Tag Archives: gTLDs

Wed 25th September 2013
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Donuts Launches Domain Trademark Protection Service - Donuts, the domain name registry companies targeting the emerging generic, top-level domain name (gTLD) market, has launched a new service aimed at protecting trademarks across its portfolio of gTLDs, the company announced today. Donuts--which has major operations in Los Angeles--said that its new Domains Protected Marks List (DPML) service will allow trademark owners to protect all of their terms, across its range of gTLDs, at a cost significantly less than the usual practice of defensively registering ... read more ...
Tue 24th September 2013
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As Trademark Protection in New gTLDs Becomes Increasingly Critical to Brand … -  News    Images As Trademark Protection in New gTLDs Becomes Increasingly Critical to Brand Owners, Trademark Clearinghouse Agent FairWinds Educates Brands on TMCH Services PRWEB.COM Newswire Washington, D.C. (PRWEB) September 24, 2013 FairWinds Partners, a domain name consulting firm, is working to help legal, IT and marketing professionals better understand and use the Trademark Clearinghouse (TMCH) as the first new gTLDs get ready to launch over the next ... read more ...
 
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New gTLDs – it’s a (.amazon) jungle out there - The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) is, at last, preparing to roll out the first of the generic Top Level Domains (gTLD). Now is a good time for trade mark owners to ensure they are aware of current gTLD developments. .controversy ICANN has released an update on the fate of a number of controversial gTLDs. .Thai has been refused registration, with .indians and .persiangulf seemingly facing the same fate. Whilst the fate of the highly publicised .amazon gTLD, unfortunately ... read more ...
Mon 23rd September 2013
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Microsoft, Verisign & Yahoo! Sends Joint Letter To ICANN: We Want An Update … - In a joint letter Microsoft, Verisign and Yahoo! urged ICANN to study the Collission Mitigation Plan before allowing any “The undersigned companies and organizations submit this letter to express our significant concern regarding several unresolved stability and security issues associated with the upcoming delegation of new gTLDs.” “We understand that the New gTLD Applicant Group (NTAG) recently submitted a letter on these issues. While some of the undersigned are members or observers ... read more ...
Sat 21st September 2013
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CADNA: Costs Of Defensive New gTLD Registrations To Be Double The Total … - As pointed out by the Phil Corwin of the Internet Commerce Association (ICA) The Coalition Against Domain Name Abuse (CADNA) has launched another offensive at the new gTLD program teaming up with the Council of Better Business Bureaus (BBB) to launch a month-long “‘Know Your Net’ gTLD public awareness campaign” “Their goal is to enact amendments to the U.S. Anti-Cybersquatting Consumer Protection Act (ACPA) that would expand the law’s coverage beyond domain registrants by creating ... read more ...
Fri 20th September 2013
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Key Steps for Operational Readiness and Successful Launch of a New gTLD - 31 August 2013 marked a historic day for Internet users worldwide. It marked a very key day in the introduction of new gTLDs. On that day ICANN, who oversees the gTLD programme, six years in the making, announced the completion of gTLD Initial Evaluation (IE) results based applicant's ability to demonstrate their financial, technical and operational capability to operate and manage a TLD Registry. What did the IE results reveal? Back in January 2012 these 1930 applicants, made a key corporate ... read more ...
 
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There are 629 words you won’t be allowed to register as a web address - For the past year, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), a non-profit entity that runs the web’s naming system, has been wading through proposals for over 1,400 new generic top-level domains (gTLDs). These are the end bits of a web address, such as the .com in qz.com. ICANN wants to open up the internet’s naming system; some 2,000 companies have applied to control a piece of all the new internet real estate on offer. Forget about .com and .net. Pretty soon you ... read more ...
 
 
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Know Your Net: Internet Safety Education Campaign Launches – PR - The Coalition Against Domain Name Abuse (CADNA) and the Council of Better Business Bureaus (CBBB) Wednesday announced a public awareness campaign to educate businesses and consumers about Internet safety, particularly with the expected addition of more than one thousand top-level domains the text to the right of the dot in a web address. The Know Your Net Campaign consists of communicating best practices tips through the websites and social media channels of the campaign sponsors and other ... read more ...
 
