132 .Healthcare Domain Registered in EAP 5: Cancer.Healthcare; Ebola … - According to Registered.Today 132 domain names in the new gTLD .Healthcare were registered on day 5 of the Early Access Program. Under the EAP for an extra fee, domain names can be registered ahead of General Available (GA) and some of those domain names carried a premium registration and renewal. Many of the domain names were diseases or medical conditions with some Brands thrown in. .Healthcare is launching into general availability.  The price for a non-premium registration is around $49 at Godaddy. As ... read more ...

The new gTLD aftermarket has arrived -

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) launched a focus routine for new general top-level domains (gTLDs) in Jan 2012. The new gTLD programme will outcome in an rare enlargement of a Domain Name System from a existent 22 TLDs, such as ‘.com’ and ‘.org’, to over 1,400 TLDs.

While ICANN’s new gTLD programme would…

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Alice, Converse, patent reform, Donuts, Rod Stewart – the week in IP - The biggest news this week was the White House confirming the nomination of Michelle Lee as director of the USPTO and oral arguments in Teva v Sandoz at the Supreme Court. Below is a selection of other IP stories making the news. Alice puts business method patents in chains The impact that the Supreme Court's Alice v CLS decision is having on patent applications was revealed this week by Vox, which said the USPTO is now rejecting ... read more ...

Radix Announces the Addition of .Tech to its Portfolio – ag-IP - Home / Radix Announces the Addition of .Tech to its Portfolio / DUBAI - Radix announced in a press release the addition of .tech to its portfolio of new gTLDs. It is an extension dedicated to the technology community, created and conceived for use by startups, software, hardware, hi-tech corporations and technical professionals. Leading new gTLD applicants including Donuts, Uniregistry, TLDH and Google originally applied for the extension. The ... read more ...

JD.com With A $30 Billion Market Cap Registers 3 .Rich Domain At Up To $3K Per -                 .Rich picked up 3 registrations yesterday which is notable since it represented an addition of 8% to its registration based which increased from 46 to 49. .Rich has the highest cost of any new gTLD with a regular, non-premium registration fee as high as $3,000 per domain name registration. What makes it even more notable is who registered the three new .Rich domain names. These are three new registrations were: Jingdong.Rich PaiPai.Rich Vixun.Rich Jingdong which purchased ... read more ...

New York Sports Teams On Watch For New Cybersquatters - The New York Jets, New York Giants, New York Yankees and other New York-based sports teams may have a problem on their hands.  Last week, a new generic top-level domain (referred to as gTLD), .NYC, was made available for public registrations.  The .NYC gTLD allows a person who has a physical address within any of the five New York City boroughs to apply for the right to own a domain name ending in the abbreviation .NYC.  Individuals are busy snatching up valuable names, including those ... read more ...

Here is the GAC Communiqué From ICANN 51 Los Angeles - The Governmental Advisory Council to ICANN (GAC)  released its Communiqué concluding its activity from the ICANN 51 conference that was held this week in  Los Angeles, CA. Here are the highlights: Transition of US Stewardship of IANA and Strengthening ICANN Accountability The GAC met with members of the IANA Stewardship Transition Coordination Group (ICG) and was briefed on the transition proposal process in relation to names, numbers and protocol parameters. The GAC advises the ICANN Board ... read more ...

Six Key Topics to Track During Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and … - The fifty-first international meeting of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) formally commences on Monday, October 13, 2014, in Los Angeles, marking what will likely be the most well-attended North American ICANN meeting. As always, several high-profile topics have emerged amidst community discussions leading up to this meeting, all of which are relevant to registry operators, new generic top-level domain (gTLD) applicants and brand owners alike. 1. Two-Character ... read more ...

The game is afoot: concerns over trademark RPMs manipulation voiced - Trevor Little In a user feedback session on gTLD rights protection mechanisms (RPMs), held yesterday afternoon at the ICANN meeting in Los Angeles, a number of potential improvements were identified. However, a significant concern centred on alleged gaming of the system in a bid to circumvent mandated sunrise periods or increase the sums that trademark ... read more ...

Think geographic name protection in new gTLDs won’t impact your brand? Think … - Trevor Little The issue of geographic names took centre stage at the ICANN meeting yesterday, with a GAC session focused on its recent document ‘The protection of geographic names in the new gTLDs process’. Conflict over geographic name protection has already impacted gTLD applications from Amazon and US clothing company Patagonia. Should protection ... read more ...

