ICANN Choses Marrakesh,Morocco for its ICANN 52 Meeting

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), announced that it has selected Marrakesh,Morocco for  ICANN 52 meeting.

 

The meeting will be held February 8th-12th,2015.This is the meeting that will be held in the Africa region.ICANN hosts three times a year a meeting in a different geographic area.On May 3,2013 was posted a call for recommendations for the location of the meeting to be held in Afirca.

ICANN 51 meeting will be held from October 12th-16th,2014 in Los Angeles,California.

 

Sedo To Hold Premium Numeric Domain Name Auction in September

Sedo will be hosting in September a Premium Numeric domain name auction. The auction starts September 3,2014 and will end one week later, on September 10,2014.

 

The highest bidder will be given first priority to acquire the domain name.

The upcoming Premium Numeric Domain Auction will include domains fulfilling the following criteria: 

The domain must be a PURE NUMERIC domain

Extensions:

Preferred TLDs : .COM/ .NET / .CN / .COM.CN ;

other TLDs or ccTLDs might be accepted if the domain quality and reserve price are super appropriate

Length：

Preferred Length: 4 or less than 4 numbers;

Other names have more than 4 but less than (equal to) 6 might be also considered if the quality and reserve prices are super appropriate

The number is easy to remember and contains high commercial value

The reserve price for the domain is reasonable

The domain doesn’t violate any third party rights (e.g. trademark rights)

Check out Sedo.com for more information.

 

ICANN Appoints Board of Directors Liaison and IANA Staff Expert

ICANN has appointed Kuo-Wei Wu as the ICANN Board of Director’s liaison for the NTIA IANA Functions’ Stewardship Transition Coordination Group.

 

Kuo Wu has extensive experience in ICT technology, information security, Internet governance and Internet policy, and previously served as Chairman of the now-defunct Board IANA Committee.

Additionally, ICANN has appointed Elise Gerich, Vice President of IANA & Technical Operations, as the staff expert to provide information to the Coordination Group as needed.

Please see here for the most updated list of confirmed Coordination Group representatives.

Go (Do)Nuts In July With 29 New gTLDs

Donuts is set to launch a total of 29 new gTLDs in July – 17 will commence General Availability while 12 will hit their Sunrise phase for early registration by trademark holders.

Included in this month’s launch is .services, .city, .guide, .church, .finance, .deals, .university and .pictures.

With July’s launches, Donuts, the largest registry for the number of gTLDs applied for, will have 139 new gTLDs under management and will continue releasing new domains on a weekly basis throughout 2014.

Donuts and a number of other providers of new domain names have sold almost 1.5 million new domain names since the program formally launched in general availability last January.

“There is no better testament to the great, global demand for this program than the uptake it has enjoyed among consumers,” Donuts co-founder and CEO Paul Stahura said. “Consumers are showing an early preference for these new domains, since the names tell you more about the website you’re planning to visit, and they’re easier to remember. Perhaps the thing people like best is that these new domains are more like natural language.  And that’s the way technology is headed.”

Stahura has particularly strong expectations for .SERVICES, a Donuts gTLD that entered Donuts’ Early Access Program on July 2 and will be available at normal pricing July 9. “The little talked about .SERVICES gTLD has the potential to have wide appeal in a service economy,” he said. “Interested registrants should contact their registrars now so they don’t miss the valuable names in this gTLD.  There is only one day left before its debut at regular pricing.”

The new gTLDs available in July are being made available according to this schedule:

Sunrise availability to trademark holders:
As of July 1:
.DIGITAL, .ACCOUNTANTS, .FINANCE, .INSURE

July 8:
.LOANS, .LIFE, .GUIDE, .CHURCH

July 15:
.DIRECT, .PLACE

July 22:
.DEALS

July 29:
.CITY

General availability to any registrant
July 2:
.SERVICES

July 9:
.CAPITAL, .ENGINEERING, .EXCHANGE, .GRIPE

July 16:
.ASSOCIATES, .LEASE, .MEDIA, .PICTURES

July 23:
.REISEN (German for “travel”), .TOYS, .UNIVERSITY, .TOWN

July 30:
.WTF, .FAIL, .FINANCIAL, .LIMITED

ICANN: Introduction of Two-Character Domains for .DEALS, XN–FJQ720A, .CITY, .XYZ, .COLLEGE, .GOP, .TRADE, .WEBCAM, .BID, .HEALTHCARE, .WORLD, .BAND

Purpose (Brief): Six (6) Registry Services Evaluation Process ( RSEP ) requests were submitted by the registry operators listed below to allow the introduction of two-character domain names for the below TLDs. In total, the requests concern 12 New gTLDs.

 

Proposal	TLD	Registry Name	Documents
2014027	healthcare world band	Binky Lake, LLC*	Binky Lake, LLC Request 25 June 2014 [PDF, 16 KB]
2014024	trade webcam bid	Elite Registry Limited	Elite Registry Limited Request 16 June 2014 [PDF, 16 KB]
2014023	gop	Republican State Leadership Committee, Inc.	Republican State Leadership Committee, Inc. Request 12 June 2014 [PDF, 15 KB]
2014022	xyz college	XYZ.COM, LLC	XYZ.COM, LLC Request 12 June 2014 [PDF, 18 KB]
2014016	city	Binky Lake, LLC*	Binky Lake, LLC Request 10 June 2014 [PDF, 15 KB]
2014015	deals xn--fjq720a	Binky Lake, LLC*	Binky Lake, LLC Request 6 June 2014 [PDF, 16 KB]

*Note: Binky Lake, LLC has submitted three RSEP requests on behalf of Donuts, Inc. for 6 gTLDs

As part of these requests, each registry operator described which two-character domain names for which it would offer these registrations. These RSEP requests were posted for public information on the Registry Service Evaluation Process webpage, available at https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/rsep-2014-02-19-en.

As required by the Registry Services Evaluation Policy, ICANN has undertaken a preliminary determination on whether the proposals might raise significant competition, security or stability issues. ICANN ‘s preliminary review (based on the information provided) did not identify any such issues for these requests.

Implementation of the proposal would require amendments to the Exhibit A, Approved Services of the respective Registry Agreements, which are being posted for public comment.

Forum Announcement: Comment Period Opens on 8 July 2014

Public Comment Box Link: https://www.icann.org/public-comments/two-char-new-gtld-2014-07-08-en

This ICANN announcement was sourced from:
https://www.icann.org/news/announcement-2-2014-07-08-en