Tag Archives: new tlds

Tue 13th August 2013
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First 12 New TLD fibre difficulty objections denied - ICDR panels deny first 12 string confusion objections. The International Centre for Dispute Resolution has issued its first 12 decisions regarding string confusion objections for new top level domain names. All 12 objections were denied. The denied objections were: Universal Postal Union vs. Deutsche Post AG for .epost The UPU operates the .post top level domain name. Verisign vs. Google for .new Verisign vs. NEC for .NEC Verisign vs. Donuts for .Vet Verisign vs. ... read more ...
 
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.Secure applicant files heading focus for SAFETLD - Artemis files application for SAFETLD mark for its .secure top level domain. Artemis Internet, part of NCC Group plc, has filed a trademark application with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office for “SAFETLD”, most likely tied to its .secure TLD bid. The company is one of two applicants for the .secure top level domain. It faces Amazon.com in the contention set. The trademark application (pdf) identifies the services as: Business services, namely, formulation ... read more ...
Mon 12th August 2013
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Demand Media gains $1.2 million from new TLD “withdrawals” - Demand Media records seven figure gain from new TLD withdrawals. Demand Media recorded a gain of $1.2 million last quarter from withdrawals of its interest in new top level domain name applications. Here’s how it’s worded in the company’s 10-Q filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission: In the three month period ended June 30, 2013, the net gain related to the withdrawals of our interest in certain gTLD applications was $1.2 million. The company ... read more ...
 
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Scripps Networks loses second new TLD objection, this one for .diy - Scripps learns that DIY, like the word Food, is generic. Scripps Networks has lost its second legal rights objection against a top level domain name application, this time losing .diy. It previously lost an objection for .food. Scripps, which owns home improvement media company DIY Network, filed the complaint against Google. Scripps and Google are the only two applicants for the domain name. Panelist Scott Blackmer determined that the term “DIY” is generic, standing ... read more ...
 
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TLDH to attend in 4 private domain auctions - Company will challenge three competitors in private auctions. Top Level Domain Holdings announced today that it will participate in 4 private auctions to settle top level domain contention sets. The four auctions will resolve these contention sets: .GUIDE (versus Donuts) .CASA (versus Donuts) .网址 (“web address” in Chinese) (versus HU YI GLOBAL INFORMATION RESOURCES) .FISHING (versus United TLD/Demand Media) Top Level Domain Holdings (TLDH) was initially opposed ... read more ...
Thu 8th August 2013
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How field comparison their new tip turn domains - Here’s how new TLD applicants decided which strings to apply for. Some new top level domain applicants picked one or two domains to apply for. Others applied for dozens. It would be interesting to be a fly on the wall when these companies debated about which ones to apply for. From talking to many applicants, I’ve discovered a number of approaches they took to creating and finalizing their list. The data junkie I crunched existing domain name, search, and marketing ... read more ...
 
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Verisign responds to NTIA: There’s a disproportion between “ability” and “advisability” - Verisign says it will agree to add lots of new TLDs to the root, but advises against it at this time. Verisign has responded to the U.S. National Telecommunications Information Administration (NTIA)’s demand that Verisign verify it will add new top level domains names to the root upon request. The company confirmed (pdf) that it will add new top level domains to the root, but essentially said “if something goes wrong, don’t say we didn’t tell you so.” The ... read more ...
Tue 6th August 2013
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Del Monte v. Del Monte: initial new TLD conflict to be upheld - Objector wins .delmonte Legal Rights Objection. If you look at the list of filed Legal Rights Objections for new top level domains, only a few stand out as plausible cases. One of those was Del Monte Corporation v. Del Monte International GmbH for .delmonte. Now that we have the details, it’s not surprising that this was a close case. Del Monte International GmbH is a licensee of Del Monte Corporation’s trademarks for Del Monte. Yet the former applied for .delmonte, ... read more ...
 
