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Fri 9th August 2013
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Gastkommentar: Trademark Clearinghouse - Parallel zu den Vorbereitungen für das Programm zur Einführung der neuen generischen Top-Level-Domains (gTLD) will die dafür zuständige Internet Corporation of Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) gleichzeitig die Rechte von Markeninhabern schützen. gTLD sind jene neuen Domain-Endungen, die zusätzlich zu den bereits etablierten TLD wie .com, .net und .org auf den Internetmarkt kommen (etwa music., blog, .web, .shop .hotel. etc). Bei ... read more ...
Thu 8th August 2013
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Search by keyword - You might have seen some articles recently about developments in the general top-level domain (gTLD) space (we previously posted about ICANN’s new gTLD program here and here). Last week, the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) Panel handed down its decision in response to a Legal Rights Objection, which will allow Telstra Corporation Limited (Telstra) to operate the gTLD .yellowpages. We acted for Telstra. Background All internet users are now accustomed to seeing a range of existing ... read more ...
 
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Verisign’s New Letter To NTIA On New gTLD’s: Its Important to Differentiate … - In a letter send by Verisign today to the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA), U.S. Department of Commerce; Verisign made it clear it is ready, willing and able to delegate up to 20 new gTLD’s to the root upon request of the NTIA but it also  made clear that it doesn’t advise that the 1,000 new gTLD strings a year get delegated to the root saying: “The introduction of delegations of new gTLDs into the root zone, it is important to differentiate between “ability” ... read more ...
 
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Tucows: Sold .Marketing & .Media New gTLD Applications For “A Substantial Sum” - In its earnings call today Tucows.com (TCX)  said that they sold two of their new gTLD applications for a “Substantial Sum” that will be reflected in its  YummyNames.com subsidiary revenue in the third quarter of 2013. Tucows.com which was one of the applicants for .Media and .Marketing but withdrew their application for both, and combined with Unregistry’s withdrawn for the same two strings, it left Donuts as the sole applicant for .Media and .Marketing. It has been previously reported ... read more ...
 
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3 More .Brand New gTLD’s are Withdrawn: Now 108 Pulled - Three more .Brand new gTLD application have been withdrawn on the ICANN site. Microsoft withdrew it applications for .Skydrive which had a prioritization number of 386. Microsoft described the application for .Skydrive as follows: “The SkyDrive® hosting service allows users, at no charge, to store files and to access their personal files from any computer with an internet connection. SkyDrive users can share photos and files or collaborate on documents with contacts Over 100 million people ... read more ...
 
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Directv Beat Dish Network As Legal Rights Objection On New gTLD .Direct Is … - The second Legal Right Objection been upheld by a three member WIPO panel this time by The DirecTV Group Inc. against its competitor Dish DBS The applied-for gTLD string .Direct. Directv did not apply for the new gTLD .Direct, but its main competitor Dish Network did and Directv filed this objection. The only other new gTLD application for .direct was filed by Half Trail, LLC a Donuts company. The WIPO Panel Decision can be best summarized by this paragraph in the ruling: “The Panel rejects ... read more ...
 
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new gTLDs .HOME und .CORP vor dem Aus? - Die new gTLDs .HOME und .CORP könnten möglicherweise aus dem Programm fliegen. Eine Studie im Auftrag der ICANN will herausgefunden haben, dass die TLDs eventuell Probleme mit dem Domain Name System verursachen könnten. Die am Dienstag veröffentliche Untersuchung stufte die beiden TLDs als "hohe Risikofaktoren" ein. Die Autoren der Studie fürchten, dass die TLDs mit Domain-Endungen aus internen Netzwerken kollidieren könnten. Die ICANN empfiehlt, die Bewerbungen von .HOME und .CORP deswegen ... read more ...
 
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What Types of New TLDs Are Being Released? - (Ping! Zine Web Tech Magazine) - With the introduction of new Top Level Domains (TLDs) later this year, the internet will have many new domain possibilities, which can be divided into four larger groups. Next to generic TLDs, there will be geographic TLDs, domains for different communities, and domains that can be used for special brands and organizations. With new TLDs, you can find new domains for your project or company that can easily be recognized. Generic TLDs: These ... read more ...
 
