.Taxi, Tennis, .MLS, .Immo: First 4 Community Priority Evaluations Fail

Four “community” applicants fail in bids to quash competition.

ICANN has published the results of the first four decided Community Priority Evaluations (CPE) for fresh 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.