Competition Is Sexy – Separation or Integration of the Domain Name Sales … - Back in the early days of the public Internet, Network Solutions had a monopoly on .com, .org., and .net domain registrations and charged $100 per domain for a 2-year registration. Growing complaints about that predatory pricing was one of the factors that led to ICANN's creation. NetSol established an internal "firewall" in 1998 and its wholesale prices soon dropped to $6 per domain. VeriSign acquired NetSol for $21 billion in 2000, and then sold off the registrar side of the business to private ... read more ...

Do you have a two word brand‎ You need consider the new gTLDs now - 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 ...

Iron Mountain to protect new top-level domains - Starting soon, new domain names will flood the Internet, changing how companies list themselves and how consumers find them online. In late January, the first new generic Top-Level Domains (gTLDs) – .bike, .clothing, .guru, .holdings, .plumbing, .singles and .ventures – went live and many more such as .bid, .science and .pub are expected to follow, as companies look to expand their presence on the Internet. Iron Mountain escrow protection has been chosen to protect the data for more than 70 ... read more ...

A Step Closer – Impact Of New Generic Top-Level Domains On Brand Owner … - Several generic top-level domains ("gTLDs") recently completed their Sunrise Periods, taking a step closer to realizing the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers' ("ICANN's") gTLD expansion project from the existing 22 gTLDs (e.g. .com, .net, .org, .biz, etc.) to potentially 1,300 new gTLDs (i.e. arbitrary top-level domains). Brand owners now face an uphill battle in the enforcement of trade-mark rights on the Internet. But what are the mechanisms available? ICANN Mandated Protections The ... read more ...

Easyspace offers new Domain Names for Business – .COMPANY - These new domain extensions give businesses greater flexibility. (PRWEB UK) 19 March 2014 Glasgow, UK: UK domain name provider Easyspace has issued a further set of generic Top-Level Domains (gTLDs) to help businesses and individuals identify themselves online. One of these is .Company - this will provide a recognisable worldwide business domain name. This can be ... read more ...

Why A Chinese IDN Maybe One Of The Top 5 Most Registered New gTLD’s … - Yesterday we told you about Sedo.com having online bidding for the live auction of the Chinese IDN for Online (.在线) which will be held in  Macau starting at 11 a.m. Friday local Macau Time (03:00 UTC) March 21, 2014 (Thursday March 20th at 11pm EST). Personally I don’t own any IDN’s but this one may make me change my mind. For one as most know, China has more internet users than the population of the United States, 618 million as of December 2013. About 2 weeks ago LinkedIn launched ... read more ...

Godaddy Loses 5% Market Share of New gTLD’s As .Berlin Changes The Game - Godaddy.com share of the new gTLD market dropped 5% overnight after the domain extension for .Berlin launched getting almost 32,000 registrations German based registrar, InterNetX said they were able to secure 81% of all preregistrations for its clients, “making it the #1 registrar for .BERLIN domains in the B2B sector”. Godaddy.com which had just under 40% of the new gTLD market as a domain name registrar share is now sitting right below 35%. Many German based registrars benefited from ... read more ...

New gTLDs will disrupt trademark protection strategies – WIPO - The introduction of new generic top-level domains (gTLD) will be responsible for a disruption in existing strategies for trademark protection on the web, according to the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO). During 2012 companies and organisations submitted over 1,900 applications for 1,400 distinct new domain names under the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers’ (ICANN) gTLD programme. “Trademark owners have been facing significant uncertainty in the ... read more ...

Trademark holders fear ‘cybersquatters’ as Web names grow - GENEVA – The mass expansion of Internet domain names could cause havoc for the defense of trademarks in cyberspace, the U.N.’s intellectual property body warned Monday. “We have this extraordinary expansion that is going on,” said Francis Gurry, head of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), which oversees global rules against “cybersquatting.” “That is going to have an impact, which is likely to be significant, on trademark protection,” Gurry ... read more ...

Expansion of Domain Name Space May Shift Trademark Protection Strategies … – ag-IP - GENEVA - The unprecedented expansion of the Internet domain name space, until now dominated by .com and a handful of other generic top-level domains (gTLDs), is likely to disrupt existing strategies for trademark protection on the web, a press release by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) stated.   “Trademark owners have been facing significant uncertainty in the expansion of the Domain Name System (DNS) while at the same time working with reduced protection budgets,” said WIPO ... read more ...

Web revolution could hit trademarks - 2014-03-17 09:32 (AP) Multimedia   ·   User Galleries   ·   News in Pictures Send us your pictures  Â·  Send us your stories Geneva - The mass expansion of internet domain names could cause havoc for the defence of trademarks in cyberspace, the UN's intellectual property body warned on Monday."We have this extraordinary expansion ... read more ...