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RBC: Demand Media New gTLD Initiative Could Be Worth More Than Its … - RBC issued an Equity Research Report  today on Demand Media, Inc., the day after Demand Media, Inc, reported its second quarter earnings. Demand Media announced during the earnings report and the earnings call that followed that Google’s Search algorithm continues to impact Demand’s owned and operated site traffic negatively and to a greater extent than captured in estimates. Shares of Demand are down over 5% in early trading today at $6.21 as time of publication although they hit as low ... read more ...
 
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What Happens Beyond Dot Com? Litigation! - Web addresses are undergoing major changes this year. Familiar domain suffixes like .com, .net, .edu, and .org will soon be accompanied by new ones like .pizza, or .google, or .portland. Why? Because the organization that is more-or-less responsible for running the Web, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN ), is claiming that the current market is overcrowded with domain names. ICANN says this prevents smaller companies with weaker Internet presences from obtaining ... read more ...
 
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new gTLDs .HOME und .CORP vor dem Aus? – Live - InterNetX Logo 08.08.2013 12:38:35 - Laut einer Studie im Auftrag der ICANN könnten die TLDs mit Endungen aus internen Netzen kollidieren. Insgesamt stuft die Untersuchung rund 20 Prozent der new gTLDs als risikobelastet ein. Die Erkenntnisse könnten sich auf das gesamte Programm auswirken.   (live-PR.com) - Die new gTLDs .HOME und .CORP könnten möglicherweise aus dem Programm fliegen. Eine Studie im Auftrag der ICANN will herausgefunden ... read more ...
 
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Demand Media Reports Second Quarter 2013 Results – SYS - <![CDATA[ ]]> Demand Media, Inc. (NYSE:DMD), a leading digital media and domain services company, today reported financial results for the second quarter ended June 30, 2013. “Demand Media accelerated its content commerce strategy in Q2 with the acquisition of e-commerce marketplace Society6, complementing our content platform as well as our other commerce initiatives like Creativebug, eHow Now ... read more ...
 
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Amazon’s Domain Name Troubles Threaten ICANN Program - A recommendation made last month by a committee from ICANN, the nonprofit organization that coordinates Internet domains, to reject Amazon.com Inc.’s application for the domain “.amazon” may end up undermining the largest-ever expansion of domains suffixes, which are also known as generic top-level domains (gTLDs). The Government Affairs Committee of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) recommended at a July meeting in Durban, South Africa, that ICANN’s ... read more ...
 
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gTLD Security Study Released – Delays Up Ahead - The results of a new study on the security risks of proposed generic Top-Level Domain (gTLD) names likely will lead to delays of many new gTLD applications by at least four months. The majority of new gTLDs are “low risk” and got the green light to proceed, although these “low risk” applicants must still wait 120 days after signing their contracts before they can activate any domain names in their gTLDs. Higher risk applications could be delayed longer.It is common practice among enterprises ... read more ...
 
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gTLD: Four Little Letters that Will Change the Web - In March, Sedo released a survey that asked SMBs about the new internet extensions, or generic top level domains (gTLDs), coming to the public in late 2013.  We wanted to know what they knew about the new internet addresses, and if they were likely to pay attention.  Results showed that SMBs generally didn’t know about the new domains, or really even care.  On the other hand, SMBs were open to the opportunities and said they’d consider buying a new gTLD if they better understood why they would ... read more ...
Wed 7th August 2013
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Verisign: We Will Delegate New gTLD’s To The Root If The NTIA Tells Us To - Some bloggers here and here, have raised the alarm that Verisign may not Delegate new gTLD’s based on a letter Verisign send to the U.S. National Telecommunications Information Administration (NTIA) back in March. I reached out to Verisign to get an updated comment and position of Verisign on the issue and asked if Verisign would delegate 20 new gTLD strings per week as is ICANN’s current plan starting sometime late this year and certainly for 2014 under the new gTLD program. A Verisign ... read more ...
 
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Die neuen Top Level Domains stehen vor der Tür – domaindiscount24 zeigt … - Mit einem animierten Clip stellt domaindiscount24 Internet-Nutzern die Chancen der neuen Endungen für Webadressen wie .berlin, .shoes, .shop oder .rodeo vor. Im Video zeigen Ben und Mia ganz praktisch, wofür sie die neuen Top Level Domains (TLDs) im Berufsleben und in ihrer Freizeit nutzen. Bereits im Herbst werden die ersten internationalen TLDs wie die arabische Schreibweise für .netz verfügbar. Erfahren Sie mehr über die neuen TLDs und sehen Sie selbst, welche neuen Möglichkeiten sie bieten. ... read more ...
 
