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Wed 3rd June 2015
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The Best Domain Extensions When a .COM is Not Available - What do you do when the domain name or suffix you want is not available?Finding the perfect domain name to represent your business can be harder than you think. A frustrating problem for many new businesses and startups, the domain-name competition is only getting more intense.According to Netcraft, there are currently 850 million active websites on the Internet. With that kind of volume, it’s no wonder domain name competition has become the aggressive duel it is today.Luckily, if you find yourself ... read more ...
 
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Go pro with your own email address - It’s time to face facts: the only people who look professional with a Gmail address are those who work at Google. If you don’t believe us, think back to the last time you were stuck behind a plumber’s van in slow-moving traffic. It was almost certainly plastered with mobile numbers, and probably a webmail address. How much more professional would it look if they had their own domain?  Registering a domain is cheap – typically £10 or less – and setting it up to handle your email is easy. ... read more ...
Tue 2nd June 2015
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FTC to ICANN: We Told You .SUCKS Was a Bad Idea - The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has responded to a letter from ICANN requesting the regulatory body examine the legality of the rollout of the .SUCKS new gTLD. The response (PDF) was written by FTC Chairwoman Edith Ramirez, and instead of ruling if any laws or regulations had been broken, it offers several recommendations for ICANN to ensure better protection of intellectual property owners’ rights. Companies are mad at ICANN for allowing registrar tactics they say are coercive and predatory. ... read more ...
 
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Research reveals that around two-thirds of internet users are unaware of … - Trevor Little Research published by ICANN has pointed to a growing awareness of new gTLDs, although such strings lag significantly behind legacy TLDs in terms of familiarity. Arguably more of a surprise is the finding that just over one in three internet users are aware of cybersquatting. We have previously reported on studies that have examined awareness ... read more ...
 
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Generic Top Level Domains – Current Sunrise Periods Open – May 2015 Update - You are responsible for reading, understanding and agreeing to the National Law Review's (NLR’s) and the National Law Forum LLC's  Terms of Use and Privacy Policy before using the National Law Review website. The National Law Review is a free to use, no-log in database of legal and business articles. The content and links on www.NatLawReview.com are intended for general information purposes only. Any legal analysis, legislative updates or other content and links should not be construed ... read more ...
 
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These New Domains are Cool, But Also Dangerous - In the last couple of years, we have been watching the evolution of the new gTLDs (generic top-level domains). From the boring .com, .net, or .us, the Internet is now moving towards new and exciting domain names like .business, .ceo or .photo, among dozens of other interesting options. However, along with these came other not-so-interesting domains, like .sucks or .wtf. Those domains can be used by ill-intentioned people to mock someone or some company, which can be bad for the affected party. ... read more ...
 
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Barclays moves to new gTLDs - Barclays is moving its online presences to its new gTLDs, the UK bank has confirmed. The Barclays Group will transfer its online assets to .barclays and .barclaycard to make it “crystal clear” that customers are engaging with a genuine Barclays site, it said. Barclays will no longer use the .com and .co.uk TLDs. Troels Oerting, Barclays Group chief information security officer, said: “This clarity, along with the advantages of controlling our own online environment, enables us to provide ... read more ...
 
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ICANN Announces Phase One Results from Multiyear Consumer Study on the … – ag-IP - Home / ICANN Announces Phase One Results from Multiyear Consumer Study on the ... / LOS ANGELES - The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) published the findings from its ICANN Global Consumer Research Study, Phase One, conducted on its behalf by Nielsen, to measure aspects of consumer awareness, perceived consumer choice, experience and trust related to the current generic top-level domain (gTLD) landscape and ... read more ...
 
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Unprecedented move: Vox Populi extends sunrise deadline for “.sucks” domain … - In a move that is being interpreted as possible overreaching, Vox Populi, operator of the .sucks domain name, extended the period for registering .sucks during the "sunrise period" without notice. The new deadline to register the .sucks domain name is June 19. Not only is it $2,000 or more to register each .sucks domain name, there is also an annual renewal fee of $2,000. There is online speculation that Vox’s extension is motivated by a relatively large surge in last minute registrations before ... read more ...
 
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Which gTLD .sucks — protecting your business brand - Since ICANN – the organization that allocates domain names — approved an initiative in 2011 to add thousands of new “generic” Top-Level Domains (gTLD), over 635 new gTLDs have been registered.  Many of these are creative efforts to expand topical diversity on the internet, but few have received as much notoriety as .sucks. A gTLD is the portion of an internet address to the right of the dot, such as .com, .net or .org.  Under ICANN’s plan, third parties may register and administer ... read more ...
Mon 1st June 2015
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What’s Going on in China’s Domain Name Industry? - Recently, there has been a lot of noise about China tightening control of the new top-level domains and how it could severely damper domain name registrations in China and one should make preparation for the worst. Initially, I tried to stay out of this as I know all the players behind this. But given that at least 3 people have emailed me asking what's going on, I decided to clear the air here. It started with a report by Brandma on China's "Special Operation" to regulate Domain Name Registrations ... read more ...
 
