Author Archives: DomainHack.er

Thu 31st July 2014
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ICANN can’t hand over Iran’s internet, bomb victims told - Linux and AIX Bare-Metal Recovery Webinar It's not possible to hand over Iran's internet because it doesn't own it, a Washington DC court has been told in a mind-boggling submission to terrorism victims.Lawyers for nine US citizens injured in an Iran-financed bombing in Jerusalem back in 1997 have turned to the internet in an effort to recoup millions of dollars awarded to them against the government of Iran more than a decade ago. ... read more ...
 
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1st Day Totals For New gTLD’s: .Reisen 2262; .University 1340; .Toys 1320 … - Several new gTLD’s went into its first day of general availability GA) yesterday and according to ntldstats.com,here are the number of registrations after the first day of GA which include all Sunrise applications and those domains registered in the Early Access Program (EAP) Once again the total for this weeks new gTLD are less than impressive: .Reisen 2,262; .University 1,340 .Toys 1,320 .Town 590 Reisen is the German word for Travel. There are now over 1.75 million new gTLD’s registered with ... read more ...
 
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Vergabe der neuen Top-Level-Domain – Köln auf den Punkt gebracht - Köln.  Die Auffindbarkeit im Internet gilt heute als wichtiges Qualitätskriterium für einen gelungenen Online-Auftritt. Was für Unternehmen selbstverständlich sein sollte, gilt längst auch für öffentliche Institutionen, Vereine oder den ambitionierten Privatmann. Damit sie künftig ihre regionale Verbundenheit zum Ausdruck bringen und besser für ihre Zwecke vermarkten können, forciert die Stadt über Netcologne und den Verein Köln plus Partner daher seit Monaten ... read more ...
Wed 30th July 2014
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Report: New TLDs Cause Confusion - LOS ANGELES —  As a flood of new top-level domains (TLDs) enters the marketplace, providing websites with the equivalent of vanity license plates, a new report suggests it’s all too confusing for consumers and businesses. Today’s announcement of ICM’s official go-ahead to launch the .SEX TLD punctuates the perceptual problems that the rash of new domains is bringing to the global Internet arena, where hundreds of new TLDs, such as .bike, .club and .today — and yes, .sex — reveal ... read more ...
 
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Countries don’t own their Internet domains, ICANN says - The Internet domain name for a country doesn't belong to that country -- nor to anyone, according to ICANN. Plaintiffs who successfully sued Iran, Syria and North Korea as sponsors of terrorism want to seize the three countries' ccTLDs (country code top-level domains) as part of financial judgments against them. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, which oversees the Internet, says they can't do that because ccTLDs aren't even property.After the plaintiffs filed papers to ICANN ... read more ...
 
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ICANN’s .IR Response Opens Legal Can of Worms - ICANN has filed its initial response to writs of attachment issued by U.S. Courts that seek to have ICANN transfer control of the country code top level domains (ccTLDs) of Iran, Syria and North Korea to plaintiffs in various legal actions. The lawsuits were brought under a U.S. law that permits victims of terrorism and their family survivors to seek the assets of governments that provided support or direction of the terrorist acts. As expected, ICANN vigorously opposed the court orders and ... read more ...
 
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ICANN to plaintiffs: No, you can’t have all of Iran’s domains - Further ReadingIn sudden announcement, US to give up control of DNS root zoneSigns point to fallout from NSA spying that lead to "multi-stakeholder" model.The global body in charge of domain names, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), has asked a federal court to prevent the handover of the country code top-level domain names (ccTLD) of North Korea, Syria, and Iran as part of a terrorism lawsuit dating back over a decade. Those would include the .KP, .SY ... read more ...
 
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Interlink Co., Ltd. Wins Community Priority Evaluation For The New gTLD .Osaka - Interlink Co., Ltd. Application for The New gTLD .Osaka just won its Community Priority Evaluation .Osaka has prevailed with its Community Priority Evaluation application getting 15 of the maximum 16 points. This means that GMO’s application for .Osaka will not move forward. Here is part of the decision: “Thank you for your participation in the New gTLD Program. After careful consideration and extensive review of the information provided in your application, including documents of support, the ... read more ...
 
