Christmas came early for Frank Schilling’s Uniregistry whose new gTLD application for .Christmas was one of the 89 to pass ICANN’s Initial Evaluation (IE) today
Other application passing IE of note today were:
The Gergraphic application by the city of Madrid for .Madrid
The Brand applications for .Nokia by the cell phone maker; .Xfinity submitted by Comcast; .Dupont by the global conglomerate of the same name; .Brother filed by the company best known for their printers and .Datsun filed by Nissan (I didn’t know they still made those) the watch maker .Swatch, .AVIANCA the Latin American Airline; .Raid as in the bug spray and .Clubmed as in its time for a cocktail.
Some application for generic terms passing today were the application of Demand Media, Inc. for .Mom and .RIP; Famous Four who is the sole applicant for .Faith; Donuts who is the sole applicant for .Cheap and .Mortgage; Microsoft Corporation application for .Docs and the generic that many use to some up the whole new gTLD program .WTF.
.Ping also passed IE today, not the gold club manufacturer’s application but the application filed by Radix.
For the first time in many weeks no application was approved which was passed over in a previous week and no application that went through IE this week got the dreaded Extended Evaluation tag.
Through today ICANN has gone through IE for all applications with a prioritization number of 1,299 and has made decisions on 1,190 of those.
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1201 DOCTOR DotMedico TLD Inc.
1202 CPA Trixy Canyon
1203 FORUM Fegistry, LLC
1204 ACO ACO Severin Ahlmann GmbH & Co. KG
1205 MBA Your Dot Phd, Inc.
1207 MOM United TLD Holdco Ltd.
1208 SBS SPECIAL BROADCASTING SERVICE CORPORATION
1209 FROGANS OP3FT
1210 RIP United TLD Holdco Ltd.
1211 CHANGIAIRPORT Changi Airport Group (Singapore) Pte. Ltd
1212 TIROL punkt Tirol GmbH
1213 HOMESENSE The TJX Companies, Inc.
1214 SWATCH The Swatch Group Ltd
1215 HOTEL Top Level Domain Holdings Limited
1216 ICE IntercontinentalExchange, Inc.
1217 REALTY Fegistry, LLC
1218 WEB Ruby Glen, LLC
1219 FUN Oriental Trading Company, Inc.
1220 CLUBMED Club Méditerranée S.A.
1221 RIL Reliance Industries Limited
1222 CREDITCARD Binky Frostbite, LLC
1223 DATSUN NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.
1224 NETBANK COMMONWEALTH BANK OF AUSTRALIA
1225 JMP Matrix IP LLC
1226 FERRERO Ferrero Trading Lux S.A.
1230 HOCKEY dot Hockey Limited
1231 CONTACT Top Level Spectrum, Inc.
1233 AVIANCA Aerovias del Continente Americano S.A.
