Geographical Name Branding: Dot Patagonia? Dot Amazon? – Adotas - Comment Print Article Email Permalink Written on Apr 25, 2013  Author Naseem Javed  | Share Geographical Name Branding: Dot Patagonia? Dot Amazon? ADOTAS – When names are borrowed from the Atlas, things happen. Use of Geographic names have always caused some problems for two reasons; one they are in public domain so anyone can use and two they suggest that business is confined to just that geographic area. Like Paris Bakery, Waterloo ... read more ...

Update on ICANN’s new gTLD program - Brand owners should prepare for Internet expansion in 2013. Despite numerous concerns voiced by governments, law enforcement, brand owners, and businesses, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) continues to march forward with its new generic Top-Level Domain (gTLD) program, which promises to significantly expand the number of available Internet domain extensions in the near future.[1] ICANN is currently evaluating more than 1,900 applications for approximately 1,400 ... read more ...

Brand owners can protect trademarks in Trademark Clearinghouse for new … - The new Generic Top-Level Domain (gTLD) expansion undertaken by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has recently implemented the Trademark Clearinghouse (“Clearinghouse”) as a mechanism to protect brand owners’ trademark rights in the expansion. The Clearinghouse will serve as a central registry to authenticate contact information and verify mark ownership rights. It will store this information in a single database that may be accessed by the over 1400 Top Level ... read more ...

gTLD Contention Auction in May: Request for Comments – CircleID - Many gTLD applicants with strings in contention have already heard about the Applicant Auction, a voluntary private auction for resolving string contention that my colleagues and I are organizing. In this post we'd like to share some updates on our progress. Most importantly, we realized that more than just an escrow agent is needed for the success of a private auction of this scale, and we have partnered with Morrison Foerster, LLP, a global law firm, who will be acting as the neutral party ... read more ...

Leading-Edge Law: Some new developments relating to new domain names - Changes are coming to generic top-level domain names. A generic top-level domain name, or gTLD in tech speak, is the part after the last dot, like “.com” or “.net.” We could see gTLDs for a wide variety of interests, such as “.app” and “.med.” Within the next year or so, perhaps more than 1,000 new generic top-level domains are supposed to launch. Companies are applying for these new gTLDs. ... read more ...

Welcome to (dot) brand - As hundreds of new internet domain names prepare to roll out across the world, a handful of Aussie brands are waiting to see theirs go live. Lucy Clark discovers what it means – and the implications for brands that did not apply “This will probably be the most significant change to the internet in our lifetime – yet no-one knows about it.” ARI Registry Services’ Adrian Kinderis’ (pictured) observation is no exaggeration. As those that applied gear up for implementation, and those ... read more ...

Chicago.com Announces Strategic Marketing Partnership with Chicago Tribune … - From the article: “We see tremendous opportunity in offering Chicago.com’s innovative products to our loyal readers and users,” says Bill Adee, Vice President of Digital Development and Operations at Chicago Tribune Media Group.” ——————————————– Again, we’re talking about vanity EMAIL ADDRESSES. What, exactly, is innovative about hosting email addresses? Chicago.tl is unregistered…I could go pick that domain up for ... read more ...

Horse’s Head in a Trademark Owner’s Bed – CircleID - Recently, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) unveiled its Trademark Clearinghouse (TMCH), a tool it proposes will help fight trademark infringement relating to another of its new programs — generic top level domain (gTLD). As Lafeber describes, criticism of ICANN's gTLD program and subsequent TMCH database is mounting. Skeptics have noted that given the significant cost of registering a gTLD — the application fee is $185,000 and subsequent annual fees are $25,000 ... read more ...

ICANN’s Trademark Clearinghouse helps trademark owners watch out for their … - As early as April 23, 2013, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, better known as ICANN, may launch the long-awaited first set of new top level domain names, or gTLDs, which are the combinations of letters that appear to the right of the “dot” in an internet domain name. This means that rather than the options for domain names being limited to “.com,” “.net,” “.org,” and a handful of other gTLDs, there could soon be hundreds or even thousands of gTLDs available. ... read more ...