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More from ICANN Court Filing: Not Only Are ccTLD’s Not Property But They Don’t … -                 Earlier we wrote about ICANN filing several motions to quash a federal court ruling that ccTLD registries could be seized to satisfy judgements against the underling country saying ccTLD’s are not considered property and therefore it can’t be attached by plaintiffs. We read through some more of the 289 page memorandum ICANN filed  in support of the motions and ICANN is position is only are not the ccTLD registries not property but the ccTLD’s don’t even belong to ... read more ...
 
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ICANN Responds To Seizure Order of The .IR Registry, saying ccTLD’s Are Not … -                   A couple of weeks ago we told you that the attorney for the victims of a terrorist attack got a federal court to order the seizure of the .IR domain registry which is the ccTLD for Iran to help satisfy a judgement the victims  held  against the republic of Iran. As first reported by webpronews.com,  (The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) told a U.S. federal court in the District of Columbia, that ccTLD (country code Top-Level Domains ) can’t be ... read more ...
 
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.XXX Operator ICM Registry Wins Right to Operate .Sex - MIAMI — ICM Registry, the operator of .xxx, .adult and .porn, has won the right to operate the .sex gTLD. Internet Marketing Solutions Ltd., a competing applicant for .sex, has withdrawn its application, leaving ICM Registry's bid as the sole applicant for .sex. Stuart Lawley, CEO of ICM Registry, told XBIZ that his company acquired the rights to .sex in a transaction for the gTLD.  The agreement "is subject to confidentiality but in essence we bought the other applicant out, and he has no ... read more ...
 
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ICANN fights legal moves to seize Iran, Syria and North Korea top-level web … -

The UK legalises CD ripping, in some circumstances

Via: v3.co.uk

 
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ICANN tells US Court that ccTLDs are not property and thus cannot be seized - The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has told a U.S. federal court in the District of Columbia, that a country code Top-Level Domain (ccTLD) cannot be considered “property,” and thus cannot be attached by plaintiffs in a lawsuit, who are trying to obtain the assets of countries that they argued have supported terrorism. “We filed a Motion to Quash in the US federal court today, to ensure that the court has the essential information about how the ... read more ...
 
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ICANN To Court: ccTLDs Aren’t Property - [ Technology] ICANN (The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) told a U.S. federal court in the District of Columbia, that a ccTLD (country code Top-Level Domain ) can’t be considered property. For this reason, it says, it can’t be attached by plaintiffs in a lawsuit, when they’re trying to obtain assets of countries they say have supported terrorism. ICANN General Counsel and Secretary John Jeffrey explained, “We filed a ... read more ...
 
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ICM Registry Operator of .XXX Wins Rights to The New gTLD .Sex - ICM Registry the operator of the .XXX registry has won the right to operate the .Sex new gTLD. The other applicant for .Sex, Internet Marketing Solutions Limited has withdrawn their application, leaving ICM’s the lone applicant for .Sex. ICM also is the only applicant for the new gTLD’s .adult and .porn The only caveat on the new gTLD’s .Sex, .Adult and .Porn is that just a few weeks ago, seemingly out of nowhere, the New gTLD Committee of ICANN commented that they might be sensitive strings ... read more ...
 
