ICANN Kills Google’s Dotless Domain Dreams - Back in April, Google sent a letter to ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, proposing a dotless domain system that would make use of the gTLDs, generic top-level domains, that Google had applied to manage. The proposal, if accepted, would allow computer users to type in words in their url in order to produce desired search results more quickly. ICANN shot down the proposal, citing that security and stability issues that dotless domains would cause. They also raised ... read more ...

NGPC Begins Consideration of 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 August 13, 2013 to begin consideration of the GAC's further advice regarding new gTLD applications in the GAC Durban Communiqué, issued on 18 July 2013.   According to ICANN, the NGPC is developing a GAC scorecard similar to the one used to address the Beijing Advice as well as during the GAC and the Board meetings in Brussels on February 28 and March 1, 2011. Each ... read more ...

NY Times Covers New gTLD’s: “Like Derivatives on Wall Street, They Have No … - The New Tork Times just covered the coming new gTLD’s and quotes a number of sources which give some juicy quotes like the one in the title which came from  Esther Dyson Some of the new gTLD’s getting a mention in the article were: .bible, .blog, .family, .game, .gay and .pizza. The article quotes  Akram Atallah, from  ICANN who says: “With .com and .net, if you wanted a nice name, it’s all taken,” “The idea of new gTLD’s is to provide real-estate availability in the market.” “The ... read more ...

New gTLDs: If I Knew Then, What I Know Now… - If only I had been able to predict the new gTLD future, but alas my crystal ball (well, really it's a Magic 8 Ball ®) did little to help me. And I really doubt that 5+ years ago, when this new gTLD journey began, that anyone could have predicted where we are now. All that said, back in 2008, I wish I could have known that: Contention Sets Would be Based Upon Poor Eyesight I remember very clearly having discussions about whether something like .place and .theplace would fall into a contention ... read more ...

Clashes, collisions, delays and decisions: ICANN, NTIA, Verisign and ANA … - Last week, ICANN (the organization that oversees the domain name system of the Internet) was busy with nothing less than the security and stability of the Internet. At ICANN’s recent meeting in Durban, those of us attending heard a drumbeat of studies, presentations and concerns regarding "name collisions": the conflicts that will arise when new gTLDs go live and conflict with existing top-level extensions in private networks. For years, standard practice has been to use "internal domains" in ... read more ...

DigiCert Internal Name Tool Helps Administrators Prepare MS Exchange … - LEHI, UT--(Marketwired - August 15, 2013) -  DigiCert, Inc., a leading global authentication and encryption provider, helps network administrators prepare their security environments for ICANN's pending release of new gTLDs with the DigiCert® Internal Name Tool for Microsoft Exchange (Internal Name Tool). The free SAAS application provides a step-by-step guide to help administrators reconfigure their MS Exchange 2013 and earlier version Exchange servers to ... read more ...

8 New gTLD Private Auctions Produce $9.65 Million - Innovative Auctions today announced the successful completion of the second Applicant Auction. Winners in the auction will pay a total of $9,651,000 after resolving contention for eight new generic top-level domains (gTLDs). The winners for the eight contention sets included in this week’s auction were: .guide: Donuts, Inc .construction: Donuts, Inc .storage: Extra Space Storage (NYSE:EXR) .desi: Desi Networks LLC .expert: Donuts, Inc .fishing: Minds + Machines, a subsidiary of Top Level Domain ... read more ...

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DigiCert Internal Name Tool Helps Administrators Prepare MS Exchange … - LEHI, UT--(Marketwired - August 15, 2013) -  DigiCert, Inc., a leading global authentication and encryption provider, helps network administrators prepare their security environments for ICANN's pending release of new gTLDs with the DigiCert® Internal Name Tool for Microsoft Exchange (Internal Name Tool). The free SAAS application provides a step-by-step guide to help administrators reconfigure their MS Exchange 2013 and earlier version Exchange servers to ... read more ...

United States: Clashes, Collisions, Delays And Decisions: ICANN, NTIA … - Last week, ICANN (the organization that oversees the domain name system of the Internet) was busy with nothing less than the security and stability of the Internet. At ICANN's recent meeting in Durban, those of us attending heard a drumbeat of studies, presentations and concerns regarding "name collisions": the conflicts that will arise when new gTLDs go live and conflict with existing top-level extensions in private networks. For years, standard practice has been to use "internal domains" in private ... read more ...

Protecting brands in new generic top-level domains (gTLDs) - New generic top-level domains (gTLDs) will be introduced in the near future with the initial evaluation of applications anticipated to be completed by August 2013. For brand owners, there will be new ways to protect their trade marks from conflicting domain names within these new gTLDs. Failure to take appropriate measures may result in loss of brand protection in these new domains or the need for dispute resolution activities to regain control of the brand. What is a gTLD? The Internet Corporation ... read more ...

Sedo Revamps Q2 2013 Domain Market Study With Infographic As Market … - Submit |RSS|Print|Comments Loading... Leading Internet Domain Name Marketplace Powers Second Quarter Transactions Worth $17.5 Million, Representing 160 Countries and 118 Different ExtensionsSedo, the world’s largest premium domain marketplace and monetization provider, today issued its domain market study for the second quarter of 2013, revealing domain industry trends and changes based on transactions in its marketplace. During the quarter, Sedo powered 9,589 transactions with a mean ... read more ...

