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  • Blacknight 10 Year Anniversary: Google Nexus 7 Giveaway Elliots Blog (Friday, 3 May) - Blacknight is an Ireland based, ICANN accredited domain name registrar and hosting company. The company is celebrating its tenth anniversary by holding a drawing for a Google Nexus 7 tablet with Android 4.1 Jellybean. It looks like visitors can enter up to 15 times each, and one random winner will...
  • Domain Name News - April 29, 2013 Webnames.ca Blog (Monday, 29 April) - Proposed New ICANN Registrar Accreditation Agreement Posted - ICANN has posted for public comment a proposed new Registrar Accreditation Agreement (RAA). The document is the result of more than 18 months of negotiations between ICANN and the registrar community.......
  • Domain Name News - April 15, 2013 Webnames.ca Blog (Monday, 15 April) - ICANN Meeting in Beijing Completed - The 46th ICANN meeting was held in Beijing last week. One of the main themes was the New gTLD Program, and progress was made on a number of aspects of this initiative, including:......
  • The Lord Giveth and the Lord Taketh Away Elliots Blog (Wednesday, 3 April) - This is a guest post about the Internet Commerce Association from domain investor Nat Cohen, President of Telepathy, Inc. For the domain industry, the part of the Lord is played by the U.S. Government and ICANN. In the early days of the Internet, the U.S. Government policy allowed billions of...
  • Domain Name News - April 1, 2013 Webnames.ca Blog (Monday, 1 April) - ICANN Meets Next Week in Beijing - ICANN is meeting on April 7-11 in Beijing, China, with some pre-meeting events taking place as early as Thursday, April 4. One of the main topics will be the New gTLD program.......
  • Domain Name News - March 25, 2013 Webnames.ca Blog (Monday, 25 March) - ICANN Releases Initial Evaluation Results for New gTLD Applications - ICANN has released Initial Evaluation results for the first set of New gTLD applications. Results for applications with priority numbers 1 through 30 have been posted, all of which......
  • Domain Name News - March 11, 2013 Webnames.ca Blog (Monday, 11 March) - ICANN Seeks New Registry, Registrar Agreements - Approximately one month after posting a proposed new gTLD registry agreement, ICANN has posted a proposed new registrar agreement. Both proposed agreements have encountered criticism, notably from within the registry and registrar......
  • Domain Name News - March 4, 2013 Webnames.ca Blog (Monday, 4 March) - ICANN Publishes New gTLD Program Contention Sets - ICANN has completed the contention sets for the New gTLD Program. A contention set is a group of two or more gTLD applications containing identical or visually similar gTLD strings. In......
  • Domain Name News - February 18, 2013 Webnames.ca Blog (Monday, 18 February) - ICANN Sets April 23 Target For First New gTLD Recommendation - ICANN is "targetting to be able to recommend for delegation the first New gTLD as early as the 23rd of April," according to ICANN President and CEO Fadi......
  • New gTLDs, New Logos DomainTools Blog (Monday, 11 February) - Big changes are ahead on the internet. ICANN will be implementing its new gTLD program this Spring (2013) and we can expect to see hundreds of new domain name extensions such as .love, .donuts, .art, .law, .fashion, .games, .tech, .pizza. ninja…well… you get the idea.There will be new gTLDs for...