105 new gTLD applications passed ICANN Initial Evaluation (IE) on Friday.
A few geographic area new gTLD’s passed including .Brussels; .Osaka; .Yokohama; .Bayern
Leading the way on the .Brand applications were the new gTLD applications of Google for .Google; The National Football League’s application for .NFL; Major League Baseball’s application for .MLB and .Baseball; The car makers applications for .Mitsubishi, .Nissan and .Jeep; the worldwide Hotel chain .Hyatt; the .Com and .Net Registry provider Verisign’s application for .Verisign; MetLife Insurance for .Metlife; Nationwide Insurance’s application for .Nationwide; the watch maker .Piaget; the international bank .Barclays ; the Mumbai Indians “a popular and prominent cricket franchise representing the city of Mumbai in the Indian Premier League (owned by Reliance Industries Limited) application for .Indians and brand protection company Fairwinds application for .Fairwinds;
On the generic side some interesting uncontested applications that passed IE included .Vegas which was found by ICANN not to qualify as a Geographic area but passed as a generic; a quasi community of .Irish; Domain Dan Negari’s application for .XYZ; and Google’s application for .Dot or pronounced Dot Dot and Google’s application for .You.
With these results ICANN has looked at all applications with a prioritization number through 1,600 deciding 1,488 of them.
It looks like ICANN will easily hit its goal of getting through Initial Evaluation by the end of August
Here are all the applications passing IE on Friday:
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596 INDIANS Reliance Industries Limited
851 GOLF Dot-Golf LLC
937 VANISH Reckitt Benckiser N.V.
1115 NATIONWIDE Nationwide Mutual Insurance Company
1206 METLIFE MetLife Services and Solutions, LLC
1391 AIGO aigo Digital Technology Co,Ltd.
1458 XYZ XYZ.COM LLC
1491 IRISH Dot-Irish LLC
1501 FAIRWINDS FairWinds Partners, LLC
1502 NEXTDIRECT Next plc
1504 VEGAS Dot Vegas, Inc.
1505 COOKINGCHANNEL Lifestyle Domain Holdings, Inc.
1506 BABY DotBaby Inc.
1507 GROUP Top Level Design, LLC
1508 MOPAR Chrysler Group LLC.
1509 SEEK Seek Limited
1510 MITSUBISHI Mitsubishi Corporation
1511 MEET Afilias Limited
1512 NFL NFL Reg Ops LLC
1513 BASEBALL MLB Advanced Media DH, LLC
1514 ART Aremi Group S.A.
1516 EUROVISION European Broadcasting Union (EBU)
1517 FISH Fox Woods, LLC
1518 BRUSSELS DNS.be vzw
1519 HEALTHCARE Silver Glen, LLC
1520 ANTIVIRUS Symantec Corporation
1521 TEAM Uniregistry, Corp.
1522 PARTNERS Magic Glen, LLC
1523 ART Top Level Domain Holdings Limited
1524 JEEP Chrysler Group LLC.
1525 SCHOLARSHIPS Scholarships.com, LLC
1526 OSAKA Interlink Co., Ltd.
1527 FINAL Núcleo de Informação e Coordenação do Ponto BR – NIC.br
1528 NORTHWESTERNMUTUAL Northwestern Mutual Registry, LLC
1529 PET Afilias Limited
1530 HDFCBANK HDFC Bank Limited
1531 YOKOHAMA GMO Registry, Inc.