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After unconditional it underneath a rug, Name Collisions come behind to haunt new TLD program - Name collisions derail new top level domain name timeline. Everyone in the executive suite at Verisign must have been smiling this morning. That’s because ICANN dropped a bombshell, delaying a big portion of new top level domain names due to “name collisions”. It not only delays much of the program (as some have argued is Verisign’s goal in raising concerns), but also shows that Verisign isn’t crazy for raising its concerns. (Name collisions have been discussed ... read more ...
Sat 3rd August 2013
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NTIA dissapoint with Verisign, final that it endorse it will routine new TLD delegations - NTIA questions Verisign’s recent spate of concerns about new TLD rollout. ICANN has published a letter that Verisign sent to the U.S. National Telecommunications Information Administration (NTIA) regarding Verisign’s security and stability concerns for new top level domains as well as the NTIA’s response. The response shows that the NTIA doesn’t want Verisign playing any games. Verisign’s letter was sent May 31 and the NTIA’s response has an August 2 ... read more ...
Fri 2nd August 2013
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TLDH and Tucows group adult on 3 tip turn domain names - Two TLD applicants pool resources. Top Level Domain Holdings and Tucows are combining resources in an effort to lock down three top level domain names that are in contention sets. Tucows had applied for .group and TLDH applied for .tech and .store. By teaming up, each company will contribute to auction funds and take a minority interest in each others’ strings. Their amount of ownership will depend on how much money they contribute for the auctions. While the companies ... read more ...
Thu 1st August 2013
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The LRO is operative only fine, appreciate you - Weak cases leading to failed Legal Rights Objections. With objectors losing the first 25 decided Legal Rights Objections (LRO) to new top level domains, there are murmurs about whether or not LRO is working. The short answer: yes. The LRO was created to assuage fears that someone would cybersquat on a top level domain. Groups like Association for National Advertisers scared their constituents into thinking someone might apply for their well known brand. For example, ... read more ...
 
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Are Famous Four’s tip turn domain name projections realistic? - A new pitch deck for Domain Venture Partners details how much money it thinks a new top level domain registry can generate. In November I wrote about Domain Venture Partners’ pitch deck for new top level domain investors. Today I received a new pitch deck, dated June of this year, detailing the investment funds’ capital raise to date and its plans for a new fund. It also has projections for what a typical new TLD will generate. Domain Venture Partners is investing ... read more ...
Wed 31st July 2013
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Objection opposite Google’s .music bid rejected - First of seven objections filed by DotMusic Limited fails. DotMusic Limited’s legal rights objection to Google’s application for the .music top level domain name has been rejected. Officially, panelist David J.A. Cairns ruled that DotMusic Limited didn’t have standing to bring the case because it was unclear if it (or other entities) owned the marks asserted in the case. Nevertheless, Cairns went ahead and considered whether the objection would be approved even ... read more ...
Tue 30th July 2013
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Domain Name Association creates new TLD authority during WhatDomain.org - Domain Name Association publishes educational site to promote new TLDs. Domain Name Association (DNA), a non-profit advocacy group representing domain name registries, registrars, resellers, and registry service providers, has launched an updated site at WhatDomain.org. WhatDomain.org explains what a domain name is, the current state of top level domain names, and the new types of top level domains that will start appearing on the web later this year. The site is ... read more ...
 
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Food Network loses food quarrel for .food tip turn domain name - Scripps wanted to claim universal rights to the term “food” on the web. The company behind the Food Network and Food.com, Scripps Networks Interactive, Inc., has lost an objection against a rival applicant for the top level domain name .food. In the objection against Dot Food, LLC, Scripps tried to argue that it basically owns the word “food”, and that consumers visiting a second level domain name under .food would assume that it was associated with the company. Respondent’s ... read more ...
Mon 29th July 2013
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How right-to-left domain names work in practice - Depending on your language, new TLDs might be about new opportunities to the left of the dot. When ICANN unveiled the list of top level domain name applications at a media event in London last summer, some in the community were upset that Arabic IDNs were presented left to right instead of right to left. Some scripts, including Arabic and Hebrew, are read from right to left. This really hit home for me a couple weeks ago when I was writing about the registry agreement ... read more ...
 
