gTLD Strategy
All Eyes on the GAC
FairWinds Partners — June 24, 2012 Yesterday, ICANN made waves by announcing that it had suspended the Digital Archery process for batching. In the public statement, ICANN stated, ...
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Competition and New gTLDs: More than Meets the .EYE
FairWinds Partners — June 21, 2012 One week after ICANN revealed 1,930 applications for new gTLDs, the Internet community continues to debate the validity of many parts of ...
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Glitches Galore
FairWinds Partners — June 15, 2012 Maybe we shouldn’t be surprised at this point. But this morning, when we woke up and checked our email to find there ...
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The Aftermath: Reveal Day and FairWinds’ New gTLD Workshop
FairWinds Partners — June 14, 2012 If you’re anything like us here at FairWinds, you’re visiting this blog while taking a break from parsing through the lengthy list ...
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.FAIRWINDS
FairWinds Partners — June 13, 2012 Today, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) posted the complete list of new gTLD applicants and what they ...
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More Batching Updates, Process Still Complicated
FairWinds Partners — June 7, 2012 Yesterday, ICANN issued another announcement about the batching process for new gTLD applications. For the most part, it’s nothing we don’t ...
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Ready, Aim, What? Digital Archery, Part 2: Implications
FairWinds Partners — May 25, 2012 So now we know how ICANN’s Digital Archery process will work, and have a very rough idea of when that process will ...
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Ready, Aim, What? Digital Archery, Part 1: Process
FairWinds Partners — May 24, 2012 It’s been more than two months since ICANN first announced its plans for how to deal with the “batching” issue – how ...
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Pre-Reveal Day Sneak Peek
FairWinds Partners — May 11, 2012 We may not know precisely when ICANN will finally publish the full list of new gTLD applications and applicants, but we do ...
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ICANN by the Numbers
FairWinds Partners — May 4, 2012 ICANN’s TLD Application System (TAS) remains offline this week as ICANN is continuing to work through the data in order to determine ...
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The .COM World is Not Enough
FairWinds Partners — April 27, 2012 VeriSign, Inc., the registry that operates .COM, .NET, .NAME, .CC and .TV, published its first quarter revenue figures in a press release ...
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TAS Update: Delay Continues
FairWinds Partners — April 17, 2012 Last night, ICANN published a new announcement about the ongoing process to fix the glitch that had exposed certain applicants’ user names ...
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