L'Oréal to withdraw its .LOREAL new gTLD application

Made public yesterday, French Luxury brand L'Oréal has decided to withdraw its application from the ICANN new gTLD program. Apply the "withdrawn" filter in this page to check withdrawn applications.

Allication withdrawn: .LOREAL (download the application).

Question to the French Government on .WINE and .VIN

Question to the French Government on .WINE and .VIN new gTLDs, starts at 48:00 mn in this video.

The direct link which points to mn 48:00 is available here.

Update (slides) on the ICANN new gTLD program (05 June 2013)

Yesterday's agenda, (in red, what matters to me):

• Initial Evaluation:
• Results Published for Application Priorities 1 to 600:
• 518 passed;
• 4 eligible for Extended Evaluation;
• 60 withheld due to CQ/Change Request or Outreach;
• 18 withdrawn.
• Initial Evaluation Outcomes:
• Pass;
• Eligible for Extended Evaluation;
• Ineligible for further review.
• 71 Application withdrawals to Date.
• Continuing Operations Instrument;
• Objections & Dispute Resolution:
• Current Progress:
• 262 admissible objections filed;
• 139 admissible applicant responses filed;
• 119 Filings in-review;
• 4 filings dismissed due to applicant withdrawal;
• DRSPs are finalizing applicant responses and selection of expert panels.
• Circumstances that may alter process timing:
• Applicant and objector interaction (e.g., responses, payments);
• Complexity of objection filings (e.g., consolidation).
• Additional/Supplementary activities (i.e., hearings, additional written submissions, negotiation, mediation).
• String Contention Resolution:
• Contention Proceedings planned to begin September 2013;
• Community Priority Elections will be accepted beginning next week (by 14 June) via the Customer Portal:
• Expect an announcement next week with election instructions;
• Additional CPE may be performed after Extended Evaluation, as necessary
• Auctions:
• Non-community contention sets can begin auction concurrent with CPE;
• Others will begin at the conclusion of CPE and EE, as necessary.
• Contracting (Next webinar: 13 June 2013);
• GAC Advice;
• Pre-Delegation Testing (Anycast Instance Testing to be eliminated);
• Registry Data Escrow;
• Security & Stability Studies:
• ICANN has commissioned two studies to determine:
• Security impacts of delegating applied-for new-gTLD strings that are currently used in private networks;
• Security & stability impacts of dotless domain names.
• These studies will identify and classify potential risk levels, and provide ICANN with mitigation options, as needed.
• IDN Variant TLD Program Webinar (27 June 2013);
• Trademark Clearinghouse (http://trademarkclearinghouse.com/):
• Users:
• 636 trademark holders
• 119 agents.
• Trademark records submitted:  3,027:
• Verified:  1,380;
• In process:  1,132;
• Incorrect:  503;
• Invalid:  12.
• Early bird submissions for no additional fee;
• Trademark Clearinghouse & Internationalized Domain Names Webinar (Date: 19 June 2013).
• Tentative timeline:
• 30 June: Registry Agreement Approved;
• 1-8 July: Contracting;
• 9 July - 9 August: Pre-Delegation Testing;
• 12-14 August: Transition to IANA;
• 15-28 August: IANA Delegation;
• 28 August: First new gTLD delegated;
• 29 August - 27 September: Sunrise Notice;
• 28 September - 27 October: Sunrise Period.
• Questions (one answer by ICANN was: "I understand the question and I understand how important it is to you but the ICANN legal department prevents me from answering it" :-).

Download the complete presentation here (PDF file).

Passing ICANN Evaluation & Preparing gTLD to Launch

More here: http://wolfedomain.com/

Agenda | New gTLD Program Committee | ICANN

11 June 2013

Consent Agenda:

• Approval of Minutes

Main Agenda:

• BGC Recommendation on Reconsideration Request 13-3
• Info Discussion on ALAC Statement on IDN Variants
• Plural vs. Singular
• Any Other Business

Agenda | New gTLD Program Committee | ICANN

New gTLD applicant creates Governance Councils

Famous Four Media, an applicant for multiple extensions just created a series of Governance Councils to "govern" new Registries to be created.

Many of these strings are in competition and none have yet been allocated to any applicant: 

• .BASKETBALL
• .CASINO
• .BOOK
• .CHAT
• .DIET
• .FASHION
• .FOOTBALL
• .GAME
• .HOTEL
• .MOVIE
• .MUSIC
• .NEWS
• .POKER
• .RESTAURANT
• .RUGBY
• .SPORT
• .SOCCER
• .TENNIS
• .TICKETS
• .TAXI
• .WINE
• ... 

You will probably like to read why “The .Health Governance Council will be an essential part of the .Health gTLD” on TheDomains.com, followed with a few questions of mine to its representative which have not yet been answered. Also .HEALTH competitor Donuts shares about his competitor's Governance Council on LinkedIn (20+ comments).

The list of Governance Councils can be found down this page : http://www.governancecouncils.com/