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Fri 1st August 2014
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Domain Prices Set Record As New TLDs Begin Trading, According To Sedo’s … - Submit |RSS|Print|Comments Loading... .Com Domains Reach an All-time Average High as Buy Now Sales Continue to ClimbBoston, Mass. – Sedo, the world’s largest premium domain marketplace and monetization provider, today announced the results of its First Half 2014 Domain Market Study, revealing domain industry trends and changes based on transactions in its marketplace. An infographic depicting findings from the study is available at http://bit.ly/1rMCO82. During the first six months of ... read more ...
 
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ICANN: ccTLD Bukanlah Barang Milik Badan/Lembaga -   Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) belum lama ini telah menyatakan kepada Pengadilan Federal AS di District of Columbia, bahwa country code Top-Level Domain (ccTLD) tidak bisa dianggap sebagai sebuah benda kepemilikan (properti). Karena itu, ccTLD tidak bisa digugat dalam sebuah tuntutan hukum yang mencoba mengambil alihnya dari suatu negara yang dianggap mendukung terorisme. “Kami telah memberi pertimbangan kepada Pengadilan Federal AS agar melakukan peninjauan ... read more ...
 
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Many Moving Parts: Running a Registry - So you want to be a registry.Each of the 1,400 applicants for new top-level domains (TLDs) took on daunting, new responsibilities when they decided to invest in the next big Internet thing. But their multi-year application process – jumping through high hoops, adjusting to the untried and unknown, and enduring multiple rule changes – may seem like duck soup compared to the challenges of running a registry.The first thing to keep in mind is that it takes a village to raise a registry. New TLD ... read more ...
Thu 31st July 2014
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ICANN fights legal bid to seize top level country domains - Syria, Iran and North Korea domains targeted. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has applied in a United States federal court to set aside civil judgments that direct it to seize the top-level domains of Iran, Syria and North Korea, ... read more ...
 
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Internet’s Organizing Body: Nobody Actually Owns Country Codes, Not Even … - (frankieleon)Does anyone actually own the internet? That might be the existential crisis of our age. We know companies own and operate websites, that other companies own the software that let us look at those sites, and that still other companies own and operate the physical infrastructure that allows us access to those sites. And when we stop to think about it, we know that there are registrars and regulations and standards in place that make specific parts of web addresses — the bits after the ... read more ...
 
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New ‘dot brand’ domains to increase customer loyalty - Written by Roland LaPlante, CMO of Affilias   Over the coming year, the Internet will experience its biggest makeover ever. More than 1,000 new top-level domains (TLDs) will join “heritage” domains such as .COM, .INFO, and .ORG. These new TLDs, covering brands, geography and generic concepts — like .DELMONTE, .VEGAS and .YACHTS — are designed to increase innovation on the Web. They will also open up massive opportunities for brands and retailers who want to make it easier and ... read more ...
 
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The wild west of gTLDs and trademarks - Generic top-level domains (gTLDs) are a new and soon-to-be-huge feature of the internet. New websites using a wide variety of newly created domain names will soon be springing up like weeds. Owners of brands and trademarks need to be aware of the threats, and of their options and the tools that are available to protect their intellectual property on the web. This huge expansion of internet real estate also brings a new wave of speculators and cybersquatters. New gTLDs open up a ... read more ...
 
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Sedo Publishes 2014 First Half Domain Market Study: 35.9 Million In Sales - Sedo today announced the results of its First Half 2014 Domain Market Study, revealing domain industry trends and changes based on transactions in its marketplace. An infographic depicting findings from the study is available at http://bit.ly/1rMCO82. During the first six months of 2014, Sedo powered 16,216 transactions worth a total of $35.9 million in sales. Domain values increased year-over-year, with the mean average sales price up 17 percent to $2,214 and the median price rising 7% to $616. The ... read more ...
 
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Top Level Domain Names: A New Frontier - First, think back to October 2013—the federal government had just experienced a 16-day shutdown and the internet only had 22 generic Top-Level Domains ("gTLDs").  Of these 22 gTLDs, there were less than a handful of gTLDs which were unrestricted and available for use for any purpose: namely, .COM, .NET, .ORG and .INFO.  Each of these gTLDs was managed by a domain name registrar who maintained a registry of all of the domain names and who collected periodic fees for each domain name registration. Because ... read more ...
 
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.COM Domains Remain Strong as New gTLDs Command Significant Market … - Since the new gTLDs started to become available in January, Sedo reports that the highest public sale of a new gTLD domain on its marketplace was eat.club, which sold for $20,000. Despite the excitement around new gTLDs, .com still remains the most popular TLD on its marketplace, accounting for more than half (55 percent) of all sales. Sedo released its First Half 2014 Domain Market Study on Thursday, which looks at the trends in its marketplace. During the first half of 2014, Sedo was behind ... read more ...
 
