Know Your Net: CADNA and BBB Launch Public Awareness, Education Campaign – Virtual - Preparing for an Expanded Internet Washington, DC (PRWEB) September 12, 2013 Rep. Tom Marino, R-PA., Vice Chairman of the House subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property, and the Internet, will address the kickoff event Wednesday, September 18, 2013, of a month-long education campaign about new generic top-level domains (gTLDs). Sponsored by the Coalition Against Domain Name Abuse (CADNA) and the Council of Better Business Bureaus (BBB), the education campaign is intended to raise public ... read more ...

Demand Media Names Wayne MacLaurin Senior Vice President of Technology … - Demand Media Welcomes Wayne MacLaurin as Senior Vice President of Technology for United TLD World-Class Registry Strengthens Technology Resources to Focus on New gTLDs Kirkland, Washington – September 11, 2013 –Demand Media (NYSE: DMD), a leading media and domain services company, today is pleased to announce its recent hire of Wayne MacLaurin, who joins the company as Senior Vice President of Technology for United TLD, a Demand Media subsidiary. United TLD is investing in infrastructure ... read more ...

ICANN’s Amazon problem - Domain name issues continue to make the news.  We recently wrote an article about the new Generic Top Level Domain Names (gTLDs) that people have been speaking about for some time, and that are likely to start making an appearance later this year.  This new system, of course, allows for the registration of generic words, geographic names and brand names as top level names, so you can expect to see just about anything in months to come -  .lawyer, .africa, .zulu, .google. But competition for ... read more ...

TechRadar Confuses A Pre-Reservation With An Actual Registration; Telling … - TechRadar.com covered the new gTLD program telling people that new gTLD are available to be registered now. “New top-level domains now available” “.online, .web, .ltd, .website, and .blog just some of the suffixes available” The publication clearly has confused a pre-registration that many registrars and back order providers are offering with a domain registration. Of course none of the string mentioned by TechRadar; “.online, .web, .ltd, .website, and .blog are available for registration. Matter ... read more ...

New domains get launch date - By mid-July 2014, South Africans will be able to register for four new domains, .africa, .joburg, .capetown and .durban. By Craig Wilson. Added by Craig Wilson on 9 September 2013.Saved under A, News, TopTags: Icann, Neil Dundas, ZA Central Registry, ZACR Tweet Neil Dundas The ZA Central Registry (ZACR), which administers the .co.za domain and will soon oversee four new geographic generic top-level domains (gTLDs), says the ... read more ...

New gTLDs: The Registry Lock - Last week, The New York Times website domain was hacked by "the Syrian Electronic Army". Other famous websites faced the same attack in 2012 by the Hacker group "UGNazi" and, in 2011 by Turkish hackers. Basically, it seems that no Registrar on the Internet is safe from attack, but the launching of new gTLDs can offer new ways to mitigate these attacks. Back-end Registries play an important role supporting new-to-be Registry Operators The back-end Registry provider is the technical partner ... read more ...

1&1 Runs New gTLD Commercial - If you’re watching the NFL today, you may have seen one of (if not the) first new gTLD television commercials. Domain registrar 11 ran the commercial I embedded above. It’s all about notifying the general public about the new gTLDs that are coming, and it implores people to pre-reserve a new domain name now. It’s interesting that the company has already started marketing the new gTLDs to the general public. I would assume other registrars are going to have to follow suit to make ... read more ...

DotConnectAfrica Refuses to Withdraw its Application for .Africa before … - Sophia Bekele – Refusing to Withdraw before Accountability HearingIn a summary analysis, The Reporter Daily provided an upto date investigative report on the status of the dotafrica (.africa) project and the complicated issues that DCA has been subjected to in its application regarding Governmental Support. A delayed evaluation "pass" score for .Africa competition, as DotConnectAfrica refuses to withdraw before Accountability Hearing. The fight for .africa web domain continues as ICANN ... read more ...

Islamic Republic of Iran Wants .Islam and .Halal Managed and Operated by the … - The Islamic Republic of Iran in a letter to ICANN said that the new gTLD applications of .ISLAM and .HALAL “should be managed and operated by the Muslim community through a neutral body that represents the different sections and segments of the Muslim community including Governments, NGOs and IGOs, Private Sector, Academia, as different stakeholders of internet in the this community.” The applicant for .islam and .halal is a private corporation, Asia Green IT System Bilgisayar San. ve Tic. ... read more ...

Examples of Where ICANN Can Be More Accountable - During the "GNSO Discussion with the CEO" at the recent ICANN meeting in Durban, I stated that ICANN talks a lot about the importance of supporting the public interest, but in reality the organization's first priority is protecting itself and therefore it avoids accountability and works very hard at transferring risks to others. In response to my comments, ICANN CEO Fadi Chehadé asked me to provide him examples of where ICANN can be more accountable. Copied below is my response letter to Chehadé, ... read more ...

ICANN winnows down possible new gTLDs - The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers says it's winnowed down the number of potential new generic top level domains to 1,745 possibilities after having concluded the initial evaluation phase. ICANN has already signed registry agreements allowing for new gTLDs--the Arabic word for "web or network," the Russian word for "online," and for "website," and the Chinese word for "game." Among the proposed web suffixes that won't be permitted is .patagonia, which outdoor wear maker ... read more ...

