Author Archives: DomainHack.er

Tue 18th March 2014
 
Written by DomainHack.er in DE and tagged
Neue Domain-Endungen – .berlin geht online - Anzeige Das Internet bekommt neue Adressen: Wer seine Seite nicht unter .guru und .singles anmelden will, kann sich nun die weltweit erste Städte-Domain sichern. Als erste Städte-Domain startet die neue Endung für Internetadressen .berlin an diesem Dienstag. Sie gehört damit zu den ersten 40 neuen Endungen, die bei offiziellen Registraren wie Strato oder 11 bestellt werden können. ... read more ...
 
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Disputa por nomes na web fica mais dura - Bradesco, Petrobras, Alpargatas, Gol e outras companhias brasileiras acionaram a Organização Mundial de Propriedade Intelectual (Ompi) contra o registro abusivo de suas marcas como nome de domínio na internet, prática conhecida como cybersquatting. A multiplicação de endereços de internet a partir do lançamento de 1,4 mil novos nomes de domínio genéricos de primeiro nível (gTLD) vai alterar ainda mais as estratégias de proteção das marcas em vigor na web, alerta a Ompi. Em 2013, ... read more ...
 
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.CLUB Domains and TLD Registry Team Up to Maximize Exposure in China - Registries Collaborate on Marketing Promotion of Their Popular IDN and ASCII gTLD's in China and Other Markets FORT LAUDERDALE, FL and BEIJING, CHINA--(Marketwired - Mar 17, 2014) - .CLUB Domains, LLC, the company formed to own and operate the new ".CLUB" top level domain, and TLD Registry, Ltd., which is the market leader for new Chinese-language top level domains, have agreed to collaborate on introducing some of the most popular new Internet extensions to the Chinese-speaking world. With half ... read more ...
 
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Top five tips when choosing a domain name - The hardest part in securing a domain name for the company is determining the actual words to use News | by CIOL Bureau MARKHAM, CANADA: When a company is searching for a domain name to use for a business website, In Front Media, a website design company, offer several suggestions to consider before making the final choice for a domain name. Len Doren, of In Front Media says, "Although we primarily design responsive WordPress ... read more ...
 
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New gTLDs will disrupt trademark protection strategies – WIPO - The introduction of new generic top-level domains (gTLD) will be responsible for a disruption in existing strategies for trademark protection on the web, according to the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO). During 2012 companies and organisations submitted over 1,900 applications for 1,400 distinct new domain names under the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers’ (ICANN) gTLD programme. “Trademark owners have been facing significant uncertainty in the ... read more ...
Mon 17th March 2014
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Berlin Becomes the World’s First City to Have its Own TLD: Starting Tuesday … - Berlin oriented organizations and individuals can freely register domains representing Germany's capital city - a thriving metropolis of 3.4 million people. Hakan Ali, founder and CMO of InterNetX, ... read more ...
 
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Registro na web preocupa empresas - Grandes empresas e marcas nacionais estão se armando para garantir sua proteção contra uma prática chamada Cybersquatting, a prática de registrar, traficar ou usar domínios na web com marcas comerciais já registradas por outras companhias. Cybersquatting vira preocupação de empresas. Foto: divulgação. Aurora registra receita de R$ 5,7 biTwitter fica no vermelho em 2013SoftExpert cresce 34% no lucro em ... read more ...
 
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First City New gTLD To Goes Live Tomorrow .Berlin - Arguably it is the extension that kicked this whole new gTLD thing off. On March 18, .BERLIN will launch into the General Availability phase. 777 years after the city was founded, any business, organization or individual can register Internet addresses under .BERLIN. Worldwide, this marks the first time a city receives its own new top-level domain. More than 3.4 million Berliners will be given a new home on the net. According to InternetX, “Even during the pre-registration phase, .BERLIN was ... read more ...
 
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You Can Bid On The Super Premium Live Domain Auction For The Chinese IDN … -   TLD Registry the company behind the new gTLD for the Chinese IDN for Online (.在线) as well as the registry for the new gTLD (中文网) (Dot Chinese Website) will be holding a live auction in Macau starting at 11 a.m. Friday local Macau Time (03:00 UTC) March 21, 2014 (Thursday March 20th at 11pm EST), and Sedo.com will be taking online bids for those that cannot be in attendance. As far as I know this is only the second time that Sedo is allowing for online bidding from a live auction ... read more ...
 
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Trademark holders fear ‘cybersquatters’ as Web names grow - GENEVA – The mass expansion of Internet domain names could cause havoc for the defense of trademarks in cyberspace, the U.N.’s intellectual property body warned Monday. “We have this extraordinary expansion that is going on,” said Francis Gurry, head of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), which oversees global rules against “cybersquatting.” “That is going to have an impact, which is likely to be significant, on trademark protection,” Gurry ... read more ...
 
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Canyon.bike Lost In 1st UDRP Decision On A New gTLD Domain Name - Canyon Bicycles GmbH of Koblenz, Germany, just won the first UDRP decision on a new gTLD domain name, canyon.bike (all other decision up to now have been URS cases) The one member panel found that when it comes to new gTLD’s the will take the entire domain name, both on the left and right of the dot in determining whether the domain name infringes on a trademark: The Panel finds that, given the advent of multiple new gTLD domain names, panels may determine that it is appropriate to include ... read more ...
 
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Nouvelles extensions Internet : URS ou UDRP ? - J’ai hésité à plusieurs reprises avant de choisir le titre de cet article. J’hésitais entre celui indiqué ci-dessus (plus Corporate) et les deux ci-après: “Nouveaux gTLDs: si j’étais un cybersquatteur...” et, “Nouveaux gTLDs: l’URS, le nouvel outil des cybersquatteurs”. Dans la “vraie vie”, j’aurais opté pour le troisième titre car les marques ont vraiment du souci à se faire dans les prochaines années. ... read more ...
 
