Verisign Working On Getting Contract To Operate .Com Registry For 10 More Years - In the earnings call today, Verisign (VRSN) announced that it was in “in the final stages of drafting the new Root Zone Maintainer Agreement with ICANN “to perform this Root Zone Maintainer role as a commercial service for ICANN upon the successful transition of the IANA functions.”
“To ensure that root operations continue to perform at the same high level during the expected 10-year term of the Root Zone Maintainer Agreement, ICANN and VeriSign are in discussions to extend the term of the ... read more ...
Tag Archives: INTA
Fri 12th February 2016
Tue 1st May 2012
.XXX registry and many other domain companies conduct to INTA assembly subsequent week -
There’s money in brand protection.
9,000 people are expected to attend the International Trademark Association (INTA) annual meeting in Washington, DC May 5-9. Some of the topics on the agenda for next week include domain names and how companies can protected their brands in an expanding top level name space.
There will be a lot of domain name companies in attendance. Here are some that are exhibiting:
101domain.com
DomainTools
GoDaddy
ICM Registry (.xxx registry)
Key-Systems
Marksmen ... read more ...
Tue 12th January 2010
Trademark Group Hijacks New TLD Comments -
INTA asks members to submit comments in opposition to Expressions of Interest for new TLDs.
Last month ICANN opened up a comment period on its Draft Expressions of Interest/Pre-Registrations Model (EOI), which I’ve written about before.
I checked in today hoping to see some constructive comments on the EOI draft, such as costs and procedures. Instead, I was greeted with short, terse comments such as:
“I do not support ICANN’s acceptance of pre-registrations ... read more ...