Independent Review Process: Difference between revisions

| ICANN’s Price Cap Decision was inconsistent with the ICANN Bylaws and Article III of the Articles of Incorporation. Each party shall bear its own legal and expert witness fees and expenses, except that the administrative costs of the ICDR, totaling $13,825.00 and the IRP Panel members’ along with the Emergency Panelist’s fees and expenses, totaling $ 841,894.76 shall be borne entirely by ICANN. ICANN shall reimburse Namecheap the sum of $58,750.00 <br /> <br />

| ICANN acted contrary to its Articles and Bylaws, breaching the Guidebook and Auction Rules through its arrangements with Verisign<br />However, the Panel denied the Claimant’s request to disqualify NDC’s bid for .WEB and proceed with contracting the Registry greement for .WEB with the Claimant, in exchange for a price to be specified by the Panel and paid by the Claimant.

| Asian Green is the prevailing party; ICANN acted inconsistently with its core values by lacking transparency and placing applications on hold and shall reinburse Asian Green $93,000+

| the ICANN Board’s 12 October 2014 Decision and Action (as preceded by its February 2014 Decision and Action) is a “decision or action by the Board” that is “inconsistent with the Articles of Incorporation of Bylaws” of ICANN and “materially affected” the Claimant. However, Its ability to do so must be preserved as being in the best interests of the Internet community as a whole. ICANN shall not be responsible for bearing all costs of the proceedings. Instead, pursuant to Article 11 of the Supplementary Rules, the IRP Panel determines that no costs shall be allocated to the Claimant as the prevailing party. Consequently, each Party shall bear its own costs in respect of this IRP Panel proceeding.

| ICANN failed to consider evidence of bias in the Expert Determination, should reconsider its reconsideration decisions, has to reimburse claimant

| Little Birch LLC and Minds + Machines Group Limited & Despegar Online SRL, Donuts Inc., Famous Four Media Limited, Fegistry LLC, and Radix FZC

| .eco, .hotel

| IRP Request made in relation to the .hotel gTLD by Despegar Online SRL, Donuts Inc., Famous Four Media Limited, Fegistry LLC and Radix FZC is denied. ICANN was the prevailing party in the .hotel IRP;  IRP Request made in relation to .eco gTLD by Little Birch, LLC and Minds + Machines Group Limited is denied; ICANN as the prevailing party in the .eco IRP. Declares that the fees and expenses of the IRP Panel members, totalling US$113,351.52, and the fees and expenses of the ICDR, totalling US$11,500.00, shall be born as to half by ICANN, and as to the other half collectively by Despegar Online SRL, Donuts Inc., Famous Four Media Limited, Fegistry LLC, Radix FZC, Little Birch, LLC and Minds +Machines Group Limited ("Applicants"). Therefore, ICANN shall reimburse the Applicants collectively the sum of $5,750.00 representing that portion of said fees and expenses in excess of the apportioned costs previously incurred by the Applicants<br />

| Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC)

| the Claimant Gulf Cooperation Council (“GCC”) was the prevailing Party. ICANN was inconsistent with the Articles of Incorporation and Bylaws. However, the ICANN Board should take no further action on the ".persiangulf" gTLD application, and in<br />specific not sign the registry agreement with Asia Green. The IRP awarded all costs to the GCC as the prevailing Party.

| .sports, .rugby

| ICANN prevailed; Donuts beared all costs except ICANN's own legal fees<br />

| .inc, .llc, .llp

| Dot Registry is the prevailing party; ICANN Board failed to apply the proper standards in its reconsiderations and acted inconsistently with the AoI and Bylaws and ICANN beared all the costs of the IRP

| Merck

| ICANN is the prevailing party; Merck beared all costs

| Vistaprint Limited

| .webs

| .thai

| Booking.com

| ICANN is the prevailing party; however, the costs were split evenly between the parties and ICANN should consider the string similarity issues raised ahead of the next round of the New gTLD Program

| DCA Trust

| .africa

| the Board violated ICANN’s Articles of Incorporation, Bylaws and the Applicant Guidebook by: <br />• Discriminating against DCA and wrongfully assisting the AUC and ZACR to obtain rights to the .AFRICA gTLD;<br />• Failing to apply ICANN’s procedures in a neutral and objective manner, with procedural fairness when it accepted the GAC Objection Advice against DCA; and<br />• Failing to apply its procedures in a neutral and objective manner, with procedural fairness when it approved the BGC’s<br />recommendation not to reconsider the NGPC’s acceptance of the GAC Objection Advice against DCA.<br />DCA is the prevailing party and entitled to its costs. The IRP recommended that ICANN cease all preparations to delegate the .AFRICA gTLD to ZACR; permit DCA’s application to proceed through the remainder<br />of the new gTLD application process; and compensate DCA for the costs it has incurred as a result of ICANN’s violations of its Articles of Incorporation, Bylaws and AGB.

| Manwin Licensing International

| .xxx

| ICM Registry, LLC is the prevailing party