Die Veröffentlichung der Bewerbungen um die neuen Top Level Domains wurde am 13. Juni bekannt gegeben. Von den 1930 Anträgen kommen 70 aus Deutschland. 45 Anträge davon lassen sich in Marken- oder brand-TLDs einteilen. Prominente Bewerber sind der ADAC (.ADAC), die Audi AG (.AUDI), BMW (.BMW), die Robert Bosch GMBH (.BOSCH), der SPIEGEL-Verlag (.SPIEGEL), die RWE AG (.RWE). [...]
ICANN has just today released the list of new gTLDs applications. The list is available on the ICANN website as a PDF (602 kb) as a CSV (245 kb) The list comprises of 1,930 new TLD strings, 230 of which are duplicate applications.
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) received a total of 1930 applications, after refunds, for new generic top-level domains. 1846 of those are “standard” applications. 84 are designated as “community-based”. Of the 1930, 66 have designated themselves as geographic name applications. 116 applications are Internationalized Domain Names, or IDNs, using non-Latin scripts. [...]
ICANN has announced that they have selected Deloitte and IBM on implementation of Trademark Clearinghouse services for new gTLDs. The Trademark Clearinghouse is brand protection mechanism. As proposed by ICANN, the Trademark Clearinghouse is intended to function as an information repository and offer authentication and validation services for trademark data. The Clearinghouse will serve as [...]
