ICANN is set to reveal its list of new generic top-level domain applications on or around June 13, according to several sources. My understanding is that the date has not yet been set in stone – it could be a day or so either side – but that June 13 is the current target. " [...] 继续阅读 →

Making a binding policy at ICANN takes about the same amount of time as gestating a human fetus, but only when the organization and community are working at their absolute fastest. It’s much more often comparable to an elephant pregnancy. That’s according to a timetable researched by ICANN senior policy director Marika Konings and circulated [...] 继续阅读 →

Tucows has started offering .jobs and .aero domain names through its OpenSRS reseller channel. According to a blog posting, resellers will have to opt in to offering these gTLDs. Prices are $125/year for .jobs and $50/year for .aero. It’s potentially good news for both registries, particularly .jobs. Both are restricted, sponsored gTLDs, but .jobs has [...] 继续阅读 →

The .nxt conference on new generic top-level domains, planned for London next month, has been postponed until later this year, the organizers have announced. .nxt CEO Kieren McCarthy blamed the ongoing uncertainty surrounding the new gTLD program timetable following ICANN’s six-week TLD Application System outage. McCarthy wrote on the .nxt web site: Our main goal [...] 继续阅读 →

At least one new generic top-level domain applicant has requested a full $185,000 refund of its application fee, according to ICANN. This exchange is from last night’s Twitter chat with ICANN executives: @icann Has anyone asked for a refund yet? #icannchat — Kevin Murphy (@ DomainIncite) 5 月 22, 2012 It’s interesting that the answer was [...] 继续阅读 →

Customers of major UK domain registrar 123-reg suffered a couple of hours of downtime this afternoon due to an apparently “massive” denial of service attack. The attack targeted its DNS servers and originated in China, according to a report in The Register. Users reported sites offline or with spotty availability, but the company managed to [...] 继续阅读 →

Adrenaline TLD has confirmed that it no longer plans to apply to ICANN for the sport-themed top-level domains .surf, .skate, .bike and .board. The news was implicit in the announcement from Starting Dot that it has partnered with Adrenaline for .ski earlier this week, but the company today confirmed as much. In a statement this [...] 继续阅读 →