Tag Archives: community objection

Tue 11th February 2014
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Video Game attention fails to kick Amazon.com’s .Game - No cheat codes available for community objection. The Entertainment Software Association, a U.S. industry group for the video game industry, has failed to quash Amazon.com’s application to run the .game top level domain name. ESA filed a community objection against Amazon’s application. There are six applicants for .game, but ESA only went after Amazon.com’s application because it proposes operating the domain as a “closed” registry. This means other companies ... read more ...
Thu 9th January 2014
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Uh oh: .Basketball village conflict fails, .sport prevailed. - Panelist in .basketball decision uses different interpretation of guidelines to come up with a different conclusion than panelist in .sport. An International Chamber of Commerce panelist has determined that community objections filed against two applications for .basketball have failed. Comparing this decision to a recent one upholding a community objection to .sport, it appears we may have another case of inconsistent rulings. The .basketball community objection ... read more ...
Fri 1st November 2013
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.PersianGulf survives village conflict from those who preference Arabian Gulf name - You say Persian. I say Arabian. Let’s call the whole thing off. The Gulf Cooperation Council has lost a community objection it brought against the applicant for the .persiangulf top level domain name. This case (pdf) was one of the more interesting ones to be decided to date. The objectors don’t like the .persiangulf top level domain name because they don’t believe the body of water should be known as the Persian Gulf. Instead, they believe the name should ... read more ...
Thu 31st October 2013
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Famous Four issues matter about .Sport decision - Famous Four questions panelists decision in .sport community objection. In case you haven’t heard yet, SportAccord won a community objection against Famous Four Media’s application for the .sport top level domain name. It was a surprising decision, as it’s pretty hard to argue that “sport” is a clearly delineated community. I personally don’t know anyone who has never participated in a sport or watched a sport. It seems like anyone who breathes is a member ... read more ...
Fri 22nd March 2013
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“Gold Community” objects to .Gold tip turn domain - A sign of things to come in community objections against new TLDs? After posting yesterday about some of the objections to Donuts’ new top level domain applications, I received word that the company has received an additional community objection… on .Gold. Yes, apparently the “gold community” has objected to .gold. The case was filed by the World Gold Council, which is the only competing applicant for the .gold domain. Perhaps someone O-G’d. ... read more ...