Friday, January 7, 2011

Laurent GBAGBO now listed on OFAC's SDN list

The OFAC is the Office of Foreign Assets Control from the United States of America Department of Treasury.

As explained in 1.2.1 of the last Applicant Guidebook fomo november 10, the OFAC also administers as an economic and trade sanctions program : anyone listed in their SND list is automatically disqualified from the new gTLD program.

In today's update of the SDN list of specially designated Nationals and blocked persons, a certain Laurent Koudou Gbagbo appears.

Thursday, January 6, 2011

.NAPLES (Florida) or .NAPOLI (Italy) ?

This TLD project is about the city of Naples in Florida - USA

More about the city of Naples can be found here

.NAPLES Top-Level Domain concept is explained here

OMC : Phase finale pour les négociations sur les indications géographiques en 2011

Les négociateurs de l’OMC sur la propriété intellectuelle ont décidé d’établir un registre des indications géographiques pour les vins et les spiritueux d'ici la fin 2011.

Trois propositions de projet existent actuellement.

Il s'agit d'un dossier que nous suivons de près dans le sens ou les indications géographiques sont un volet important de la rédaction des conditions d'éligibilité pour accéder aux noms de domaine du vin.

Wednesday, January 5, 2011

New gTLD or New pTLD ?

Introducing more confusion to the world of new gTLD, please welcome the new pTLDs.
"pTLD" stands for "Public Top Level Domain"according to the Internet Names Authorization & Information Center (INAIC).

Recent pTLDs :
  • .APP
  • .CHAN
  • .SVC
  • .BHARAT
  • .EDUNATION
  • .CLOUD
  • .PBX
  • .WHO
  • .GIB
  • .SME
  • .UN1
  • .INBOX
Note these Top-Level Domains won't be listed on Registries.tel since they don't follow the ICANN rules but the Public-root's rules.

Tuesday, January 4, 2011

Ville de Naples (Floride)

Non, il ne s'agit pas de Napoli, la capitale de la région de Campanie en Italie mais bien de la ville Américaine du même nom en Floride.


http://www.dotnaples.org

Bad french press for .42

.42
.P2P
.MUSIC

Note these recent projects do not come in competition with official TLD projects following the ICANN rules. These TLDs, to work properly, require to be configured on each computer.

Saturday, January 1, 2011

.TOULOUSE

I am from the city of Toulouse/south of France (also called "the pink city") so I wrote a bit about a new gTLDs for its residents.

More here (in french)

Friday, December 24, 2010

.FLORIDA TLD project

According to my source, the .FLORIDA Top-Level Domain will be announced officially in January 2011.

New web site is available here : http://www.dotflorida.org

.BRAND new gTLD Reports are updated once a month.

.BRAND new gTLD Reports are updated once a month.
Cick here !