Tag Archives: legal

Tue 22nd March 2005
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Hillary Clinton wins domain name - Hillary Clinton won the rights to hillaryclinton.com in a recent a National Arbitration Forum decision. It may have been a battle for Clinton to get her domain name, given that she’s a politician, but the owner of the domain didn’t even respond to the dispute. Furthermore, the owner had generic pay-per-click/portal information on the site. Generally speaking, political domain names can be registered by other people as a first amendment right. For example, ... read more ...
Mon 21st March 2005
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Domain Hijacking underneath ICANN’s new send policy - SearchEngineJournal.com has a great first-person story about trying to hold a domain name that is facing repeated hijacking attempts. ICANN’s policy used to require a confirmation from the current domain name owner before a transfer. Now the transfer is automatic after five days unless the current owner cancels the transfer. The new policy was created to help domain name owners–many times I tried to transfer domains held at poorly managed registrars only to ... read more ...
 
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Critical .eu assembly today - According to The Register, “The .eu domain may finally come alive, five years after its conception, following a meeting this coming Monday. ICANN will discuss “Delegation of .EU and EURid-ICANN Agreement” at a special board meeting on 21 March and if it gives it the green light then, well, then you might be able to actually buy an .eu domain by April 2006.” Read the article here. ... read more ...
Sat 19th March 2005
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.au to recover 20,000 geographic domain names -

.au, Austrialia’s CCtld, will mislay restrictions on 20,000 geographic domains opening them adult for registration. A full list of these domain names will be accessible in about 6 weeks, according to this article. Domains will not be auctioned off. If there is some-more than one applicant for a domain name, a lottery will be held.

Via: domainnamewire.com

Thu 17th March 2005
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ICANN might examination domain send procedures - Following its review of the Panix.com domain name hijacking (see ICANN blames Melbourne IT for Panix.com debacle), ICANN will review its recently implemented domain transfer procedures. In a letter about the hijacking, ICANN Chief Registrar Liaison Tim Cole says this incident could have occurred under the old policy as well and that the new policy had no bearing on it. However, he says the role of resellers in the transfer process should be reviewed. I disagree ... read more ...
Tue 15th March 2005
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ICANN blames Melbourne IT for Panix.com Debacle - Early reports are surfacing today that ICANN has concluded its investigation of the Panix.com domain name hijacking and placed the blame solely on registrar Melbourne IT, clearing Dotster of any wrong doing. ICANN chief registrar liaison Tim Cole said “ICANN considers this to have been one of the more serious breaches of its policies by an accredited registrar. We are also very concerned by Melbourne IT’s explanation that the incident happened because Melbourne ... read more ...
 
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Apple wins cybersquatting battle…for now -

Apple has won a rights to a itunes.co.uk domain…for now. we think stream owners Benjamin Cohen competence win a domain on appeal. This assumes that he is revelation a law about because he purebred a domain. It sounds some-more than plausible. For details, click here.

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Mon 14th March 2005
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Domain Name Embarrassment - Nothing says you’re an old school advertising agency like forgetting to renew your domain name…and having someone else pick it up. Adrants first broke a story about marketing firm ASABAILEY snapping Ogilvy Mather’s domain name. ASABAILEY then posted a clever picture with the phrase “”If you understood the modern brand… …you’d understand how to protect it.” Hopefully Ogilvy Mather will remember to renew next time. ... read more ...
Sat 12th March 2005
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Neutral celebration to weigh .NET field by Mar 28 - According to an announcement on ICANN’s web site, third-party evaluator Telcordia will provide a report about the 5 applicants for managing the .net extension by March 28. ICANN will post this report, along with Telcordia’s rankings, on its web site. I’ve always stressed how big of a deal registry management is. In the hands of the wrong people, you could see massive chaos as registry information is lost, domains dropped, etc. ... read more ...