The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) revealed the full list of new gTLDs . .APP , .INC , .SHOP , .BLOG and .MUSIC are the most wanted new gTLDs.
Google,Amazon and Demand Media applied for the sames gTLD : .WOW . Only four USA cities applied for their own top-level domain names : The Boston Globe Newspaper Company applied for .Boston ,City of New York applied for .NYC,Top Level domain Holdings applied for .Miami and Dot Vegas Inc. has applied for .Vegas.
Dot Adult and dot Sex have been applied for by the ICM Registry.Yahoo! also decided to apply for two gTLDs : .YAHOO and .FLICKR .
Here are the most wanted new gTLDs :
.APP – 13 applications
.Home – 11 applications
.INC – 11 applications
.ART – 10 applications
.SHOP – 10 applications
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) ,revealed that it has received a total of 1930 new gTLD applications after refunds. 1846 out of the 1930 applications are “standard” applications while 84 are designated as “community-based”.
Moreover, 116 applications are IDNs (Internationalized Domain Names) and 66 have designated themselves as geographic name applications.
The 1930 new gTLD applications were received from 60 countries :
– 911 gTLD applications came from North America
– 675 applications came from Europe
– 303 applications came from the Asia-Pacific region
– 24 came from Latin America and the Caribbean
– 17 applications came from Africa
You can see the full list of new gTLDs here .
In the next 12 months, the internet will be changing radically and forever; the web addresses we have all become used to (like .com, .net, .org) will be joined by a whole host of other terms (such as .car, .apple, .paris or .almostanything), and not just a few of them either, nearly 2000 new extensions in fact!
With the list of applicants for new Internet Names having been announced on 13 June 2012, the one thing that all companies will be asking is “What can I do if someone has applied for my brand name?”
If one of these new extensions closely matches your brand (appel), product name (iPlod), industry sector (.computers) or community in which you have an interest (.music) your options will depend upon the state of the application in question; is it before the evaluation is complete (pre-delegation) or after the application has been approved (post delegation)?
Pre-delegation
1 – Comment on an application before it enters the evaluation phase. These comments will be taken into account by the evaluators.
2 – Formally object to an application while it is under evaluation. There are 4 grounds for objection, String Confusion (.appel vs .apple), Legal rights objections (trademarks), Community objections (does the apple growing community support .apple) and limited public interest (is .terrorist really in the public interest?)
3 – Negotiate with an applicant to enable them to secure your support, to withdraw your objection or to convince them to withdraw their application.
4 – Provoke a GAC early warning. The Governmental Advisory Committee (GAC) is the representative body of various national governments with ICANN. The Early Warning Notice is a notice to the applicant from the GAC that the application or proposed string would be considered controversial or raise national sensitivities.
5 – Provoke a GAC Advice. The ICANN Board of Directors takes GAC Advice into consideration. The aim of GAC Advice is for the ICANN Board of Directors to get some level of comfort that a particular applied-for gTLD string does not impair the interests of one or more governments.
6 – Involve ICANN’s independent objector. The Independent Objector is an individual who must be and remain independent and unaffiliated with any of the gTLD applicants. The Independent Objector does not act on behalf of any particular person or entity, but acts solely in the best interests of the public who uses the global Internet.
Post Delegation
7 – Initiate court proceedings – Court Proceedings may be initiated against ICANN or any other party, be it an applicant or not.
8 – Call upon the ICANN ombudsman. All along the Evaluation process, ICANN will take some decisions that will have an impact on many organisations. You may wish to raise a petition with the Ombudsman concerning decisions, actions, or inactions by one or more members of ICANN staff or by the ICANN Board of Directors that may impact you.
9 – Request for Reconsideration
ICANN can be requested to reconsider one or more decisions by submitting a request for reconsideration or review of an ICANN action or inaction to the extent that you have been adversely affected by one or more staff actions or inactions that contradict established ICANN policies, or one or more actions or inactions of the ICANN Board of Directors.
10 – Request an Independent Review
The request for independent review is a process in which one or three outside international jurists are asked to review an action or inaction by the Board of Directors of ICANN.
Some of these objections mechanisms are cost effective and straightforward, others are more costly and complicated. It is important to take independent expert advice on the feasibility and viability of employing any of these mechanisms in respect to your specific situation.
For further information and advice visit www.gtld.com
