 23 January 2015.
Remote participation details will be sent the week of 26 January 2015.
Updates will also be provided on topics from ICANN ‘s Support Organizations and Advisory Committees:
- Address Supporting Organization ( ASO ) and Regional Internet Registries ( RIR ) Activities
- Generic Names Supporting Organization ( GNSO ) Policy and Implementation Working Group
- GNSO Privacy & Proxy Services Accreditation Issues Working Group
- GNSO Translation & Transliteration of Contact Information PDP Working Group
- Country Code Names Supporting Organization ( ccNSO ) Framework of Interpretation Working Group Recommendations
- At-Large Advisory Committee ( ALAC ) and Regional At-Large Organizations (RALO) Activities
- Government Advisory Committee’s ( GAC ) Advice on Country Names at the Second Level
- GAC ‘s Implementation of the Second Accountability and Transparency Review Team’s (ATRT2) Recommendations
- GAC Advice on new gTLD Safeguards
- Root Server System Advisory Committee ( RSSAC ) Advisories Update
- Security and Stability Advisory Committee ( SSAC ) Advisory on Maintaining the Security and Stability of the IANA Functions Through the Stewardship Transition
The two sessions are duplicates, scheduled to accommodate different time zones. Each session runs for 90 minutes and will be conducted in English only. The webinar will be conducted in Adobe Connect along with a dial-in conference bridge for audio. The slides and transcript of the sessions will be available in the 5 UN Languages and Portuguese.
Participants will have the opportunity to ask questions at the end of each session. During the course of the webinar, questions may be submitted using the chat function in Adobe Connect.
Recordings of the webinars will be made available. The Policy Development Support Team is always available to answer any questions via email at
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Please RSVP via this form by 23 January 2015.
Remote participation details will be sent the week of 26 January 2015.
https://www.icann.org/news/announcement-2015-01-14-en
Rightside Introduces TLDs .GIVES and .DEGREE for Social Responsibility and Education
[news release] Rightside, a leading provider of domain name services that advance the way businesses and consumers define and present themselves online, today (14/1) announced the launch of .GIVES and 
.DEGREE. These new TLDs offer a way for charitable and educational organizations to improve their visibility and to attract donors and students.
For the more than one million charitable organizations in the United States, .GIVES provides a platform to affirm their commitment to their communities and causes. Seventy percent of Americans and the majority of large corporations give to charity each year, contributing more than $229 billion in total donations. With a .GIVES domain name, a not-for-profit organization can align its online identity with its mission while developing and maintaining relationships with new and existing donors. For-profit entities can use the .GIVES domain to call out a website or subset of web pages dedicated to their corporate giving and community involvement programs.
The .DEGREE domain creates a medium of communication for faculty, students, and parents seeking information from online and traditional universities. From online recruitment and marketing, to faculty profiles and student engagement forums, .DEGREE offers a centralized resource for educational opportunity and future success. With the dramatic rise in online education offerings from both state and private colleges and universities, .DEGREE creates a suitable online home for distance-learning programs, with memorable URL options such as onlinemba.degree.
In an expanding world of domain availability, .DEGREE and .GIVES join a growing portfolio of web extensions that align with professional and personal interests. This transition is especially important for universities, as institutions of higher learning rely more heavily than ever on the Internet to showcase their campus life and academic offerings to potential students and their families.
Philanthropic and academic organizations can use a .GIVES or .DEGREE domain to improve visibility with new and existing audiences at every point of contact — through online and offline ads, web and search traffic, signage, emails, and printed marketing collateral.
Through Rightside’s retail registrar Name.com and its network of partner registrars and resellers, getting a new web or email address ending in .GIVES or .DEGREE is a simple process, one that connects organizations and individuals with accessible, memorable web identities no longer limited by the scarcity of options on legacy domains.
About Rightside
Rightside™ inspires and delivers new possibilities for consumers and businesses to define and present themselves online. The company, with its affiliates, is a leading provider of domain name services, offering one of the industry’s most comprehensive platforms for the discovery, registration, usage, and monetization of domain names. In addition to being a new gTLD registry operator, Rightside is home to some of the most admired brands in the industry, including eNom, Name.com, and NameJet (in partnership with Web.com). Headquartered in Kirkland, WA, Rightside has offices in North America, Europe, and Australia. For more information please visit www.rightside.co.
