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Fri 14th November 2014
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DNS Policy Notes for Nov. 14, 2014 (Hiatus Edition) - DNS POLICY NOTES FOR NOV. 14, 2014 (HIATUS EDITION) Collected news and opinion about the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, the domain name business, Internet governance, and miscellaneous other cyberlaw topics for Nov. 14, 2014.DNS Apparently Safe From TPPI spent the better part of today learning about the Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement. Here's what I learned:#1. The text of the TPP's Intellectual Property ... read more ...
 
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The .IR, .KP and .SY Domains Are “Safe” - By Paul Rosenzweig Friday, November 14, 2014 at 1:21 PM A couple of months ago, I noted an interesting law suit brought by several victims of terrorist attacks. They had secured default money judgments against Iran, North Korea and Syria for those country’s alleged complicity in supporting terror and their own resulting injuries. Sadly, for the victims, none of these countries had assets subject to American jurisdiction that could be attached to satisfy ... read more ...
 
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US judge rules Iran’s top-level domain cannot be seized - A global diplomatic crisis seems to have been averted after a Washington DC judge ruled that it’s unlawful to seize a country’s Internet domain registry. Lawyers working on behalf of nine American citizens who were inured during an Iranian-sponsored bombing in Jerusalem back in 1997 had attempted to seize the top level “.IR” domain in order to recoup some of the millions of dollars in compensation they’re owed. Unfortunately for the plaintiffs, Judge Royce Lamberth sided with the Internet ... read more ...
 
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.Realtor: Is it The Best Example Of How Slow End User Adoption Of New gTLD … - The National Association of Realtors launched .Realtor about 3 weeks ago on October 23rd To date there have been less than 85,000 .Realtor domain names registered. The good news is that the extension has by far the lowest rate of parked domains with just over 1% of all .Realtor domain names being parked.  According to ntldstats.com out of the 84,615 .Realtor domain names registered only 1,066 or 1.26% are “Parked” Now here is the bad news for the gTLD’s. According to the National Association ... read more ...
 
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Nuovi domini di primo livello: le battaglie del terzo millennio - Negli ultimi due anni, più precisamente dal 12 Gennaio 2012, le più grandi imprese del web hanno cominciato a darsi battaglia su un nuovo campo, ovvero quello dei domini di primo livello. A partire da questa data è stato liberalizzato il mercato dei domini di primo livello, in altre parole è stata data libertà di utilizzo dei domini di primo livello personalizzati come indirizzo per il proprio sito web. Un indirizzo web, ovvero un dominio è costituito di norma da 3 parti divise da un punto: ... read more ...
 
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PIR Operator Of .Org Reveals Its OnGood Campaign For The New gTLD’s .NGO … - Public Interest Registry, the not-for-profit operator of the .org extension, today unveiled “OnGood” – the new brand identity for the upcoming  .ngo .ong domain extensions along with their accompanying suite of services. Set to launch in early 2015, OnGood is an online community designed with and for NGOs and nonprofits worldwide, providing them with a suite of online services to help raise funds, build awareness and support for their missions. After conducting extensive research and in-person ... read more ...
 
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Aruba si prende il cloud un tld ambito - E’ stata l’azienda italiana Aruba ad aggiudicarsi l’estensione molto interessante e ricercata, si tratta del .cloud. L’estensione .cloud era molto ricercata in proiezione futura ma già attuale, visti i servizi cloud che si stanno moltiplicando sul web, c’è da dire che sul tld erano piombate anche Amazon, Symantec e nientemeno che Google. L’azienda italiana però è riuscita a spuntarla e ha rivoluzionato il mercato, inserendo appunto un’azienda italiana come Aruba, ai vertici ... read more ...
 
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One Degree World disrupts Online Travel industry with its use of emerging top … - Technology One Degree World disrupts Online Travel industry with its use of emerging top-level domains Vicky Karantzavelou - 14 November 2014, 12:17 Company to launch the largest portfolio of global travel and entertainment sites on new top-level domains partnering with .BUZZ, .NINJA and .VEGAS, among others. <!-- Lorel ipsum . Philippe Chereque, Amadeus, . . 41 ... read more ...
 
