Domain name dispute resolution: a battle of trademarks vs. domain names - The World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) Arbitration and Mediation Center’s domain name dispute resolution services for generic top-level domains (‘gTLD’) and some country code top level domains (‘ccTLD’) resolves disputes concerning domain names through the Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (‘UDRP Policy’) issued in 1999. This policy has been adopted by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), which has the role of managing ... read more ...

TRA allows individuals to register Omani domain names - Oman's Telecommunication Regulatory Authority (TRA) has made way for individuals to register a website or a domain name in their name under the country code top-level domain (ccTLD) .om and .oman in Arabic. According to Muscat Daily, the authority has amended some provisions of the statute regulating domain names. The change comes into effect from 10 September.  The applicant of a domain name under ccTLD .om and .oman in Arabic must be an Omani citizen, or one of the administrative ... read more ...

1 & 2 Character.GD and .VG Domains Will Be Charged A Higher Registration Fee - The registry for the .GD and .VG ccTLD announced today that beginning on September 2, 2014,  all 1 and 2 character domains under .GD and .VG will be considered as premium domain names and will be charged with a higher domain registration fee. The renewal fee for these domains will remain on standard pricing. Currently registered 1 and 2 character domain names will remain registered to their domain holders until deletion by them and will be renewed on standard pricing. After the deletion these domain ... read more ...

Tucows Earnings Call: gTLD’s & ccTLD’s Increase Margins & They Bank Money … -   In the earnings call Tucows (TCX) which reported earnings yesterday revealed some interest facts and figures. In general profit margins from domain name is increase due to new gTLD’s and ccTLD’s, sales of domains are slowing, and Tucows revealed they had a minority interest in an application for .group which lost a private auction. While those funds won’t be booked until Tucows 3rd Quarter, Tucows increased their guidance of profit for the 3Q by by $1 Million Here are the highlights: “As ... read more ...

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ICANN Tells US Court That ccTLDs Are Not "Property" – ag-IP - Home / ICANN Tells US Court That ccTLDs Are Not "Property" / WASHINGTON, DC - The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has told a US 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, a press release by the ... read more ...

Are Internet domain names “property”? - An interesting lawsuit – Ben Haim et al. v Islamic Republic of Iran et al. – has been percolating through the federal system for the last few years, involving a group of plaintiffs who have received money judgments against the governments of Iran, Syria, and North Korea for injuries suffered in state-sponsored terror episodes.  To satisfy the judgments, the plaintiffs have been on a campaign to seize assets — bank accounts, real property, etc. — located in the US belonging to those governments ... read more ...

ICANN: ccTLD Bukanlah Barang Milik Badan/Lembaga -   Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) belum lama ini telah menyatakan kepada Pengadilan Federal AS di District of Columbia, bahwa country code Top-Level Domain (ccTLD) tidak bisa dianggap sebagai sebuah benda kepemilikan (properti). Karena itu, ccTLD tidak bisa digugat dalam sebuah tuntutan hukum yang mencoba mengambil alihnya dari suatu negara yang dianggap mendukung terorisme. “Kami telah memberi pertimbangan kepada Pengadilan Federal AS agar melakukan peninjauan ... read more ...

Internet’s Organizing Body: Nobody Actually Owns Country Codes, Not Even … - (frankieleon)Does anyone actually own the internet? That might be the existential crisis of our age. We know companies own and operate websites, that other companies own the software that let us look at those sites, and that still other companies own and operate the physical infrastructure that allows us access to those sites. And when we stop to think about it, we know that there are registrars and regulations and standards in place that make specific parts of web addresses — the bits after the ... read more ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

CEO of .In (India) Alleges 40% of ccTLD’s Left Out Of IANA Transition … - According to a press release we received today from Dr Govin who is the CEO of the .IN ccTLD Registry which is the ccTLD for India is claiming that about 40% of all ccTLD’s are being left out of the IANA Transition Coordination Group as part of ICANN’s plan to move away from US oversight. Basically Dr. Govin says that 104 of the 259 ccTLD are not being representative in this process. Balazs Marto of .HU (Hungary) also signed the email: The USG has recently announced its intent to transition its ... read more ...