Four “community” applicants fail in bids to quash competition.
ICANN has published the results of the first four decided Community Priority Evaluations (CPE) for new top level domain names. All four failed to pass.
Applicants that self-selected themselves as “community” applicants for top level domain names can go through this process to see if they qualify. If they do qualify as a community under the requirements, they will effectively kill off all non-community competitors for their strings.
To prevail, applicants need to score 14 out of 16 points with four points each for community establishment, nexus between proposed string and the community, registration policies, and community endorsement. Each category breaks down further.
Here are the results of the first four:
.Taxi by Taxi Pay GmbH, 6/16
.Tennis by Tennis Australia Ltd 11/16
.MLS by The Canadian Real Estate Association (CREA), 11/16
.IMMO by StartingDot, 4/16
The standards to pass CPE are both detailed and rather high. I don’t expect many surprises like we saw with Community Objections.
confer says
Can the decisions be appealed?
The .tennis and .mls examples are both close to the 14/16 threshold. Can either decision be appealed; or can they re-submit in hopes of achieving the required 14/16 score?
Or is it a “1-shot” deal?
Andrew Allemann says
They don’t seem all that close to me. Regardless, I suppose they can file a board reconsideration request but we all know how those have turned out.
confer says
“They don’t seem all that close to me”
It’s all relative I guess…
NOT CLOSE:
– looking at just the 11/16 scores, I’d agree that neither seem close;
SOMEWHAT CLOSE:
– however, both .tennis & .mls are just 3 points shy of the 14/16 “pass” threshold;
CLOSE
– both are certainly ‘close’ as compared to the .taxi & .immo cases (neither close at all with scores of 6/16).
🙂