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Italian company Aruba beats Amazon, Google to .cloud domain - Italian web hosting and cloud services company Aruba S.p.A. has won the auction to sell domains ending in .cloud, beating off competition from Amazon, Google and Symantic, reports The Register. The auction is a result of the decision by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) to create scores of new gTLD domain name extensions. Arezzo-based Aruba has been active in the Italian market for over 20 years and has been a cloud provider since 2011. However, Amazon did win ... read more ...
 
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Ad Aruba l’estensione .cloud - Aruba S.p.A. si è aggiudicata l’estensione .cloud concretizzando le sue prospettive di operatore globale su questo mercato. Per diventare Registro Ufficiale per la registrazione dei domini .cloud avevano fatto domanda sei società  oltre ad Aruba, tra cui Amazon, Charleston Road Registry (Google) e Symantec. Il dominio in questione è un’estensione molto ambita, non solo perchè di grande rilevanza per tutti gli attori del mercato desiderosi di ... read more ...
 
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Amazon wins right to sell .pay and .buy domains - © Finextra Research 2014 Contact usEditorial Sales and Membership Follow usLinkedIn Twitter <!--Facebook--> RSS Feeds Daily ... read more ...
 
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Judge Rules That Even if Iran Owes You Money, You Can’t Just Take Its Top … - Nothing else has panned out, though, so the plaintiffs decided to go after Iran’s top ccTLDs and, weirdly, Syria’s and North Korea’s, too. According to InTheCapital, the suit now stands more broadly for terrorist victims in all three countries. But the plaintiffs aren’t going to be able to seize the ccTLDs, .ir for Iran, .kp for North Korea, or .sy for Syria. ... read more ...
Thu 13th November 2014
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Não se podem apreender TLDs de países - Uma boa notícia para os que se preocupam com o poder que o governo dos EUA tem na Internet. Numa decisão histórica, que sinaliza uma vitória para o actual sistema de governança da Internet, um tribunal dos Estados Unidos anulou uma tentativa de apreensão dos domínios do Irão, Síria e da Coreia do Norte, como parte de um processo contra os governos desses países. Os queixosos no caso queriam ficar ... read more ...
 
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ccTLDs Might Be Property - The long-running saga of victims who are pursuing 'state sponsors of terrorism' via ICANN has taken yet another turn. Some time back the Plaintiffs in Rubin ors -v- Islamic Republic of Iran ors managed to obtain Writs of Attachment in the Federal court district in Washington (D.C.) courts ordering that the ccTLDs of those respective countries be seized in part-payment of the damages they are owed. ICANN, fairly predictably, became involved at this point. It went to Court in DC asking ... read more ...
 
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Judge: Terror bomb victims CAN’T seize Iran’s domain name as compensation - Adaptable System Recovery (ASR) for Linux virtual machines A judge in Washington DC has ruled that a country's entire internet registry cannot be seized, averting a global diplomatic crisis.In a ruling [PDF] made earlier this week but released late last night, Judge Royce Lamberth focused in on a single argument presented by DNS overseer ICANN that country code top-level domains (ccTLDs) are not "attachable property" because they "exist only as they are made operational ... read more ...
 
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Judge Rules Terror Victims Can’t Take Over Country Domain Names - Image via Paul Matthew Photography / Shutterstock Terrorist victims from Iran, North Korea and Syria cannot gain control of the Internet domain names of those countries according to a judge in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. Judge Royce Lamberth ruled that country level domain names, in this case .ir, .sy and .kp, are not actually property and thus a court can't seize them during legal proceedings. It's a big win for the nonprofit Internet Corporation for Assigned ... read more ...
 
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Il Cloud è italiano, l’ha vinto Aruba - di Celia GuimaraesMilano 13 novembre 2014Al Registro Ufficiale per la registrazione dei domini '.cloud' avevano fatto domanda sei società: Amazon, CloudNames, Charleston Road Registry (Google), Dash Cedar, Symantec e Top Level Domain Holdings. Oltre, naturalmente, ad Aruba, società per azioni italiana di servizi di data center, web hosting, e-mail, posta elettronica certificata e registrazione domini.  Cloud, termine diventato popolare e abrangente, è un’estensione molto ambita. Il grande ... read more ...
 
