gTLD Strategy

Just a Warning?

FairWinds Partners —  October 22, 2012 Last week in Toronto during ICANN’s 45th Public Meeting, members of the Governmental Advisory Committee, or GAC, discussed a variety of topics ...
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ICANN Toronto: A Slight Change in the Atmosphere

FairWinds Partners —  October 15, 2012 You know that first day at the end of summer, before the temperature drops and the foliage changes, when there’s just something ...
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ICANN’s New Batching Proposal: Back to Basics

FairWinds Partners —  October 11, 2012 The last time we wrote about new gTLD application batching (or metering or sequencing) here on the gTLD Strategy blog was over ...
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Playing the New Name Game

FairWinds Partners —  October 2, 2012 This week, a few members of the FairWinds team are off in London to meet with some clients and friends across the ...
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Just to Clarify

FairWinds Partners —  September 21, 2012 If you’re a new gTLD applicant, there is a chance that at some point over the past few weeks, you received a ...
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Dollars and Sense

FairWinds Partners —  September 12, 2012 At this point, we all understand that for new gTLD applicants, new domain extensions do not come cheap, especially considering the $185,000 ...
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ICANN’s Line in the Sand

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, ...
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ICANN Armageddon or Much Ado about Nothing? – Manwin v. ICM and ICANN

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 ...
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The Votes are In, but the Jury’s Still Out on Batching

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” ...
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Un-Convention-al

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 ...
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Advice You Can Take to the Bank

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 ...
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Weighing in on Batching

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 ...
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