WTR: Chats About How Radix Is Planning on Marketing Its New gTLD’s - The WorldTrademarkReview.com, published a story on Radix this morning and applicant for 29 new gTLD’s and spoke to Sandeep Ramchandani, business head of Radix , on how the company would market its offerings. Radix’s marketing strategy is two-fold.” “It plans to leverage its relationships with registrar channels as well as offering extensions directly to specific industries through direct marketing to brand owners.” “On the company’s string selection process, Ramchandani explains: ... read more ...

ICANN′s Trademark Clearinghouse (TMCH): Key considerations for brand … - In a previous article, we reported that the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) had established the Trademark Clearinghouse (TMCH) to assist brand owners to protect their trade marks in the new generic top-level domain names (gTLD) world. gTLDs have traditionally referred to the last letters of a domain name, for example, '.com', '.org' and '.net'. Under the new gTLD registration scheme, many have applied to register a wide variety of new gTLDs ranging from generic terms ... read more ...

PCadvisor.co.uk Open Poll On Whether People Are Aware / Interested In New … - PCadvisor.co.uk,  just opened a poll today on what readers think about the new gTLD domain name program. Its one of the first open polls I have seen on the subject in a non-domainer publication. The poll asks: With the launch of new domain names are you: Planning to buy one Already on the pre-registration list Never heard of them Not interested It will be interesting to see what the results look like if they can get thousands of votes. So far only 25 votes are recorded with 20% planning on ... read more ...

CENTRALNIC LTD. : Admission to trading on AIM – 4 - CENTRALNIC GROUP PLC ("CentralNic" or "the Company") Admission to trading on AIM CentralNic Group PLC, an internet registry service provider which derives revenues from the sale of internet domain names (such as avon.uk.com), is pleased to announce that dealings in its shares on AIM will commence today following a placing and vendor placing at 55p per share, raising a total of £7 million before expenses. Zeus Capital ... read more ...

DIRECTV Wins Unanimous Decision from WIPO in gTLD Legal Rights Objection … - On July 29, 2013, the World Intellectual Property Organization (“WIPO”) denied DISH Network’s application to operate the generic top-level domain name “.DIRECT” after DIRECTV Group Inc. filed its Legal Rights Objection against DISH.  DIRECTV was represented by two Arent Fox LLP partners, one of whom was Sarah L. Bruno who is a 2003 graduate of American University Washington College of Law.  WIPO rarely issues decisions in favor of the trademark ... read more ...

ICANN Declares Initial Evaluation Of New gTLD’s Over But There Are 29 To Go … - In a press release this afternoon ICANN proudly announced that the “Initial Evaluation (IE) phase of the new generic Top-Level Domains (gTLD) program is concluded.” “This is an extraordinary landmark which demonstrates the progress in this program,” said Akram Atallah, President of ICANN’s Generic Domains Division. “We are looking forward to the innovations that these new introductions will enable on the Internet.” “Out of the 1,930 new gTLD applications submitted, a total of ... read more ...

ICANN Announces Conclusion of New gTLD Initial Evaluations [PR] - Major Milestone Reached in New Domain Program Los Angeles, California ICANN’s Generic Domains Division announced today the conclusion of the Initial Evaluation (IE) phase of the new generic Top-Level Domains (gTLD) program. More than 1,700 applications have now moved to the next steps in the program. “This is an extraordinary landmark which demonstrates the progress in this program,” said Akram Atallah, President of ICANN’s Generic Domains Division. “We are looking forward ... read more ...

101 New gTLD Pass ICANN IE; 8 Go To Extended Evaluation; Passing .Sex … - 101 new gTLD applications passed ICANN Initial Evaluation today. 8 applications are heading for extended evaluation. Like last week one of the applicants who filed Legal Rights Objections to all other applicants own application got flagged for extended evaluation this time Defender Security Company  application for .home. Another application heading to extended evaluation is the Lance Armstrong Foundations application for .livestrong The 8 new gTLD applications which were classified as eligible ... read more ...

Roundup: News from Optimum, Tagboard, BoldIQ, Twitter, IV, and Donuts - Benjamin Romano8/30/13Follow @bromano It turns out Seattle’s Optimum Energy gained some significant strategic investors in its latest financing round. Read on for details on that, plus funding for Tagboard and BoldIQ; new Seattle offices for Twitter and a DC presence for Intellectual Ventures; and another dozen (gTLDs for) Donuts. —Optimum Energy‘s ... read more ...

Donuts Completes Initial Evaluations For All Applications, Signs 12 Additional … - BELLEVUE, Wash., Aug. 30, 2013 -- Largest applicant moves further toward delegation of new generic top-level domainsBELLEVUE, Wash., Aug. 30, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Donuts Inc., a registry for new generic top-level domains (gTLDs), has completed three additional significant steps toward launch of its applied-for gTLDs.The company said all of its pending gTLD applications have passed Initial Evaluation, an exhaustive review process that determines the financial and technical fitness ... read more ...