UPDATE 16 Jun 2019: News Review 2)a. Afilias v. ICANN .WEB IRP Update.
1) Afilias vs ICANN, IRP UPDATE re: new gTLD .WEB
Declaration of Procedures Officer 28 February 2019:
Request for New Procedures Officer 8 March – 9 April 2019:
Amended Request for Independent Review Process 21 March 2019--Editor's note: "DAA" refers to NDC’s Domain Acquisition Agreement with VeriSign.
Relief requested (p.25):
- Expert Report by Jonathan Zittrain (Harvard Law Professor)
- Report of George Sadowsky (former ICANN Board Member 2009-2018)
See also:
2) Names, Domains & Trademarks
- The global TLD market is estimated at around 351 million domains [domain name registrations] across 1486 recorded TLDs. Total gTLD domain name registrations are 194 million of which 71% are under .COM.
- The median domain growth of all TLDs has hit a record low of 3.4% year over year;
- Only .COM is growing among the top 4 gTLDs -- the annual rates of +growth or -decline are as follows: .com +5.2%, .net -4.5%. .org -1.9%, .info - 24.2%.
- As noted above, 71% of all gTLDs' domain name registrations are under .COM, which is also the world's largest TLD, with a 40% market share among all top-level domains (TLDs = ccTLDs + gTLDs);
- 267 ccTLDs have a combined market share of 45% among all TLDs.
- New gTLDs, "which include well over 1000 TLDs, have a little under 10% of the market and show no immediate sign of increasing that"... "gTLDs will face challenges in the coming months given other registration trends such as a declining create ratio, an increasing delete ratio and a relatively low renewal rate median of 64%."
Editor's note: the data and statistics compiled and reported by CENTR, an association of European ccTLD registries, is vastly superior to anything ever produced by incompetent ICANN. Unlike ICANN, CENTR properly defines "registrant" [not "Registered Name Holder"]:
Registrant – "The individual or organisation that registers a specific domain name. A registrant holds the right to use that domain name for a specified period of time."One possible future option for the global internet community is to have the world's ccTLDs run the IANA functions in view of the dysfunction at ICANN and its continuing debasement of the world's gTLDs.
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d. .BRAND new gTLD .AMAZON:
On 15 May 2019, the ICANN Board took action in accordance with the process established in the ICANN Board resolution adopted 10 March 2019, and in recognition of all input received, directing ICANN org to continue processing the .AMAZON applications toward delegation. The next step in the process is publication of the Public Interest Commitments (PICs), proposed by the the applicant, for a 30-day public comment period, per the established procedures of the New gTLD program. See 17 May 2019 Letter from ICANN CEO Göran Marby to Amb. Alexandra Moreira Lopez re: new gTLD .AMAZON.
3) ICYMI Internet Domain News: Antitrust
- A New Google Antitrust Probe Could Spell Trouble for Its Auto Domination Plans--fortune.com.
- ISP Antitrust: "Don’t Let California’s Legislature Extend Broadband Monopolies for Comcast and AT&T"--eff.org.
4) Other ICANN News
b. ICANN GNSO EPDP Next Meeting May 23, 14:00 UTC (agenda, etc. at the link).
See also:
- EPDP May 16 Meeting Notes and Action items, EPDP Phase 2 action items.
- EPDP Phase 2 Clarifying Legal Questions Table (pdf) and SG/C/SO/AC Input Template (pdf).
c. ICANN gTLD Registries and Registrars Required to Implement New Interim Registration Data Policy by 20 May 2019--ICANN.org.
5) Most Read this past week on DomainMondo.com:
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-- John Poole, Editor • Domain Mondo