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Retailers Fail To Derail ICANN’s ‘Express’ Train To More Top-Level Domains - There's no denying it: The Internet domain name system poses serious challenges for trademark owners. Domain name cybersquatting was the original trademark Internet twist. And the current explosive expansion in top-level domains will create new trademark conflicts, and possibly new twists in Internet trademark law, as two very recent cases involving the retailers Express and The Limited illustrate. Before diving into these recent decisions, let's quickly review top-level domains. They are the highest ... read more ...
 
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ICANN Opens Comment Period On Rights Protection Mechanism (RPM … - ICANN has opened the comment period for  “Rights Protection Mechanism (RPM) Requirements” The operational requirements for implementation of the Sunrise and Trademark Claims processes in new gTLDs, and a set of community-proposed revisions, are being posted for comment to give an opportunity for the community to review and provide feedback on these requirements. This revised version of the RPM Requirements reflects updates based on community consultations, and a set of proposals ... read more ...
 
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Die neuen Top Level Domains stehen vor der Tür – domaindiscount24 zeigt … - St. Ingbert (ots) – Mit einem animierten Clip stellt domaindiscount24 Internet-Nutzern die Chancen der neuen Endungen für Webadressen wie .berlin, .shoes, .shop oder .rodeo vor. Im Video zeigen Ben und Mia ganz praktisch, wofür sie die neuen Top Level Domains (TLDs) im Berufsleben und in ihrer Freizeit nutzen. Bereits im Herbst werden die ersten internationalen TLDs wie die arabische Schreibweise für .netz verfügbar. Erfahren Sie mehr über die neuen TLDs und sehen Sie selbst, welche neuen ... read more ...
 
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.horse is here and the internet will never be the same - Soon the internet will be awash with nearly 2,000 new top-level domains (TLDs), those short suffixes at the end of a web address — like the ubiquitous .com — that indicate the kind of site it's pointing to. The influx is the result of the new land grab for a corner of the web's millions of URLs, whether that's sites that end with .book, .catholic, or .horse. But it wasn't so long ago there were fewer than 10 TLDs, says Craig Partridge, one of the young scientists who helped decide how ... read more ...
 
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Publication of the Dotless Domain Name Study – ag-IP - MARINA DEL REY, CA - ICANN announced the publication of the Dotless Domain Name Security and Stability Study Report (http://www.icann.org/en/groups/ssac/documents/sac-053-en.pdf) [PDF, 1.02 MB] by IT Security firm, Carve Systems LLC (Carve Systems). According to ICANN, the Dotless domain names are those that consist of a single label (e.g., http://example, or mail@example). Dotless names would require the inclusion of, for example, an A, AAAA, or MX, record in the apex of a TLD zone in the DNS (i.e., ... read more ...
 
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Addressing the Consequences of Name Collisions – ICANN – ag-IP - MARINA DEL REY, CA - As directed by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) Board of Directors on May 18, 2013, ICANN commissioned and released on August 5, 2013 the results of a study that considers the likelihood and impact of name space collisions between applied-for new gTLD strings and non-delegated TLDs. According to ICANN, the study also reviewed the possibility of collisions arising from the use of X.509 digital certificates. In a study published in January 2013, ICANN's ... read more ...
 
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New gTLD SSR-2: Exploratory Consumer Impact Analysis (Part 5 of 5) - Throughout this series of blog posts we've discussed a number of issues related to security, stability, and resilience of the DNS ecosystem, particularly as we approach the rollout of new gTLDs. Additionally, we highlighted a number of issues that we believe are outstanding and need to be resolved before the safe introduction of new gTLDs can occur — and we tried to provide some context as to why, all the while continuously highlighting that nearly all of these unresolved recommendations came ... read more ...
 
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The Long Gestation and Afterlife of New gTLDs - ICANN continues to flail, pointlessly. The latest in a series of missteps that could easily have been avoided is its recommendations on what to do about a report on the potential for confusion and misaddressing when someone's internal network names match the name for a new gTLD, and they have misconfigured their routers and/or DNS to the extent that someone typing in a new gTLD name might end up in the middle of someone else's network. You'd think that if someone misconfigured their machinery ... read more ...