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The meeting proved to be vital to New gTLD applicants due to a special meeting of the ICANN board on June 20th where ICANN voted to approve the New gTLD Guidebook (noting that a few minimal changes are still in order and officially kicking off the New gTLD world wide communications campaign.
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It’s been a few weeks since the dust settled from the recent ICANN International Public Meeting which was held in Cartagena, Colombia. The .SiTE team sat front and center, focused fully on the New gTLD process to gain insight on what is happening on the New gTLD front. Here’s the skinny.
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In a bold and unexpected move, the overseer of the Internets name space, ICANN has voted to allow co-ownership between registries (the entities that run Top-Level Domains) and registrars (the entities that sell domain names to end-users.)
The issue of Registry/Registry separation has been ongoing since before ICANN first announced that it would open up the Internet to New Top Level Domains, like SiTE. In 2007, members of the community expressed concern over the issue and ICANN commissioned a study to be carried out by the research firm CRA International. The CRA Report was published in October 2008 and set the stage for two years of debate, four revisions of the New gTLD Draft Applicant Guidebook, and several thousand email exchanges in a Policy Development Working group before the ICANN Board took matters into its own hands. In a matter of eight months, or a little more than 230 days, the ICANN board did an one-eighty on its original decision requiring strict separation.
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The Special Meeting of the ICANN Board of Directors which took place Thursday, October 28th (10/29/2010 JST) has prescribed just what many new gTLD applicants such as .SiTE have needed.
The ICANN board passed a resolution which aims at starting the New gTLD Application round on May 30th, 2011. According to the resolution, the issues of Vertical Integration, Recommendation 6 Objection Process, and Geographic names have yet to be resolved.
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The minutes from the recent ICANN Board Retreat were made available today. The retreat, which took place in Trondheim, Norway this past Thursday and Friday, was a closed meeting of the Board in which they focused several remaining key New gTLD issues. ICANN Chariman, Peter Dengate Thrush, said that progress had been made in the process for creating the New gTLD Program and that several additional reports had been requested. The Chariman of the Board also indicated that a modified version of the Draft Applicant Guidebook (DAG) was also requested. The forthcoming version of the DAG, as well as the additional reports are expected to be released sometime before ICANN 39 in Cartagena, Columbia early this December.
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