This Rightside news release was sourced from:
http://investors.rightside.co/releasedetail.cfm?ReleaseID=891238
2014 Highest Reported Non .COM gTLD Sales
Sex.xxx was the highest reported non .COM gTLD sale in 2014. The domain name changed hands for $3 million through ICM Registry.
Here are the highest reported non .COM gTLD sales in 2014:
1. Sex.xxx $3,000,000
2. Mobile.net $500,000
3. Yes.net $175,000
4. 99.net $150,000
5. Coin.org $75,000
6.tie Luxury.estate $50,000
6.tie Offer.net $50,000
8. Dolphin.org $45,000
9. RideSharing.org $39,000
10. Uber.org $36,000
11.tie Everything.org $35,000
11.tie World.estate $35,000
11.tie Ride.org $35,000
11.tie NM.org $35,000
15. 100.org $26,000
16. tie Baltic.cruises $25,000
16. tie Mailbox.org $25,000
18. Movie.info $24,626
19. LLC.biz $23,520
20. FantasyFootball.org $23,500
ICANN Quarterly Stakeholder Report – Register for the Q2 Call on 29 January 2015
ICANN has announced that the FY15 Q2 Stakeholder Report will take place on 29 January at 14:00 UTC. The report will detail how ICANN has progressed against its strategic and operating plans for the quarter ending 31 December 2014.
Why this matters: The Quarterly Stakeholder Reports have been set up to enhance ICANN ’s accountability and transparency efforts by making it easy to follow ICANN ’s progress toward fulfilling its mission of keeping the Internet secure, stable and interoperable.
Please click here to register your interest and receive joining instructions.
The call is open to all, including press, and there will be ample time for questions and answers (Q&A).
More information
Presentation slides will be available for viewing prior to the call, starting 28 January. To view them, please visit the reporting page on the ICANN website by clicking here.
You can also find other useful recourses and background information on this page, and both the transcript and a recording of the call will be posted here shortly after.
These calls have been set up to enhance ICANN ‘s accountability and transparency efforts by making it easy to follow ICANN ‘s progress toward fulfilling its mission of keeping the Internet secure, stable and interoperable.
Agenda
| 10 min | President’s Overview Fadi Chehadé, President and CEO |
| 10 min | Policy Update David Olive, VP Policy Development Support |
| 15 min | Management Update Sally Costerton, Sr. Advisor to President, GSE |
| 10 min | Finance Update Xavier Calvez, CFO |
| 30 min | Q&A All |
https://www.icann.org/news/announcement-2015-01-13-en
Second .CLUB Domain Sells For $100,000
In what appears to be the equal biggest reported sale of a domain name in any of the new gTLDs, vegas.club has sold for a cool $100,000, equalling the sale of coffee.club.
The sale was announced at Namescon, currently underway appropriately in Las Vegas. The domain was bought by One Degree World Systems and will include the formation of a partnership to launch and operate the Vegas.CLUB website as a destination membership club.
The site will launch in the second quarter of 2015 and will offer a variety of membership tiers with varying degrees of service levels, including members-only deals on nightclubs, hotels, shows, attractions and tours as well as concierge services, VIP status at local attractions, and white glove services like personal assistants on the ground, butler and nanny services and more.
At the helm of the partnership is One Degree World’s CEO Howard Lefkowitz, a travel and tourism pioneer, who built VEGAS.com into the largest city site in the world.
“Being in a club is about having exclusivity, connections and personal service,” said Lefkowitz. “It’s how you get into the hottest clubs without waiting in line, get the best seats to a show and the chef’s s table in the top restaurants, how you get that special present for a loved one and have the waiter bring it to the table and how to get that document printed, signed and overnighted to its destination. Being in a members-only club opens lots of doors and ensures an experience of a lifetime with no extra effort.”
Lefkowitz announced the Vegas.CLUB partnership during a keynote presentation at the NamesCon conference currently underway at The Tropicana Las Vegas. The RightOfTheDot consultancy also assisted in putting together the deal.
“We’re incredibly excited and privileged to partner with Howard on Vegas.CLUB and participate in its success, because his track record in travel, tourism and entertainment is unmatched, and quite frankly nobody knows the city and its assets better than he does,” said Colin Campbell, president and CEO of .CLUB Domains. “Vegas.CLUB will be geared to those people who want to really take advantage of the city and everything it has to offer and will truly be a great showpiece of how the right domain can add tremendous marketing value.”
The .club gTLD currently has 165,000 of the almost four million domains under management across all of the new gTLDS and is the third largest of the new gTLDs by registration numbers.