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FTC Doesn’t Want to Be Drawn Into .Sucks Domain Debate -

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Sat 30th May 2015
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Prudential Denied URS On Rocksolid.financial Despite Trademark & Parked Page - The Prudential Insurance Company of America just lost the attempt to get the new gTLD domain name rocksolid.financial suspended through a Uniform Rapid Suspension (URS) proceeding. The domain owner is Terrance McQuilkin who was represented by Mark Jeftovic of Toronto. The Examiner Antonina Pakharenko-Anderson, denied relief to Prudential despite having a trademark going back to 1986 for financial services and the domain being parked, finding the term Rock Solid was generic Here are the highlights: “”The ... read more ...
 
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Blacknight announce .irish domain landrush available to global Irish community - .IRISH is the new top-level domain for people who want a distinctive web address that clearly says ‘Irish’. ... read more ...
Fri 29th May 2015
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The .Sucks Domain Name Launch Delayed While Lawyers Scramble - Every business these days needs to have a solid domain name, and the scramble for a unique .com domains has long been a problem for companies looking for their home online. But there are new problems coming for companies as a result of the new generic Top Level Domains (gTLD) like .sucks. The .sucks domain sales were initially supposed to finish their ‘sunrise’ period today. Sunrise is when domains are available to brands who own a trademark and wish to protect it from someone ... read more ...
 
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.sucks-gate: How about listening to us the first two times, exasperated FTC tells … - The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has responded to questions over the legality of .sucks domain pricing with a three-page "I told you so" letter to domain name overseer ICANN. ICANN is upset that Vox Populi – the company in charge of .sucks – is charging people $2,500 (£1,700) to defensively register dot-sucks domains before the trolls do. This is the same ICANN that opened the floodgates to waves of new dot-word domains on the internet. ... read more ...
 
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Should you register a dotSucks domain for your company? - Consumer-oriented businesses will soon face yet another challenge from consumers complaining online about their experiences with companies.From Facebook comments to customer reviews on Yelp to websites such as Walmartsucks.com, consumers have a wide variety of outlets for spreading the bad word about your business.A new, soon-to-be-available top level domain (TLD) name will give internet users yet another way to gripe about companies: dotSucks (.sucks). ... read more ...
 
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Should you register a dotSucks domain for your company? - Consumer-oriented businesses will soon face yet another challenge from consumers complaining online about their experiences with companies.From Facebook comments to customer reviews on Yelp to websites such as Walmartsucks.com, consumers have a wide variety of outlets for spreading the bad word about your business.A new, soon-to-be-available top level domain (TLD) name will give internet users yet another way to gripe about companies: dotSucks (.sucks). ... read more ...
 
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A sucking sound on domain names: .SUCKS is open for registration - The .SUCKS registry is perhaps the most controversial of the new generic top level domains (gTLDs), which the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has continued to roll out. Trademark owners should be aware of the .SUCKS registry and factor it into their trademark protection strategy. Yet the first “sucking” noise brand owners will hear will be the debit to their bank accounts for the steep price of registration during the Sunrise Period (which is for trademarks registered ... read more ...
Thu 28th May 2015
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Brands don’t like .sucks? Not our problem, FTC says - A lot of big brands are furious about the introduction of a new .sucks Internet domain but regulators at the Federal Trade Commission declined to come to their rescue.The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, or ICANN, which oversees the domain name system, last month asked the FTC to look into complaints about the rules for .sucks. In particular, brands had to pre-register for $2,000 or more a year to prevent others from acquiring a .sucks web address ... read more ...
 
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All 32 NFL Teams Register a .Football Domain, But Only 10 Colleges Do - All 32 NFL teams applied for its domain name in the new gTLD .Football that launches into general availability next week. Interestingly some applied with their city and team like the BaltimoreRavens.football and the AtlantaFalcons.football while other teams just went with their name like 49ers.football and Bengals.football. If your keeping track 15 NFL teams went with their city and nicknames while 17 just registered the name of their team sans the city. A team that registered just its city and nickname ... read more ...
 
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FTC hits out at new gTLDs programme but swerves question over ‘.sucks’ pricing … - Trevor Little The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has responded to ICANN’s referral of concerns over the pricing policies implemented in the ‘.sucks’ new gTLD – albeit without actually answering the specific central question that was posed. On World Trademark Review, we previously reported on ICANN’s move to refer the Intellectual Property ... read more ...
 
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First truly global Irish domain name now available - .irish is a new top-level domain (TLD) for the global Irish community, which can be used by anyone, anywhere, who identifies with the word ‘Irish’. Individuals, businesses and companies may now register a domain name that lets anyone visiting their website know that they are Irish.Years in the making, .irish domains are finally entering landrush and general availability is from June 25 2015 on. Landrush is the period during which premium names may be applied for before the domain becomes available ... read more ...
 
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Cyrillic TLD ‘.бел’ is launched -

The morning duration for registration of a recently launched Cyrillic top-level domain ‘.бел’ is underway, finale on May 31 2015. From Mar 1 to May 31, priority has been given to heading owners, who can register domain names relating their trademarks.

From Jun 1 to September 30 2015, that is a landrush period, appealing domain names will be sole by charity…

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Announcement: New gTLD Applicant and GDD Portals Update – ag-IP - Home / Announcement: New gTLD Applicant and GDD Portals Update / LOS ANGELES - The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) provided an update on its investigation into a data exposure issue in the New gTLD Applicant and GDD (Global Domains Division) portals, first reported on 1 March 2015. According to the Corporation, in its 30 April announcement, ICANN noted its intention to disclose to affected users the identity ... read more ...