In Congressional Hearing, Stakeholders Highlight ICANN’s Failures and Need … - Can we trust ICANN to conduct itself in a predictable, open, transparent, and accountable manner if it takes over governance of the Internet's domain name system from the U.S. government? That was the main question up for discussion Wednesday in the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property, and the Internet, as lawmakers heard feedback from a diverse group of stakeholders about the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) plan to relinquish its ... read more ...

Here Is The Statement Phil Corwin Of The ICA Will Be Giving To The House … - Here is the Statement of Philip S. Corwin,  Counsel, Internet Commerce Association   will give today to the House Judiciary Committee, Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property and the Internet The hearing is entitled: “Stakeholder Perspectives on ICANN: The .Sucks Domain and Essential Steps to Guarantee Trust and Accountability in the Internet’s Operation” The hearing should have a live webcast here and is scheduled to start at 10am EST Here is Mr. Corwin statement and there are some ... read more ...

New gTLDs in action (and comedy) - A year and a half after rolling out the first new generic top-level domain (gTLD), over 600 new domains have been delegated and about five million new domain names have been registered in the new gTLDs. Despite these impressive numbers, the feeling is that the average consumer is still unaware of this massive expansion of the Internet. However, there are some indications that the tide is turning. In the current season of the HBO comedy “Silicon Valley,” fictional tech giant ... read more ...

Coming soon: .bank and .insurance domain names - In 2008, the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (“IANA”), the nonprofit organization overseeing global IP address allocation, began the process of creating and auctioning new top-level domains. Since then, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (“ICANN”), has confirmed a number of new ‘generic’ top level domains (“gTLD”), including two new “community-based gTLDs” for the financial services community, .bank and .insurance. “Community-based gTLDs” ... read more ...

New gTLD .CLUB Celebrates First Birthday - A year after the launch of .club, there are over 220,000 websites registered and almost 40,000 active with the new gTLD. .Club is being held up as one of the successes among the new extensions, as awareness of new gTLDs remains low and web user and stakeholders have reported mixed experiences. Some .club domains have sold for high amounts, lead by wine.club, which was auctioned for $140,000, and others including coffee.club and vegas.club going for six figures. Premium .club domain sales have ... read more ...

Domain name operator Rightside posts 13% revenue gain, swings to profit - Taryn Naidu, CEO of Rightside.Rightside, the domain name operator that spun off from Demand Media last year, today reported double digit revenue growth and solid net income for its first quarter. Shares, which are up 28 percent so far this year, gained more than one percent in trading today. The Kirkland company reported total revenue of $50.5 million, up from $44.5 million for the same period last year. Net income was $1.8 million, compared to a net loss of $2.2 million for the ... read more ...

Rightside Announces First Quarter 2015 Financial Results - First Quarter Total Revenue Increases 13% Year-over-Year Signed 4 new gTLD Registry Operator Agreements Year-to-Date KIRKLAND, Wash., May 7, 2015 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Rightside Group, Ltd. (Nasdaq:NAME), a leading provider of domain name services that advance the way businesses and consumers define and present themselves online, today announced financial results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2015. "We had a strong start to the ... read more ...

Squarespace Partners with Rightside to Offer New gTLDs - Rightside and Squarespace have teamed up to offer new gTLDs to users of Squarespace’s website builder. Some of the new gTLDs that will be available include .BAND, .ROCKS, .NINJA, .DANCE, and .LAWYER, among others. Since the introduction of new gTLDs there has been some struggle with raising enough awareness among SMBs and individual users that new gTLDs are available and can be quite affordable. By partnering with Squarespace, a site builder with broad appeal, Rightside could be bringing new ... read more ...

Coming Soon: .Bank And .Insurance Domain Names - 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 ...

What You Need to Know About .sucks Domain Names - The sunrise period for trademark owners to register their .sucks domain names has started. That means owners of federally registered trademarks (and celebrities) can pay around $2,000 to get their brands’ .sucks domain names before those domains go on sale to the general public on June 1, 2015. Yes, you read that correctly. The cost to secure your .sucks domain name before anyone else can get it is at least $2,000. If you wait until June 1, you can register any .sucks domain for $249 ... read more ...

Renowned Four Press’s.SCIENCE domain expansion quickly increases to get to … - This post was originally published on link to postIt Is Bomb.SCIENCE Thursday, 06 May 2015, Gibraltar: Popular Four Press, a worldwide head within the supply of universal Top-Level Areas (gTLDs), today declared the.SCIENCE new universal Top-Level Site, a domain registry that it handles, has already reached over domain 250,000 enrollment (internet handles) in a few months. This makes.SCIENCE among the fastest-growing site registries in the world. ldquo;We’re naturally happy using the ... read more ...