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CENTRALNIC GROUP PLC : Notice of interim results and trading update – 4 - CENTRALNIC GROUP PLC ("CentralNic" or "the Company") Notice of interim results and trading update CentralNic (AIM: CNIC), the internet registry service provider which derives revenues from the worldwide distribution of internet domain names, will issue its interim results for the six months to 30 June 2013 on 25 September 2013. The Company states that trading continues to be in line with management ... read more ...
Thu 19th September 2013
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A safe house for marks in the domain revolution? - Make no mistake: momentum towards the new wave of generic Top-Level domains (gTLDs) is building, and the reality of a larger, more complex internet is gradually coming to fruition.As NewLegal Review’s recent coverage of the prospective ‘.food’ domain showed, competition over suffixes for which multiple parties have applied has been channelled into formal dispute proceedings at the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO). Soon, the winners of those disputes – who will become ... read more ...
Wed 18th September 2013
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Hospitality Brands Need To Prepare For GTLDs - Share us on: Twitter Facebook LinkedIn   0 Comments Law360, New York (September 18, 2013, 6:58 PM ET) -- With the launch of the first new generic top-level domains (gTLDs) just around the corner, brand owners in the hospitality industry need to educate themselves about the unique opportunities and challenges posed by this unprecedented expansion of the domain space.BackgroundHistorically, the most popular gTLDs included .com, .org, .net and .edu, with the majority of hospitality ... read more ...
 
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Internationalised gTLDs pose challenge for owners of multilingual brands - The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) devised the new generic top-level domain (gTLD) programme to open up new top-level domains, as popular domains such as '.com' become increasingly crowded. Although domain names displayed in non-ASCII scripts – known as internationalised domain names – are currently available as second and lower-level domains, the new gTLD programme will also allow internationalised domain name TLDs. ICANN received 116 applications for internationalised ... read more ...
 
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CPA+Global+takes+a+lead+in+helping+clients+protect+and+develop+their+ … - Posted on: 18 September 2013 Written by: Claire Middleton CPA Global, the world's leading intellectual property (IP) management and software specialist, announced today that it will be providing a range of support services to help clients protect and develop their brands online as the Internet domain space expands significantly through the new Generic Top Level Domains (gTLD) programme.   Services include support for new gTLD launches, monitoring ... read more ...
 
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CPA Global positioniert sich angesichts der Erweiterung des gTLD … - MÃœNCHEN, September 17, 2013 /PRNewswire/ --Unterstützung bei Anmeldungen neuer gTLDs und "Trademark Clearinghouse-Registrierungen"CPA Global, Weltmarktführer im Bereich Intellectual Property (IP)-Management und IP-Software, gab heute sein neues Supportservice-Angebot für Kunden bekannt, die ihre Marken im Zuge des neuen Generic Top Level Domain (gTLD)-Programms und der damit verbundenen Erweiterung des Namensraums online schützen und entwickeln wollen.     (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20130910/638525 ... read more ...
Tue 17th September 2013
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Neustar Analysis Shows ICANN Study Overstates Risk of Harmful Domain-Name … - A Methodology for Assessing Collision Risk and New gTLDsby Neustar (click to download)As we blogged about recently, Neustar is committed to ensuring that the domain name system is secure and stable and has been operating top-level domains (TLDs) for over a decade. Tuesday, Neustar submitted comments to the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) in response to ICANN's proposal to delay the launch of hundreds of new generic top-level domains (gTLDs). ICANN's decision to ... read more ...
 
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CPA Global Takes a Lead in Helping Clients Protect and Develop Their Brands … – Virtual - ALEXANDRIA, Virginia, September 17, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- CPA Global, the world's leading intellectual property (IP) management and software specialist, announced today that it will be providing a range of support services to help clients protect and develop their brands online as the Internet domain space expands significantly through the new Generic Top Level Domains (gTLD) program.      (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20130910/638525 )/ Services include support for new gTLD launches, ... read more ...
 
