RegistryASP is sponsoring the 38 ICANN meeting held in Brussels, Belgium. The meeting will run from 20 June to 25 June 2010.
This is going to be an important meeting for all organizations that are interested in the new gTLD programme. The new gTLD Draft Applicant Guidebook (DAG) version 4 has already been released at the [...]

The new gTLD Draft Applicant Guidebook (DAG) version 4 is now available for public comment as announced by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN).
This version of the DAG has important new content, for example:

Incorporation of trademark protections, including improvements to the Uniform Rapid Suspension (URS), the Trademark Clearinghouse (TM Clearinghouse), and the [...]

It is the unveiling of yet another new gTLD, .SITE. .SiTE is a New gTLD being proposed by UrbanBrain Inc., Tokyo, Japan. .SITE is positioned as an alternative to the all-popular .COM and .NET.
Representative Director and CEO of UrbanBrain Inc., Kevin Saimon, indicates the addition of new Internet extensions will increase competition in the market. [...]

We spotted a logo for .IRISH on the ICANN micro-site for its 38th international meeting which is to be held in Brussels, Belgium. The organization behind .IRISH is sponsoring the meeting as a silver sponsor. It seems the Irish are also hopping on to the bandwagon for new gTLDs.
There has not been much information on [...]

The first Cyrillic Internationalized Domain Name (IDN) country-code Top Level Domain (ccTLD), .РФ is now approved and operational. The introduction of .РФ was lobbied for by both President Dmitry Medvedev and Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, both self-confessed keen internet users.
“I have just checked, the website президент.рф is up and running. The Cyrillic website of the [...]