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The .SPORT Internet Registry
Setting a new world record
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At the last ICANN meeting in Seoul, South Korea last month, the ICANN board agreed to a porposal from a group led by Mind+Machines’ Jothan Frakes that suggested to launch a call for Expression of Interest in new top level domains, like .sport. As is usual, ICANN submitted the proposal to public comments. The whole [...]
The ICANN Seoul meeting is now over, and our team came with some good news and no so good ones. The not so good news is that the ICANN staff does not commit to any timeline for the introduction of new top level domains. The previous information saying that applications for new top level domains like [...]
ICANN has published today the third draft of the Applicant’s Guidebook for new Top Level Domains. This is a huge pile of information that will require several days to digest. At first sight, the current version does not change a lot with regard to our .sport proposal. There are still concerns in the Internet domain [...]
The Subcommittee on Communications, Technology, and the Internet held a hearing titled, "Oversight of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN)" on Thursday, June 4, 2009. In his testimony before the Congress, Dr. Paul Twomey, CEO of ICANN, highlighted the strong interest of the Internet community for new Generic Top Level Domains. Along [...]
Luxembourg, Luxembourg and Mexico City, Mexico – 02 March 2009 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE The DotSport consortium announced today that his founder, Patrick Vande Walle, has been appointed to the Security and Stability Advisory Committee of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). The Security and Stability Advisory Committee advises the ICANN community and [...]
ICANN today published a revised version of the gTLD applicant's guide. This document will be further discussed at the ICANN Mexico meeting at the beginning of March. Some issues regarding trademark protection, security and stability have not been addressed yet in this version. It is anticipated that a final version will be published this summer [...]
DotSport founder Patrick Vande Walle has commented on the ICANN new gTLD process, and expecially on the draft RFP and applicant's guide. Read the here on CircleID: http://www.circleid.com/posts/20081216_icann_new_generic_tld_process/ Another post in French on Patrick Vande Walle's blog: http://patrick.vande-walle.eu/internet/icann/commentaires-nouveaux-tld/
A draft 'Applicant Guidebook' for new generic top-level domains (gTLDs), is now available for review and comment at http://www.icann.org/en/topics/new-gtld-comments-en.htm. The draft Guidebook provides information for those interested in applying for new generic top-level domains. "Since ICANN was founded 10 years ago, one of the foundational principles has been to support competition and consumer choice in [...]
The presentation made this morning at EGENI Paris is here (PDF format)
The annual EGENI event in Paris will take place on the 20th June 2008, right before the ICANN meeting, at the same venue. We will take this opportunity to present the .SPORT project. It is your chance to discover what is behind .SPORT and how you can help make it happen.