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Expansion of Domain Name Space May Shift Trademark Protection Strategies … – ag-IP - GENEVA - The unprecedented expansion of the Internet domain name space, until now dominated by .com and a handful of other generic top-level domains (gTLDs), is likely to disrupt existing strategies for trademark protection on the web, a press release by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) stated.   “Trademark owners have been facing significant uncertainty in the expansion of the Domain Name System (DNS) while at the same time working with reduced protection budgets,” said WIPO ... read more ...
 
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Web revolution could hit trademarks - 2014-03-17 09:32 (AP) Multimedia   ·   User Galleries   ·   News in Pictures Send us your pictures  Â·  Send us your stories Geneva - The mass expansion of internet domain names could cause havoc for the defence of trademarks in cyberspace, the UN's intellectual property body warned on Monday."We have this extraordinary expansion ... read more ...
 
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Web domain name revolution could hit trademark defense - GENEVA - The mass expansion of Internet domain names could cause havoc for the defense of trademarks in cyberspace, the UN's intellectual property body warned on Monday. "We have this extraordinary expansion that is going on," said Francis Gurry, head of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), which oversees global rules against cybersquatting. "That is going to have an impact, which is likely to be significant, on trademark protection. The exact nature of the impact, we aren't ... read more ...
Sun 16th March 2014
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The first city in the world with its own domain name is Berlin - Video: New 'Fairy Tail' anime 1st trailer Berlin first city to get its full name as own Internet domain Berlin - According to DPA News, Berlin can use its own Internet suffix. Thisis technically what is known as a generic top-level domain (gTLD). For Berlin to become the first city came about from an agreement between Berlin's local government and ICANN, the US-based organisation that co-ordinates global Internet ... read more ...
 
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How Are ICANN’s New TLDs Doing? - ICANN has now accepted several hundred new top level domains (TLDs) and some of them are now open for general registration. I have sized up for zone file access, so I can download daily snapshots of most of the active zones, and I'm making daily counts of the number of names in each zone. Here's the 20 largest new zones, and the hundred most popular names in the new zones, as of today. Once have more data, I'll make up some charts. By John Levine, Author, Consultant Speaker. More blog ... read more ...
 
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New gTLD Domain Registrations Pass The 250000 Mark - According to ntldstats.com, the number of new gTLD domain name registration has now passed the 250,000 mark. .Guru is still leading the pack with almost 45,000 registrations  but  .Photography is closing in passing 28,000 registrations. .Tips and .Today have about the same amount of registrations which are quickly approaching 15,000 each. .Technology and .Director each have just over 10,000 registrations. Of all fully launched new gTLD’s .Tattoo seems to have the least with just over 1,200 ... read more ...
 
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Il passo indietro di Obama che può cambiare Internet - Un’agenzia del governo Usa, la Ntia, ha annunciato che – se tutto andrà come auspicato – a fine settembre 2015 trasferirà il controllo di Icann a un nuovo referente ancora da definire. Icann sta per Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers ed è una piccola azienda non-profit con sede a Los Angeles.   Dal 1998 Icann coordina, sotto contratto col governo Usa, una serie di attività che permettono ad Internet di funzionare. In particolare, 1. Icann gestisce il grande «elenco ... read more ...
 
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New TLD’s Increase Commerical Appeal - We’re all familiar with those top-level domains (TLD’s) that accompany most websites these days:.com,.org, even.net, but how much do these TLD’s really tell us about the website we are visiting? These web suffixes are supposed to tell us about the general sort of location we are going to. Whether it be commercial, an organization, or even a network, TLD’s are there to inform us a little bit more about the overall category. The problem facing today’s humble businessman, however, is the rapidly ... read more ...
Sat 15th March 2014
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Afilias Joins Internet Technical Leaders in Welcoming IANA Globalization Progress - DUBLIN--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Afilias today announced its support for the statements by the Internet technical organizations responsible for coordination of the Internet infrastructure (IETF, IAB, ccTLD ROs, ICANN, ISOC and W3C) regarding the announcement by the U.S. government of the suggested changes related to the IANA functions contract. As a TLD Registry Operator and a leading registry technology services ... read more ...
Fri 14th March 2014
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ICANN Considers .sucks - The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), the folks who are responsible for approving and regulating Internet domains such as .com, .biz and .net, are considering whether or not to add .sucks to the list of approved domains. Over the past year, in response to the explosive growth around the world in Internet users and domain registrations, ICANN has added over 100 generic top-level domain names or gTLD. Some of the new domains which are now available for sale include ... read more ...
 
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Sen. Rockefeller Doesn’t Want Us To Have A .Sucks Domain Name - [ Technology] In 2012, ICANN let corporations, organizations and individuals apply for generic top level domain names. Google and Amazon were especially aggressive in applying for the new gTLDs with both companies applying for domains like .fun, .app and .amazon. There were, however, some more bizarre gTLD applications and one senator has taken offense to one of them. Market Watch reports that Sen. Jay Rockefeller is not a fan of the application ... read more ...
 
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Sen. Rockefeller Wants ICANN To Block ‘.Sucks’ TLDs - Another legislator has weighed in on governing the internet. This time, it's not so much for "the children" as it is for the poor, oppressed corporations of the world. Sen. Jay Rockefeller, the West Virginia Democrat, strongly suggested that the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, better known as ICANN, the body in charge of approving Web site domain names, should reject a proposal to allow ‘sucks’ as a new generic top level domain, referred to as gTLD. In a letter to the ... read more ...