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Generic Top Level Domains – Current Sunrise Periods Open – May 2015 Update - You are responsible for reading, understanding and agreeing to the National Law Review's (NLR’s) and the National Law Forum LLC's  Terms of Use and Privacy Policy before using the National Law Review website. The National Law Review is a free to use, no-log in database of legal and business articles. The content and links on www.NatLawReview.com are intended for general information purposes only. Any legal analysis, legislative updates or other content and links should not be construed ... read more ...

These New Domains are Cool, But Also Dangerous - In the last couple of years, we have been watching the evolution of the new gTLDs (generic top-level domains). From the boring .com, .net, or .us, the Internet is now moving towards new and exciting domain names like .business, .ceo or .photo, among dozens of other interesting options. However, along with these came other not-so-interesting domains, like .sucks or .wtf. Those domains can be used by ill-intentioned people to mock someone or some company, which can be bad for the affected party. ... read more ...

Barclays moves to new gTLDs - Barclays is moving its online presences to its new gTLDs, the UK bank has confirmed. The Barclays Group will transfer its online assets to .barclays and .barclaycard to make it “crystal clear” that customers are engaging with a genuine Barclays site, it said. Barclays will no longer use the .com and .co.uk TLDs. Troels Oerting, Barclays Group chief information security officer, said: “This clarity, along with the advantages of controlling our own online environment, enables us to provide ... read more ...

ICANN Announces Phase One Results from Multiyear Consumer Study on the … – ag-IP - Home / ICANN Announces Phase One Results from Multiyear Consumer Study on the ... / LOS ANGELES - The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) published the findings from its ICANN Global Consumer Research Study, Phase One, conducted on its behalf by Nielsen, to measure aspects of consumer awareness, perceived consumer choice, experience and trust related to the current generic top-level domain (gTLD) landscape and ... read more ...

Unprecedented move: Vox Populi extends sunrise deadline for “.sucks” domain … - In a move that is being interpreted as possible overreaching, Vox Populi, operator of the .sucks domain name, extended the period for registering .sucks during the "sunrise period" without notice. The new deadline to register the .sucks domain name is June 19. Not only is it $2,000 or more to register each .sucks domain name, there is also an annual renewal fee of $2,000. There is online speculation that Vox’s extension is motivated by a relatively large surge in last minute registrations before ... read more ...

Which gTLD .sucks — protecting your business brand - Since ICANN – the organization that allocates domain names — approved an initiative in 2011 to add thousands of new “generic” Top-Level Domains (gTLD), over 635 new gTLDs have been registered.  Many of these are creative efforts to expand topical diversity on the internet, but few have received as much notoriety as .sucks. A gTLD is the portion of an internet address to the right of the dot, such as .com, .net or .org.  Under ICANN’s plan, third parties may register and administer ... read more ...

What’s Going on in China’s Domain Name Industry? - Recently, there has been a lot of noise about China tightening control of the new top-level domains and how it could severely damper domain name registrations in China and one should make preparation for the worst. Initially, I tried to stay out of this as I know all the players behind this. But given that at least 3 people have emailed me asking what's going on, I decided to clear the air here. It started with a report by Brandma on China's "Special Operation" to regulate Domain Name Registrations ... read more ...

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