95 new gTLD application passed ICANN Initial Evaluation (IE) today and 2 applications are headed for the dreaded Extended Evaluation.
Leading the way passing IE, today are the Geographical applications for .Africa; .Miami; .Amsterdam.
Beyond that a couple of very interesting new gTLD passed IE today .Bible which was filed by the American Bible Society and .Adult which was filed by ICM Registry the operator of the .XXX extension
Several Brand applications passed IE today.
Applications for car makers .Landrover; .Dodge, .Jaguar and .Suzuki and .Chrysler all passed IE today.
Other brands passing today include Amazon’s application for .Amazon and .Zappos; Best Buy’s application for .bestbuy; Toshiba’s application for .Toshiba,
The other big winner of the day was Merchant Law Group who had several of its applications which had previously been passed over which passed IE.
The two applications that went to Extended Evaluation were for .BCG filed by The Boston Consulting Group, Inc and the application for .GED filed by GED Domains LLC which owns the GED Test.
With today’s results ICANN is through all application numbers with a prioritization number of 1,200 with 1,100 having either passed, failed or qualified for extended evaluation.
Here are all the applications that passed ICANN IE today:
…307 AFRICA UniForum SA (NPC) trading as Registry.Africa ZA
676 CLOUD Charleston Road Registry Inc. US
696 OOO INFIBEAM INCORPORATION LIMITED IN
722 SUZUKI SUZUKI MOTOR CORPORATION JP
781 APP Charleston Road Registry Inc. US
793 MARKETING Tucows TLDs Inc. CA
825 CORP Dot Registry LLC US
864 LLP Dot Registry LLC US
891 BLOG Merchant Law Group LLP CA
964 INC GMO Registry, Inc. JP
977 BOSCH Robert Bosch GMBH DE
982 MAIL GMO Registry, Inc. JP
985 JAGUAR Jaguar Land Rover Ltd GB
991 TOSHIBA TOSHIBA Corporation JP
1027 LAW Merchant Law Group LLP CA
1029 LOVE Merchant Law Group LLP CA
1101 REDSTONE Redstone Haute Couture Co., Ltd. CN
1102 INSTITUTE Outer Maple, LLC US
1103 WEBSITE Top Level Domain Holdings Limited VG
1104 AIRTEL Bharti Airtel Limited IN
1105 BESTBUY BBY Solutions, Inc. US
1106 EDUCATION Brice Way, LLC US
1107 CHARITY Corn Lake, LLC US
1108 SHOUJI QIHOO 360 TECHNOLOGY CO. LTD. CN
1109 ALSTOM ALSTOM FR
1110 MULTICHOICE MultiChoice Africa (Proprietary) Limited ZA
1111 REIT National Association of Real Estate Investment Trusts, Inc. US
1114 BIBLE American Bible Society US
1116 HOLIDAY Goose Woods, LLC US
1117 DEUTSCHEPOST Deutsche Post AG DE
1119 CHRYSLER Chrysler Group LLC.
