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FairWinds Partners —  September 7, 2012 ICANN has long upheld the stance that its role, though critical to the everyday functions of the Internet as we know it, is very limited. In fact, on the Frequently Asked Questions page of ICANN’s website, it says the following: “ICANN’s role is very limited, and it is not

FairWinds Partners —  September 6, 2012 Some readers may remember hearing about a court ruling from last month that made some waves in the domain name space. The Central District of California District Court ruled that the lawsuit filed by Manwin Licensing, the owner of YouPorn.com against ICM Registry, the operator of the .XXX gTLD,

FairWinds Partners —  September 4, 2012 On Thursday, ICANN will host another one of its New gTLD Program Applicant Update webinars to update applicants on topics “of interest” to them. One of those topics, of course, is the ongoing progress toward adopting a solution to resolve the issue of application batching/metering/sequencing once and for all.

FairWinds Partners —  August 29, 2012 Though pushed back slightly due to tropical storms, the kickoff of the Republican National Convention this week coincides serendipitously with our discovery of a new email service claiming to offer more privacy and security than widely used, free email providers. And what is the domain name that the email

FairWinds Partners —  August 24, 2012 These days, you’d be hard pressed to find a person who owns a personal computer and has a checking account that doesn’t utilize online banking in some capacity, whether to pay their bills, check their balance, or transfer funds. But with the ease and convenience of online banking comes

FairWinds Partners —  August 21, 2012 At the end of July, ICANN opened a public comment period to gather input from the community about how it should handle the issue of batching new gTLD applications. gTLD Strategy readers will remember that once Digital Archery met its bitter end during the last ICANN Public Meeting in

FairWinds Partners —  August 20, 2012 If you read our last gTLD Strategy post, you’re probably sick of hearing about the Trademark Clearinghouse (TMCH) by now. But today is an important day in the ongoing development and implementation of this aspect of the New gTLD Program. Today and tomorrow, ICANN is hosting a technical summit

FairWinds Partners —  August 14, 2012 In a recent post, we talked about silver bullets – specifically, the belief that new gTLDs would be a magic cure to all search engine optimization quandaries. But after talking with multiple brand owners across a variety of industries, we’ve realized that there is another widely held misconception about

FairWinds Partners —  August 10, 2012 ICANN announced today that the new gTLD Public Comment period has been extended until September 26, 2012. This means that members of the public have an additional 45 days to submit comments on new gTLD applications with ICANN’s assurance that those comments will reach new gTLD application evaluators. So