.XYZ One Of The 1st New gTLD’s To Launch Opens Up Pre-Registration - The registry for the new gTLD .XYZ has just opened up preregistrations. While preregistrations for new gTLD’s is nothing new the fact that this is being done at the registry level is different. Many registrars and auction houses opened up preregistrations over the last couple of years but in this case it is the registry itself taking the preregistrations. As always there is no cost to preregister a .XYZ domain name however the preregistration does not give you any rights to the domain. .XYZ ... read more ...

USPTO: You Will Have To Contract WIth ICANN Before Applying For a … - Under the USPTO proposed examination guide, entitled “Applications for Marks Comprised of gTLDs for Domain Name Registration or Registry Services,” you will have to have a contract with ICANN to operate a new gTLD registry before you apply for a trademark for the gTLD: “The applicant must show that: (i) it has entered into a currently valid agreement with ICANN (a “Registry Agreement”) designating the applicant as the entity responsible for operation of the registry, i.e., maintaining ... read more ...

USPTO Opens Up Comment Period On Examation Guide For New gTLD’s … - The USPTO has just opened up a comment period for an Examination Guide on trademark applications for new gTLD’s. The comment period closes on September 8th 2013 The examination guide is called “Applications for Marks Comprised of gTLDs for Domain Name Registration or Registry Services,” and the USPTO is looking for “constructive input on examination guides before they are finalized, a draft version of an examination guide on marks comprised of gTLDs is being made available now for comment”. The ... read more ...

Protect your brands in the new domain name regime: the Trademark … - New generic top-level domain names (gTLDs) such as .fun, .law, and .money have been in the works for a very long time, and the first batch may be just around the corner.  ICANN recently published a “hypothetical” timeline that pins the first top-level domain delegation date (the date the gTLD becomes active) as September 5, 2013.  Whether this date is ICANN’s wishful thinking or not, the new gTLDs are coming, and maybe as early as this fall.  With the first delegations in sight, this is ... read more ...

Recording your brands in the Trademark Clearinghouse for the new gTLD … - It is anticipated that the first new gTLDs may be delegated as early as September. While there has been slippage of the launch date in the past, it surely will happen soon. The first new gTLDs to be delegated will be the 100 or so “internationalized” gTLDs (those in non-Latin scripts such as Chinese, Arabic, or Cyrillic). Once the process gets rolling, ICANN believes it can delegate as many as 20 new gTLDs per week. There are approximately 1,300 possible new gTLDs that may soon coexist with ... read more ...

Trade mark owner wins right to block proposed new ‘top-level’ domain – Out - Del Monte International (DMI) had applied to register '.delmonte' as a new gTLD under an expanded system of domains being set up by ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers), the body that oversees the identification of websites. However, Del Monte Corporation (DMC) challenged DMI's right to do so and asserted its right to the 'del monte' trade mark it owns for a range of fresh and canned food. A panel at the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) Arbitration and Mediation ... read more ...

Protect Your Brands In The New Domain Name Regime: The Trademark … - New generic top-level domain names (gTLDs) such as .fun, .law, and .money have been in the works for a very long time, and the first batch may be just around the corner. ICANN recently published a "hypothetical" timeline that pins the first top-level domain delegation date (the date the gTLD becomes active) as September 5, 2013. Whether this date is ICANN's wishful thinking or not, the new gTLDs are coming, and maybe as early as this fall. With the first delegations in sight, this is a good time ... read more ...

Search by keyword - You might have seen some articles recently about developments in the general top-level domain (gTLD) space (we previously posted about ICANN’s new gTLD program here and here). Last week, the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) Panel handed down its decision in response to a Legal Rights Objection, which will allow Telstra Corporation Limited (Telstra) to operate the gTLD .yellowpages. We acted for Telstra. Background All internet users are now accustomed to seeing a range of existing ... read more ...

Verisign’s New Letter To NTIA On New gTLD’s: Its Important to Differentiate … - In a letter send by Verisign today to the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA), U.S. Department of Commerce; Verisign made it clear it is ready, willing and able to delegate up to 20 new gTLD’s to the root upon request of the NTIA but it also  made clear that it doesn’t advise that the 1,000 new gTLD strings a year get delegated to the root saying: “The introduction of delegations of new gTLDs into the root zone, it is important to differentiate between “ability” ... read more ...

What Happens Beyond Dot Com? Litigation! - Web addresses are undergoing major changes this year. Familiar domain suffixes like .com, .net, .edu, and .org will soon be accompanied by new ones like .pizza, or .google, or .portland. Why? Because the organization that is more-or-less responsible for running the Web, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN ), is claiming that the current market is overcrowded with domain names. ICANN says this prevents smaller companies with weaker Internet presences from obtaining ... read more ...

Amazon’s Domain Name Troubles Threaten ICANN Program - A recommendation made last month by a committee from ICANN, the nonprofit organization that coordinates Internet domains, to reject Amazon.com Inc.’s application for the domain “.amazon” may end up undermining the largest-ever expansion of domains suffixes, which are also known as generic top-level domains (gTLDs). The Government Affairs Committee of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) recommended at a July meeting in Durban, South Africa, that ICANN’s ... read more ...

gTLD Security Study Released – Delays Up Ahead - The results of a new study on the security risks of proposed generic Top-Level Domain (gTLD) names likely will lead to delays of many new gTLD applications by at least four months. The majority of new gTLDs are “low risk” and got the green light to proceed, although these “low risk” applicants must still wait 120 days after signing their contracts before they can activate any domain names in their gTLDs. Higher risk applications could be delayed longer.It is common practice among enterprises ... read more ...