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Gmail vs. Snail Mail: Google wins plea by USPS - USPS’ challenge to Google over .mail top level domain is denied. Last week, a World Intellectual Property Organization panelist delivered some bad news to the The United States Postal Service: its challenge to Amazon.com’s application to run the .mail top level domain was denied. Now the group’s challenge to Google’s bid to run .mail has also been returned to sender. The USPS suggested that it has some sort of rights to the term “mail”, in part because ... read more ...
Thu 25th July 2013
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Trademark frontrunner TLDDOT GmbH loses .GMBH objection - Company that trademarked .GMBH loses legal rights objection to competing applicant. TLDDOT GmbH, an applicant for the .gmbh domain name that has tried to “frontrun” the new TLD process with trademarks, has lost a legal rights objection against competing applicant InterNetWire Web-Development GmbH. TLDDOT’s objection was quite amazing, really. The company basically told the panel that it had filed trademarks and starting marketing .gmbh early on, so it should ... read more ...
 
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Demand Media successfully defends .CAM TLD opposite objection - Company defends one objection for .cam, still faces a string confusion objection. Demand Media subsidiary United TLD Holdco Ltd has defended itself against a legal rights objection over its .cam top level domain name application. AC Webconnecting Holding B.V., a competing applicant for the string, based its objection on community trademark registrations for “.cam” as a word as well as a .cam logo. It also said it is the controlling shareholder of a company that ... read more ...
 
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.Song and .YellowPages new TLD objections denied - Two more objections fail, bringing total to 18. World Intellectual Property Organization panelists have denied two more Legal Rights Objections to new top level domain name applications. The latest failed objections are for .song and .yellowpages. Of the 18 determined cases so far, the objectors have lost in each of them. That has a lot to do with panelists and applicants sniffing out “trademark frontrunning” in which an entity applied for (and gained, in some ... read more ...
Tue 23rd July 2013
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Sorting contribution from novella in a Trademark Clearinghouse - [Editors note: The Trademark Clearinghouse is a unique way for brand owners to protect themselves with the introduction of top level domain names. Jan Corstens, a partner at Deloitte (which operates the Trademark Clearinghouse), explains some of the common misconceptions about the service in this guest post.] With upcoming drastic changes to the Internet, including new generic Top Level Domains (gTLDs) such as .nyc and .boston to .book and .lol – it is crucial that ... read more ...
Mon 22nd July 2013
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Google drops hints in domain name registry heading filing - Trademark application includes domain escrow and domain valuation . Google has filed a trademark application for “Charleston Road Registry”, the name of its subsidiary that is applying for nearly 100 top level domain names. The filing (pdf) may include subtle clues as to what Google’s plans are for domain names such as .fun, .play, and .shop. There are six “goods and services” classifications for Charleston Road Registry. Most of them relate to the technical ... read more ...
 
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GoDaddy lets business “watch” new TLDs - Domain registrar creates watchlist for new domain names. GoDaddy is now allowing customers to add particular new top level domain names to a “watchlist”. The company’s updated new TLD landing page includes 700 categorized to level domain names. A blog post announcing the new watchlist feature was careful not to call it pre-registration, or even expressions of interest: NOTE: Keep in mind, we might not sell all of the gTLDs listed on the landing page. The “watch” ... read more ...
Fri 19th July 2013
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ICANN still deliberation IGO protections, though adds deadline to discussions - No acronym protections if IGO protections not resolved by Buenos Aires. One of the Governmental Advisory Committee’s (GAC) requests for new top level domain names is that both the names and acronyms of intergovernmental organizations (IGOs) be protected from second level registrations. This is, I imagine, because of the grave damage that would be inflicted on the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts if ECMWF.baseball were to be registered. The GAC’s ... read more ...