1&1 Owner of Mail.com Withdraws Application For New gTLD .Mail - 11 Mail Media GmbH, whose parent company is United Internet AG, just withdrew its application to operate the new gTLD  .Mail. I think this is a very meaningful withdrawal because of the fact that as the applicant owns Mail.com and stands to be the biggest benfificaly of having the .Mail new gTLD and the most at risk for loss of business to a .Mail new gTLD. .Mail for this particular application, would have be a either big business opportunity or a big defensive play and they simply withdrew ... read more ...

ICANN gTLDs: When Names Are Borrowed from an Atlas – CircleID - When names are borrowed from an Atlas, things happen. Use of Geographic names have always caused some problems for two reasons; one they are in the public domain so anyone else can use them and two they connote that business is confined to just that geographic area. Like Paris Bakery, Waterloo Furniture or London Bank. Geographic naming was the biggest thing during last couple of centuries, as using name of a village or a city as a moniker was considered being on top of the hill. The sudden ... read more ...

NABP’s Vision for .PHARMACY Generic Top-Level Domain Provides a Secure … - MOUNT PROSPECT, Ill., April 15, 2013 -- MOUNT PROSPECT, Ill. , April 15, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- By ensuring that only legitimate Internet pharmacies will be able to use its proposed .PHARMACY domain suffix, National Association of Boards of Pharmacy® (NABP®) intends to create a secure and trustworthy online space for consumers around the world. Because the means to easily recognize safe online pharmacies is important for consumers worldwide, NABP will make the new domain available ... read more ...

NABP’s Vision for .PHARMACY Generic Top-Level Domain Provides a Secure … - MOUNT PROSPECT, Ill. , April 15, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- By ensuring that only legitimate Internet pharmacies will be able to use its proposed .PHARMACY domain suffix, National Association of Boards of Pharmacy(R) (NABP(R)) intends to create a secure and trustworthy online space for consumers around the world. Because the means to easily recognize safe online pharmacies is important for consumers worldwide, NABP will make the new domain available to legitimate online pharmacies and related ... read more ...

Domain name update: the Trademark Clearinghouse is now accepting … - As Gray Plant Mooty previously reported, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) is poised to allow companies to operate new Generic Top-Level Domains (gTLDs) (URL extensions to the right of the “dot”) in the coming months. ICANN currently anticipates that the first group of new gTLDs could be operational by the end of June 2013 (although previous estimates have been off by several months). Effective March 26, 2013, and continuing thereafter, trademark owners can register ... read more ...

Trademark Clearinghouse to assist in cybersquatter battle - Following on from the proposed significant expansion in the number of new generic Top Level Domains (gTLDs) ICANN launched the Trademark Clearinghouse (TMCH) on March 26. This is a central database which will provide trademark owners and licensees with added protection from cybersquatting and online infringement. The TMCH allows for trademark registration for periods of either 3, 5 or 7 years and the cost per year will be dependent on the number of trademarks registered and the length of registration. ... read more ...

Domain Names Like .Food May Leave Bad Taste - A group of the world's largest digital certificate authorities (CAs) is warning of potentially serious security and networking risks for businesses when Internet domain names ending in the likes of .food or .law soon join .com and other currently available suffixes. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) is readying the release of thousands of new generic top-level domains (gTLDs). Approved domains could become available as soon as April 23. Therein lies an underlying cause ... read more ...

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The new gTLDs from ICANN are coming: plan, don’t panic - By now, brand owners are probably aware of the new generic top-level domains (gTLDs) from the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). They may have received literature from various sources about recording trademarks with the Trademark Clearinghouse and preparing for the first deployment of new gTLDs. There is no cause for alarm yet, however, and ample time to formulate a thoughtful, cost-effective strategy. We can help. Updated Information It is important to have the most ... read more ...

A Singular Problem - The fate of plural/single-term contention sets is a hot topic in Beijing. Most people watching the new gTLD application process expected ICANN to approve either just one plural or singular term for each contention set. For example, either .CAREER or .CAREERS, would proceed to launch, but not both. Allowing both the singular and the plural of a particular term would just be too confusing, right?Well, it’s not too confusing for ICANN, as the tealeaf readers suspected in late February when ICANN announced ... read more ...

Google U-turns on exclusive snatch of .app AND .search addys - Google has been forced to abandon its bid to grab exclusive use of the web address extensions .app, .blog, .search and .cloud - after it was warned the move was anti-competitive. Late last year, the advertising giant applied for the four generic top-level domains (gTLDs) to internet overseer ICANN, which is charging companies to take control of new suffixes to supplement the established TLDs such as .com, .org and .uk. A business holding, say, .news could sell domain names such as theregister.news ... read more ...

In wake of top-level domain security criticism, ICANN announces emergency … - IDG News Service - The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has selected three emergency back-end registry operators to guarantee domain names within a new generic top-level domain (gTLD) will resolve in the event of a failure at a new TLD operator, it said on Tuesday. [ALSO: Groups say ICANN unprepared for gTLD launch] The China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC), U.S. based Neustar and the U.K. based Nominet were selected, the ICANN ... read more ...

The .Domain Change Is Weeks Away; How Marketers Should Prepare - custom_html We are just weeks away from a new internet era, when there will be a 6,000% expansion of website domains available for internet users. While this level of growth sounds exciting, it may hold more threat than promise for marketers. Over the past year, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers has accepted applications from companies seeking brand-centric generic top-level domains, such as .netflix or .microsoft, as well as more broad-reaching gTLDs ... read more ...

Trademark Clearinghouse and the new gTLDs - The new Generic Top-Level Domain (gTLD) expansion program developed by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) includes a Trademark Clearinghouse (TMCH), which was set to go into effect beginning March 26, 2013. The TMCH will serve as a central registry of nationally or regionally registered trademarks, court-validated marks, and marks protected by statute or treaty. As a repository, the TMCH functions (1) to authenticate contact information and verify mark ownership rights; ... read more ...