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No, you can’t seize country TLDs, US court rules - Trending: Got Lollipop? 10 cool things to try with Android 5.0 IT Careers Broadband Resources/White Papers computerworld Cloud Computing All Cloud Computing ... read more ...
 
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Judge sides with ICANN: Plaintiffs can’t take all of Iran’s domain names - A federal judge in Washington, DC, has ruled that an entire country code Top-Level Domains (ccTLDs) cannot be transferred as part of a civil judgement to collect Iranian state assets in the wake of a terrorism attack "because they are not property subject to attachment under District of Columbia law." Further ReadingICANN to plaintiffs: No, you can’t have all of Iran’s domainsAttack victims won 2003 judgment against Iran but haven't been able to collect.In an eight-page memorandum ... read more ...
 
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US Court Quashes Attempts to Attach ccTLDs: Federal Judge Agrees with ICANN – ag-IP - Home / US Court Quashes Attempts to Attach ccTLDs: Federal Judge Agrees with ICANN / LOS ANGELES - A US federal court has agreed with the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) that the country code Top-Level Domains (ccTLDs) are not property subject to attachment.  According to ICANN, claimants filed writs of attachment to seize from ICANN, the ccTLDs for Iran (.IR), Syria (.SY) and North Korea (.KP), (as well as internationalized ... read more ...
 
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Aruba dominio .cloud | Battute Google e Amazon - Non c'è davvero bisogno di spiegare perché il dominio .cloud sia stato uno dei più ambiti, nell'assegnazione effettuata dall’ICANN, l’organizzazione no profit che gestisce l’assegnazione dei Top-Level Domain (TLD) per il web. A concorrere per aggiudicarsi la nuova estensione ci sono infatti state tante aziende tecnologiche tra le più famose, tra le quali troviamo Amazon (già in possesso del dominio ... read more ...
 
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Symantec Withdraws their Uncontested Application for New gTLD .AntiVirus - Symantec Corporation has withdrawn their uncontested application for the new gTLD .Antivirus after saying it would become one of their “core assets” in their application. From its application it appears Symantic wanted to operate the extension on a closed basis. The Government Advisory Counsel (GAC) to ICANN objected to generic strings from being operated on a closed basis forcing most who had applied to operate on a closed basis to open them up to outside registrations. Here is part of the application: “Symantec ... read more ...
 
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US Court Overrules Attempt to Seize Iran’s, Syria’s and North Korea’s Domains - In a landmark ruling, a U.S. federal court has agreed with the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) that the country code Top-Level Domains (ccTLDs) are not property subject to attachment and thus overruled an attempt to seize Iran's, Syria's and North Korea's domains as part of a lawsuit against those countries' governments. "We are pleased that the court ruled in our favor on the grounds that the ccTLDs are not property, subject to attachment", said John Jeffrey, ... read more ...
 
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ICANN Clears the Way for Two-character New gTLD Domain Names - ICANN reported last night that it has Cleared the way for Two Character New gTLD domain names, domain names like NN.whatever, NL.whatever or LN.whatever. The jury is still out of two letter new gTLD’s “After reviewing the summary and analysis of the first batch of Public Comments, the ICANN Board passed Resolution 2014.10.16.14 on 7 November 2014 directing ICANN staff to “develop and implement an efficient procedure for the release of two-character domains currently required to be reserved ... read more ...
 
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1st Day New gTLD Totals: .Melbourne 2518: .Restaurant 2389; .Gifts 1010; .Sarl … - 4 new gTLD entered General Availability (GA) yesterday (.Melbourne was on Tuesday local time) and including all Sunrise domain name registrations by trademark holdersm and all registrations under the landrush in the case of .Melbourne and the Early Access Program for those willing to pay an additional amount to get early access to a domain name here are the totals after the 1st day of GA: .Melbourne 2,518 .Restaurant 2,389 .Gifts 1,010 .Sarl 176 We should note that Uniregistry launched ;Gift a while ... read more ...