{"id":79217,"date":"2013-06-01T09:55:52","date_gmt":"2013-06-01T07:55:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=79217"},"modified":"2013-06-01T13:45:27","modified_gmt":"2013-06-01T11:45:27","slug":"joburg-passed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/79217-joburg-passed.html","title":{"rendered":".Joburg domain passed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The .Joburg generic top-level domain (gTLD) was passed without contention by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) on Friday (31 May 2013).<\/p>\n<p>UniForum SA (NPC), trading as ZA Central Registry, applied for the .Joburg domain, which has now passed the \u201cInitial Evaluation\u201d phase.<\/p>\n<p>The Initial Evaluation\u00a0phase includes background screening, string similarity, DNS stability, geographic names, registry services and the technical capabilities of the applicant.<\/p>\n<p>The .Joburg application now moves to the pre-delegation phase (in the case where no objections were filed or string contention concerns raised), which can take around 2 months to complete.<\/p>\n<p>Other prominent gTLDs which have been passed in this phase include .music, .careers, .hotels, .game, .fashion, .law, .pay, .love, .art, .vodka and .pizza.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on domain names<\/h3>\n<p><a title=\"New .za domains on the way\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/65138-new-za-domains-on-the-way.html\"><strong>New .za domains on the way<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/52561-dstv-mtn-may-get-own-internet-domains.html\"><strong>DStv, MTN may get own Internet domains<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/52723-dstv-and-mtn-internet-domain-plans.html\"><strong>DStv and MTN Internet domain plans<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/50481-plan-your-joburg-capetown-and-durban-domains.html\"><strong>Plan your .joburg, .capetown and .durban domains<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The .Joburg generic top-level domain has been passed without contention by ICANN on Friday<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":77802,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[35,1225,19458,9095,11809,11811],"class_list":["post-79217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-internet","tag-headline","tag-icann","tag-joburg","tag-uniforum","tag-uniforum-sa","tag-za-central-registry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79217"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79217"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79217\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79227,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79217\/revisions\/79227"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}