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Minds + Machines confirms client has won .broadway gTLD - No investment advice The Company is a publisher. You understand and agree that no content published on the Site constitutes a recommendation that any particular security, portfolio of securities, transaction, or investment strategy is suitable or advisable for any specific person. You further understand that none of the information providers or their affiliates will advise you personally concerning the nature, potential, advisability, value or suitability of any particular security, portfolio ... read more ...
Tue 29th July 2014
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Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP | Five Key Takeaways from ICANN 50 in London -

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Via: ca.linexlegal.com

 
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A Financial Back-Up to Win .WINE? - Still want to protect wine Geographical Indications (GIs)? A hot potato! Where the bucket ends is still to be found and the launching of both .WINE and .VIN new gTLDs is still an issue. At least some of the three applicants are following the ICANN new gTLD applicant guidebook, working with parties interested in bringing better protection mechanism to protect wine GIs. There seems to have been an attempt which has not worked: meetings between applicants and wine institutions, with the European ... read more ...
Mon 28th July 2014
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Independent Endorsement of Dot Chinese Online & Dot Chinese Website - TLD Registry's Dot Chinese Online (.在线) and Dot Chinese Website (.中文网) are garnering more attention in the blogosphere, as demonstrated by a flattering new FairWinds Partners blog post. FairWinds' Founding Partner, Phil Lodico, mentions several business, social and cultural benefits that registrants enjoy with fully-Chinese domain names. One of the benefits raised by Mr. Lodico includes the fact that businesses will be exposed to the massive Chinese internet user population ... read more ...
 
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Demand Media – The Times They are a Changin’ - “This is the most important and exciting change in the internet in a long, long time. Maybe since the beginning of the modern internet.” - Ben Fried, Google’s Chief Information Officer (source) Investors should take note every time a Google exec goes on record saying they are “incredibly excited” about something because most of the time, there’s a good reason for it. Which is why when I heard the above quote at Google’s I/O, I decided to dig in. And what I found was a truly great business ... read more ...
 
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Website name booking in Hindi proposed from Aug 15 for Rs 350 - New Delhi: Individuals of companies which are interested in owning a website with domain name in Hindi language would be able to book the name in Hindi script from next month. "Domain (website) name booking in Hindi script is proposed to be launched from August 15 subject to approval from higher authorities. Each domain name will cost Rs 350 and the TLD(top level domain) will be .Bharat (in Hindi script)," National Internet Exchange of India CEO Govind told PTI. The name would ... read more ...
 
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Generic top-level domains: the gold rush is on - The biggest gold rush since the creation of the internet is in full swing. The creation of new top-level domains is the largest expansion of the internet ever, opening up a new world of opportunity to stake a claim to newly available names that will be immensely valuable in the future. The land grab for virtual real estate is back, and this time it is millions of times larger. On June 20, 2011, ICANN’s board decided to remove nearly all the restrictions on generic top-level domains ... read more ...
Sun 27th July 2014
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Tech Radar: “The new domain name system is causing problems for brands” - Tech Radar published an article todayon new gtlds and the problems brands are already having with protecting their brand. The article references a study from Brad Newberg at Reed Smith, the sample study took a look at 20 brands in the bicycle industry and how fast some of their names were taken by those not affiliated with the company. Canyon.bike is referenced as to being regged, “seven seconds after it became publicly available”. The article goes on to tell brand owners to be more proactive ... read more ...
 
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WEB – .Email, .Club, .Academy: e tu, di che dominio sei? Ecco quali … - 11 Internet, il principale provider di web hosting a livello mondiale, rivela quali sono i domini di primo livello (TLD, ovvero le estensioni che compongono l’ultima parte dell’indirizzo di un sito) più richiesti dagli italiani. In vetta alla classifica c’è .email, seguito da .club e .academy, a dimostrare un desiderio costante di comunicare, divertirsi e di non smettere mai di imparare. Analizzando la classifica dei 20 domini maggiormente richiesti emerge la passione degli italiani ... read more ...
Sat 26th July 2014
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Best of TechRadar Pro: Tech politics, a braver Microsoft, ICANN’s TLDs and … - Why tech is on the verge of changing the political process foreverIt's a bleak time to be young. The 30-something-and-below generation is facing huge debts, long hours, low pay and an ever-disappearing retirement age.The cost of higher education in 2014 would've been enough to buy a three bedroom house 30 years ago. When a graduate enters the workforce, they can either look forward to being used as a political football, or a punching bag when one of the three main parties' PR machines needs "tough ... read more ...