Slides of last ICANN webinar are available

Agenda on the slides:

1. New gTLD Program Update Christine Willett;
2. VP gTLD Operations + New gTLD Stability & Security Jeff Moss;
3. Chief Security Officer + New gTLD Operational Readiness Fadi Chehadé;
4. President & CEO + Questions.

Content:

1. New gTLD Program Timeline;
2. Initial Evaluation Results;
3. Initial Evaluation Reports;
4. Finalizing Initial Evaluation Reports;
5. Initial Evaluation Panel Stats;
6. Contracting Phase: Registry Agreement Eligibility;
7. Pre-Delegation Testing Pilot Update;
8. Pre-Delegation Testing;
9. Customer Service Center Status;
10. Trademark Clearinghouse;
11. Objections & Dispute Resolution;
12. Independent Objector;
13. Beijing New gTLD Sessions;
14. Security, Stability, & Resiliency (SSR) Update;
15. New gTLD Security Stability & Resiliency (SSR) Update;
16. Root Zone Management;
17. Root Server System Readiness Progress Report;
18. Operational Readiness in the context of SSR;
19. Dealing with unforeseen (SSR) effects of new TLD delegations;
20. SSR and new TLDs: A community effort;
21. New gTLD Operational Readiness.

Agenda published prior to publishing the slides:

1. Initial Evaluation (IE);
2. Update Pre-delegation testing & pilot;
3. Contracting Rights;
4. Protections;
5. Closed generics;

Download the presentation (PDF file)

Why won't ICANN protect wine Geographical Indications?

Trademark Clearinghouse - Introduction

.VIN applicant passes ICANN Initial Evaluation

First Donuts gTLD clears IE! Strong scores for tech, financial, background checks. On to next steps! #newgtlds #icann

— Donuts (@DonutsInc) March 22, 2013

EFOW to ask ICANN about Geographical Indications

This is a letter from EFOW which asks ICANN regarding the protection of wine Geographical Indications (and more) in the new gTLD program.

Sender's Affiliation: 
European Federation of Origin Wines

Issue:
ICANN initiatives for the attribution of new gTLD - PDO and PGI wines’ concerns.
Letter from the European Federation of Origin Wines regarding Geographical Indications.

Letter from Riccardo Ricci Curbastro to Steve Crocker, Cherine Chalaby, Fadi Chehadé and Akram Atallah | ICANN

Total protection requested for Geographical Indications under .VIN, .WINE and all other TLDs

In its letter recently sent to ICANN, the European Federation of Origin Wines, a Brussels based-organisation representing PDO (Protected Designation of Origin) and PGI (Protected Geographical Indication) wines towards European and International institutions, would like to bring to ICANN's attention a crucial issue for the safeguard of the wine sector concerning the attribution of new generic top-level domains (gTLD).

EFOW is concerned that this new procedure could lead to the abuses of its members' Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs).

Read the letter "en avant-première" on CircleId.

New gTLDs SWOT Analysis: OPPORTUNITIES

This post follows part 2 of my SWOT analysis of the ICANN new gTLD program.

The SWOT analysis is a structured planning method used to evaluate the Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats involved in a project: the ICANN new gTLD program in this case.

OPPORTUNITIES

1. For Registries; 
2. For Service Providers; 
3. For ICANN; 
4. For Registrants; 
5. For Domainers; 
6. For Cybersquatters. 

Read more on CircleId.

The abyss between ICANN and Registrants

For French reader only ;-)

"Partie des attributions de l’ICANN dans la réalisation de son programme de lancement des nouvelles extensions est de permettre aux gens qui achèteront des noms de domaine d’être protégés s’ils appartiennent à un groupe. Exemple concret à partir de l'expérience du secteur viticole."

Read the end on le JDN.