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Clearing the way for brands in the brave new web - The domains industry reached a milestone earlier this year with the long-awaited launch of the Trademark Clearinghouse (TMCH): a service designed to support trademark owners in the coming wave of new, generic Top-Level domains (gTLDs). Based at professional services firm Deloitte – under contract from domain governance group the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) – the TMCH will hold trademark ownership records and cross-reference them with incoming Domain ... read more ...
Mon 16th September 2013
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.bank, and .mutualfunds and .ira, oh my! - First, an update on .bank. As you may recall, fTLD Registry Services, a coalition of financial associations and institutions led by The Financial Services Roundtable and the American Bankers Association (ABA), filed a community application to operate the .bank gTLD; DotSecure, Inc. filed a standard application for the same .bank gTLD. While the initial examination of DotSecure’s application has not been completed as of the writing of this article (ICANN anticipates that Initial Evaluation results ... read more ...
 
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WIth Over 2500 Votes PC Advisor Poll On New gTLD’s Says 25% Of People Are … - Two weeks ago we told you that PCadvisor.co.uk opened up a poll on the new gTLD program Today total votes received broke the 2,500 mark and the results are pretty interesting. With 2,506 votes cast 25% of all voters said they planned to buy a new gTLD domain name although only 3% said they were on any sort of pre-registration list. 42% of the voters said they were not interested. 29% of the voter said they have never heard of new gTLD’s. Considering the fact that there are no new gTLD available ... read more ...
 
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NGPC Takes Action on GAC Durban Advice on New gTLDs – ag-IP - LOS ANGELES, CA - The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) Board New gTLD Program Committee (NGPC) met on September 10, 2013 and, among other things, reached a decision regarding the GAC's further advice on new gTLDs. According to the Corporation, the GAC conveyed its advice to the NGPC in its Durban Communiqué, issued on July 18, 2013. Applicants submitted responses to the advice on August 23, 2013. At its most recent meeting, the NGPC adopted the Durban Scorecard, available ... read more ...
Sun 15th September 2013
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The Discrepancy in Confusion and Similarity Decisions of New gTLDs - After more than half of the new gTLD String Confusion Objection determinations that have been published we have updated our popular chart which compares the Visual Similarity (determined by the SWORD tool) with the results of the String Confusion Objections. We found that there is a huge discrepancy in what has been expected in the ICANN community and what the "Experts" have be decided. Moreover there are contrary decisions for the same string pairs (e.g. .CAM/.COM and .COM/.ECOM). And interestingly ... read more ...
Thu 12th September 2013
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ICANN Signs Contract for .Sexy gTLD - MARINA DEL REY, Calif. — ICANN on Wednesday signed a contract with operators of the new .sexy gTLD to begin service. The .sexy gTLD was submitted by Uniregistry Corp. to provide Internet users and companies with a "sexy way to express their interests." Uniregistry, according to its application, plans to add directory services, traffic-generation toolkits and search-related functionalities that will promote the domain. In addition, it plans to implement safeguards to protect intellectual property. Three ... read more ...
 
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New gTLDs and the Trademark Clearinghouse: what does it mean for your … - Background In June 2011, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) launched the "New generic top-level domain (gTLD) Program". The program allows parties, through ICANN’s application process, to redefine endings for internet domain names beyond the core generic endings such as ‘.com’, ‘.net’ and ‘.org’. These new domain endings are known as the new gTLDs or ‘strings’. Should my business get involved? There are three ways businesses can become involved ... read more ...
 
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Reflections on EUI’s New Community Priority Evaluation Guidelines for New … - The new Community Priority Evaluation (CPE) guidelines prepared by the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU), and published by ICANN are now past their feedback period. We, at Radix, believe that ICANN has received feedback from approximately 10 stakeholders, and I for one, am looking forward to those being published. In light of the fact that none of the comments that ICANN received have been made public yet, I decided to blog about my multiple concerns with the new guidelines. Sparing a thought ... read more ...