Famous Four Media’s .SCIENCE domain extension rapidly rises to become the … - It Is Rocket .SCIENCE Wednesday, 06 May 2015, Gibraltar: Famous Four Media, a global leader in the provision of generic Top Level Domains (gTLDs), today announced that the .SCIENCE new generic Top Level Domain, a domain registry that it manages, has reached over domain 250,000 registration (web addresses) in 3 months. This makes .SCIENCE one of the fastest growing domain registries on the planet. “We are understandably delighted with the adoption by the public of the .SCIENCE domain ... read more ...

Meet Twitter’s first trademark counsel - How long have you been at Twitter? I have been here a little over a year. I came on as Twitter’s first trademark counsel, and manage the trademark, domain and marketing practices here. Prior to that I was at Amazon for three-plus years in Seattle, and before that I was at the firm of Kilpatrick Townsend in the New York office. Being the first was definitely something that attracted me. To come ... read more ...

Extortion or free speech? -   Molouk Y. Ba-Isa Saudi Gazette     Most everyone is familiar with dotCom (.com) or dotGov (.gov) domain names. But back in 2011, The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) decided to allow a massive expansion of generic top-level domain names (gTLDs). New gTLDs that were approved included dotBlack (.black), ... read more ...

In-house counsel become digital natives - Print Close Email a friend Your name: Your email: Please enter a maximum of 5 recipients. Use ; to separate more than one email address. Recipient email(s): Recipient name(s): Email yourself a copy? ... read more ...

Conn. IP Lawyers Predict Problems With New ‘Dot.Sucks’ Domain Name -

Brian C. Roche and Gerald C. Pia Jr. are partners in Roche Pia in Shelton, a cyberlaw organisation representing clients in Internet piracy, domain name disputes, mechanism crimes, trade tip cases and other egghead skill matters.

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Cyrillic considerations - Cyrillic considerationsNon-Latin names are not new, but gTLDs are bringing them like never before. PETOŠEVIĆ’s Tatyana Kulikova examines the Russian exampleThe TLD .РФ (.rf in Latin) was the first Cyrillic TLD of the IDNA (Internationalising Domain Names in Applications) system. It was delegated to Russia in May 2010, but the idea had been around since 2001. At the beginning of this year, Macedonia launched its Cyrillic TLD, .мкд (.mkd in Latin), and on 1 March, Belarus launched .бел ... read more ...

The routes to be travelled - The routes to be travelledDaniel Greenberg of Lexsynergy outlines how trademark attorneys should approach online brand protection in the new gTLD programmeWhether you agree or disagree, domain names are intertwined with trademarks. The vast majority of trademark law firms offer some sort of service relating to domain names or have assisted clients in resolving domain name disputes. The impact of new gTLDs (such as .lawyer, .london, .sucks and .adult) is significant, creating ‘new real estate’ ... read more ...

Cybersquatting: where do we stand? - Cybersquatting: where do we stand?The age of new gTLDs has brought with it more opportunities for cybersquatters. Nathalie Dreyfus of Dreyfus reportsThe Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) launched the new extensions project in 2008. In January 2015, the number of registered domain names among 500 new active extensions reached the four millions. Within a few years, the number of new extensions continuously increased from 20 to more than 1,000. Some 506 of 1,930 initial ... read more ...

Only in name - Only in nameNameshield’s Jean-Francois Vanden Eynde on the big .brand dreamIn 2012, the Internet Cooperation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) received 643 applications for restricted-use gTLDs from brand owners. Recently, a surprising proportion of these so-called .brand applications have been withdrawn, often resulting in the loss of the entire application fee, which is $185,000. Why have these brand owners taken the decision to relinquish control over their very own piece of internet ... read more ...

ICANN rolls out new Generic TLDs – IT - The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers has begun their roll out of new Generic Top Level Domain Names (GTLDs).Whilst in the past generic domain name extensions were limited to .COM, .BIZ, .NET and the like, ICANN intends to release over 1000 new domain extensions which will include extensions such as .SHOP, .CLOTHING, and .SHOES. The release of the new GTLDs is the culmination of a process commenced as far back as the year 2000 with the intention of expanding the ... read more ...

What in the world is happening and how do I approach the unknown? - What in the world is happening and how do I approach the unknown?Faced with so many choices across new gTLDs, many haven’t a clue what to do. Jeanette Söderlund Sause of .Global explains what brands should look out forWith the recent introduction of several hundred new TLDs, such as .global, .archi and .nyc, the internet name space has expanded significally beyond the traditional .com TLD. This is about the extent of the knowledge that most people outside of the immediate domain name industry ... read more ...

The unexploded .bomb - The unexploded .bombTLDs have multiplied exponentially—but will .com ever be left behind? The ever-popular .com celebrated its thirtieth birthday in 2014. It has gained the trust of millions worldwide, but new gTLDs are here and offer something markedly different. They’re new and ambitious, but will they knock .com off its perch? Some of the hundreds of new gTLDs that are already available include .land, .wtf, and .care. Of those, .xyz has proven the most popular so far, with more than ... read more ...