Web domain name revolution could hit trademark defense - GENEVA - The mass expansion of Internet domain names could cause havoc for the defense of trademarks in cyberspace, the UN's intellectual property body warned on Monday. "We have this extraordinary expansion that is going on," said Francis Gurry, head of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), which oversees global rules against cybersquatting. "That is going to have an impact, which is likely to be significant, on trademark protection. The exact nature of the impact, we aren't ... read more ...

Sen. Rockefeller Doesn’t Want Us To Have A .Sucks Domain Name - [ Technology] In 2012, ICANN let corporations, organizations and individuals apply for generic top level domain names. Google and Amazon were especially aggressive in applying for the new gTLDs with both companies applying for domains like .fun, .app and .amazon. There were, however, some more bizarre gTLD applications and one senator has taken offense to one of them. Market Watch reports that Sen. Jay Rockefeller is not a fan of the application ... read more ...

Afilias Welcomes .ONL and .RICH to the Internet - Global registry services provider Afilias today announced the completion of technical preparations to activate the new .ONL and .RICH generic top-level domains (gTLD) on the global Internet. Managed by Berlin, Germany-based I-REGISTRY Ltd., the .ONL and .RICH gTLDs are unique propositions for a Web presence. The .ONL domain is designed to be a quick way of saying "I'm online" and fits all situations, whether growing a business, building a community or creating a personal space. .ONL can ... read more ...

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UNO Opens Their Doors to General Availability - More Related Stories email article print page <![CDATA[ ]]> Beginning March 19th .UNO domains, the first web extension dedicated to the Spanish-speaking world, will become available for purchase by the general public March 13, 2014 -- KANSAS CITY, Mo., March 13, 2014 /PRNewswire-iReach/ -- On March 19th .UNO joins dozens of other new gTLDs that have recently been made available for ... read more ...

After a Slow Start, New Domain Extensions Gathering Steam – ResellerClub … - Download image ... read more ...

Senator Jay Rockefeller Opposes the ‘.sucks’ Domain - Jay Rockefeller, the Democratic Senator from West Virginia, came out strongly this week against the ‘.sucks’ top-level domain, which he described as “little more than a predatory shakedown scheme.” Some background: generic top-level domains (gTLDs) are the endings of URLs, such as .com, .edu, .gov, and of course, .biz. ICANN, the international group that administers the domain name system, is currently in the process of considering and distributing hundreds of new top-level domains. These ... read more ...

US senator attacks ‘.sucks’ web address plans - AFP US senator attacks '.sucks' web address plansWashington (AFP) - A high-ranking US senator urged Internet regulators Wednesday to pull the plug on a proposed online neighborhood for website addresses ending in ".sucks." Senator John (Jay) Rockefeller argued in a letter to the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers that such an Internet zone aimed to compel companies to buy addresses for the sole purpose of preventing someone from using them and potentially discredit ... read more ...

Senator calls .sucks domains ‘predatory shakedown scheme,’ but Seattle-area … - Senator Jay Rockefeller, via Flickr Want to register Congress.sucks? How about Target.sucks? Or Amazon.sucks? Not so fast. Senator Jay Rockefeller of West Virginia, who chairs the Senate’s Commerce Committee, wrote a letter to ICANN today arguing that the organization which controls all of the domain name registration on the Internet should not allow companies to start registering websites with the top level domain (gTLD) of .sucks. In bold language, Rockefeller described the possible ... read more ...

U.S. senator rejects ‘sucks’ as online neighborhood - A high-ranking U.S. senator urged Internet regulators Wednesday to pull the plug on a proposed online neighborhood for website addresses ending in ".sucks."Senator John (Jay) Rockefeller argued in a letter to the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers that such an Internet zone aimed to compel companies to buy addresses for the sole purpose of preventing someone from using them."I view it as little more than a predatory shakedown scheme," the chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee ... read more ...

Patton Boggs Partners Offer Brand Owners Advice on Infringement Risks … - Tweet Tamlin Bason’s Interview with George Borababy and Deborah Lodge George Borababy, a partner in Patton Boggs, specializes in ... read more ...

Are You Missing the .BOAT? - Image: psd/Flickr Are you a small or medium business? Have you ever heard of the TMCH or Trademark Clearinghouse? Do you know what a new gTLD is? If the answer to the last two questions is “no,” you’re not alone. It’s becoming very clear that awareness of gTLDs and the TMCH is not what it should be. gTLD stands for generic top level domain — it’s what comes to the right of the dot in an internet address. .com and .net are the most common, but new gTLDs, almost 1,000 of them, ... read more ...