The Trademark Clearinghouse – What Every Trade Mark Owner Needs To Know - The Trademark Clearinghouse came into effect on 26 March 2013.   What exactly does this mean? Well, as you might know, some 1900 Generic Top Level Domains (gTLDs) are likely to be launched during the course of 2013, some as early as May.  Included amongst these are .accountant,   .attorney, .capetown, .finance, .news, .shop and .zulu.   It's self-evident that a bank might want to register its trade mark as a 2nd level name (a domain name) under the gTLD  .bank,  or that ... read more ...

.Bloomingdales Becomes 45th WIthdrawn New gTLD Application - Macy’s Inc. just withdrew its new gTLD application for .Bloomingdales with ICANN. The application had a prioritization number of 1150 and becomes the 45th new gTLD application to be withdrawn. The .Bloomingdales registry was going to be operated on a  closed basis. Here is how Macy’s described registry, the new .bloomingdales gTLD will operate as a restricted registry, in which Macy’s Inc (Macy’s) can create and control domain spaces that promote the Bloomingdale’s brand identity ... read more ...

ICANN Opens Trademark Clearing House - Terms Conditions and Privacy Statement Mondaq.com (the Website) is owned and managed by Mondaq Ltd and as a user you are granted a non-exclusive, revocable license to access the Website under its terms and conditions of use. Your use of the Website constitutes your agreement to the following terms and conditions of use. Mondaq Ltd may terminate your use of the Website if you are in breach of these terms and conditions or if Mondaq Ltd decides to terminate your license of use for whatever reason. Use ... read more ...

New gTLD Trademark Clearinghouse Launches In Anticipation Of New Era Of … - ICANN, the International Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, has taken another step in expanding the number of sanctioned top-level web domains (TLD). Domain extensions such as .nike, .canon and .bank may now join the already existing TLDs, including .com, .org, .net, .biz and .info, and are expected to be activated within the coming weeks. ICANN has launched the Trademark Clearinghouse (TMCH), a central repository designed to help brand owners protect their marks from the many forms of ... read more ...

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Dot-What? – The New GTLDs Are Coming And It’s Time To Understand The … - Last year, ICANN received 1,917 applications for new Generic Top Level Domains ("gTLDs") - everything from .app to .zip and numerous branded and generic strings in between. (Of the 1,917 applications, 754 are currently in "contention sets" due to similarities, and a few others have been abandoned, so the final number of new strings will be materially lower than the original figure.) To help alleviate the concerns of brand owners in connection with the upcoming onslaught of new strings, ICANN has proposed ... read more ...

GAC Is Concerned About Plural & Singular Generic New gTLD’s - The Government Advisory Council (GAC) has an open meeting with the ICANN Board late yesterday afternoon in Beijing and shared some of its concerns with the Board. The GAC is quite concerned about plural and singular generic new gTLD’s and that they weren’t placed into contention sets using .car and .cars as an example. This is the same criticism that TheDomains.com had when the contention set committee released it results. The GAC seems to share our belief that having generics with plural ... read more ...

The Trade Mark Clearing House now open for business - The Trade Mark Clearing House opened for registrations on 26 March 2013. The IPT Alert team look at what this means for business and the services that it will provide. The Trade Mark Clearing House (TMCH) was established by Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) to assist in protecting trade mark rights in the new generic top-level domain (gTLD) system. Essentially, TMCH is a single global database for trade mark data, open to any holder of eligible trade marks (whether individuals ... read more ...

ICANN Trademark Clearinghouse open for business -   The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (“ICANN”) recently opened a Trademark Clearinghouse (“TMCH”) designed to protect registered trademarks.  Each time a new generic Top Level Domain (“gTLD”) is launched, trademark owners often find they need to fend off a rash of new cybersquatting domain names that crop up as a result. While there are procedures in place to contest the use of a trademark improperly embedded in a domain name, they can be fairly costly and time-consuming.  Now, ... read more ...