.Club Leads All New gTLD’s In Number of Sites In Alexa Top 1 Million - According to Namestat.org  which is tracking the number of websites in the Alexa Top Million, based on the Namestat.org data on October 8th, 2014, .CLUB has more sites in the Alexa Top Million than any other new domain extension. If you calculate the number of sites in the Alexa Top Million for each of the top 50 new gTLD, after .Club the next top 49 extensions average 16.6  sites per domain, one-tenth of the number of .CLUB sites. All in all, .CLUB leads with more than ten times the usage of the ... read more ...

In the wider world of domain names, the address is key - Dot-restaurant will debut next month, following on the heels of dot-city, dot-organic, dot-rich, and even - dare we say it? - dot-WTF. So before you suddenly notice how the digital landscape has shifted and utter that bemused (and unprintable) expression yourself, here's an update on what's happening. Yes, ... read more ...

What the new GTLD roll out means - World OutGames Miami launches crowdfunding effort What the new GTLD roll out means  1 More Image California based ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers), the not-for-profit governing body that authorizes domain extensions, has announced a new set of 1,300 strings of extensions that will available for use in the years to come on a slow “roll-out” process that started last fall. ICANN ... read more ...

‘.scot’ opens for general availability -

In a arise of a new referendum on Scottish independence, a Dot Scot Registry non-stop a ‘.scot’ new ubiquitous top-level domain (gTLD) for ubiquitous accessibility on Sep 23 2014. For a nation with a race of only over 5 million, a TLD racked adult an considerable series of registrations on a initial day proof that, nonetheless a Scottish inhabitant suggestion might have…

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The internet’s best-known body wants everybody to stop asking it do things - This weekend, some 3,000 people from across the world arrived in Los Angeles for the 51st meeting of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), a nongovernmental organization that runs the web’s naming system. There is no fixed agenda; ICANN members, which include big web companies, governments, international organizations, and domain name registries and registrars, set their own topics of discussion. But even without a formal agenda, it is clear what ICANN members be ... read more ...

Icann appoints Grogan as chief contact compliance officer - The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has appointed Allen Grogan as chief contact compliance officer, overseeing contract compliance and safeguards. With this appointment, Grogan also becomes a member of ICANN's global leadership team. He has served as ICANN's chief contracting counsel since May 2013.  Grogan has negotiated and implemented the new gTLD agreements, and has more than 30 years of experience as a lawyer specialising in technology and the internet.  ... read more ...

ICANN Updates Agreement With PowerAuctions for Indirect New gTLD … - ICANN announced tonight that it was updating its agreement with Power Auctions LLC, the company ICANN contracted with to operate auctions of Last Resort for new gTLD’s that received more than one application and were not able to settle the contention amongst themselves. ICANN announced today that it has Updated its agreement today with Power Auctions to provide for Indirect Contention Sets for which PowerAuctions will get paid another $120,000 We wrote about ICANN agreement with Power Auctions, ... read more ...

Building a Better WHOIS for the Individual Registrant - Today, anyone can use WHOIS to identify the organization or person who registered a gTLD domain name, along with their postal address, email address, and telephone number. Publishing this data has long been controversial, creating a system riddled with problems. On one hand, anonymous access to all WHOIS data enables misuse by spammers and criminals and raises concerns about personal privacy. On the other hand, incomplete or false WHOIS data prolongs Internet outages and leaves crime victims ... read more ...

How ICANN’s New Domain Name Process Failed the Gay Community - A final point was lost because of “community opposition.” There was just one official objection received, and it was rejected, but that was enough to cost a full point. The objection concerned authentication, a principle required by ICANN. So, ICANN requires authentication, someone complains about authentication, and that is grounds for a negative review by ICANN. Whether the objection is legitimate or not, EIU says that the very existence of an objection makes it “relevant,” thus costing ... read more ...

ResellerClub’s Inaugural New gTLD Summit Sees Participation From Key … - NEW YORK - ResellerClub’s recently concluded New gTLD Summit saw participation from a host of key players from the domains and web hosting industry such as Donuts, Radix, Affilias, .SHIKSHA, .DESI and .CLUB. The event was the first-of-its-kind to be held in India, targeted exclusively at the New gTLD Industry Segment that is still at a nascent stage of development. The summit was the perfect platform for registry representatives, registrars, resellers and other interested stakeholders ... read more ...