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Verisign Raises Positive Guidance After Expected 2Q Results With Substantial … - Sluggish domain name registration business growth of VeriSign (VRSN, Market Perform) and impacts of new gTLDs on core registry business remained doubtful, drives us to downgrade VeriSign to ‘Market Perform’ from ‘Outperform’ rating with price target of $50. However we see multiple strengths of VeriSign including revenue growth, profit margins expansion, growth in stock price, net income growth and remarkable earnings per share growth. Irrespective of Verisign missed second quarter revenue ... read more ...
 
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ICANN can’t hand over Iran’s internet, bomb victims told - Linux and AIX Bare-Metal Recovery Webinar It's not possible to hand over Iran's internet because it doesn't own it, a Washington DC court has been told in a mind-boggling submission to terrorism victims.Lawyers for nine US citizens injured in an Iran-financed bombing in Jerusalem back in 1997 have turned to the internet in an effort to recoup millions of dollars awarded to them against the government of Iran more than a decade ago. ... read more ...
 
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1st Day Totals For New gTLD’s: .Reisen 2262; .University 1340; .Toys 1320 … - Several new gTLD’s went into its first day of general availability GA) yesterday and according to ntldstats.com,here are the number of registrations after the first day of GA which include all Sunrise applications and those domains registered in the Early Access Program (EAP) Once again the total for this weeks new gTLD are less than impressive: .Reisen 2,262; .University 1,340 .Toys 1,320 .Town 590 Reisen is the German word for Travel. There are now over 1.75 million new gTLD’s registered with ... read more ...
Wed 30th July 2014
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Report: New TLDs Cause Confusion - LOS ANGELES —  As a flood of new top-level domains (TLDs) enters the marketplace, providing websites with the equivalent of vanity license plates, a new report suggests it’s all too confusing for consumers and businesses. Today’s announcement of ICM’s official go-ahead to launch the .SEX TLD punctuates the perceptual problems that the rash of new domains is bringing to the global Internet arena, where hundreds of new TLDs, such as .bike, .club and .today — and yes, .sex — reveal ... read more ...
 
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Countries don’t own their Internet domains, ICANN says - The Internet domain name for a country doesn't belong to that country -- nor to anyone, according to ICANN. Plaintiffs who successfully sued Iran, Syria and North Korea as sponsors of terrorism want to seize the three countries' ccTLDs (country code top-level domains) as part of financial judgments against them. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, which oversees the Internet, says they can't do that because ccTLDs aren't even property.After the plaintiffs filed papers to ICANN ... read more ...
 
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ICANN’s .IR Response Opens Legal Can of Worms - ICANN has filed its initial response to writs of attachment issued by U.S. Courts that seek to have ICANN transfer control of the country code top level domains (ccTLDs) of Iran, Syria and North Korea to plaintiffs in various legal actions. The lawsuits were brought under a U.S. law that permits victims of terrorism and their family survivors to seek the assets of governments that provided support or direction of the terrorist acts. As expected, ICANN vigorously opposed the court orders and ... read more ...
 
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ICANN to plaintiffs: No, you can’t have all of Iran’s domains - Further ReadingIn sudden announcement, US to give up control of DNS root zoneSigns point to fallout from NSA spying that lead to "multi-stakeholder" model.The global body in charge of domain names, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), has asked a federal court to prevent the handover of the country code top-level domain names (ccTLD) of North Korea, Syria, and Iran as part of a terrorism lawsuit dating back over a decade. Those would include the .KP, .SY ... read more ...
 
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Interlink Co., Ltd. Wins Community Priority Evaluation For The New gTLD .Osaka - Interlink Co., Ltd. Application for The New gTLD .Osaka just won its Community Priority Evaluation .Osaka has prevailed with its Community Priority Evaluation application getting 15 of the maximum 16 points. This means that GMO’s application for .Osaka will not move forward. Here is part of the decision: “Thank you for your participation in the New gTLD Program. After careful consideration and extensive review of the information provided in your application, including documents of support, the ... read more ...
 
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ICANN Responds To Seizure Order of The .IR Registry, saying ccTLD’s Are Not … -                   A couple of weeks ago we told you that the attorney for the victims of a terrorist attack got a federal court to order the seizure of the .IR domain registry which is the ccTLD for Iran to help satisfy a judgement the victims  held  against the republic of Iran. As first reported by webpronews.com,  (The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) told a U.S. federal court in the District of Columbia, that ccTLD (country code Top-Level Domains ) can’t be ... read more ...
 
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More from ICANN Court Filing: Not Only Are ccTLD’s Not Property But They Don’t … -                 Earlier we wrote about ICANN filing several motions to quash a federal court ruling that ccTLD registries could be seized to satisfy judgements against the underling country saying ccTLD’s are not considered property and therefore it can’t be attached by plaintiffs. We read through some more of the 289 page memorandum ICANN filed  in support of the motions and ICANN is position is only are not the ccTLD registries not property but the ccTLD’s don’t even belong to ... read more ...
 
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.XXX Operator ICM Registry Wins Right to Operate .Sex - MIAMI — ICM Registry, the operator of .xxx, .adult and .porn, has won the right to operate the .sex gTLD. Internet Marketing Solutions Ltd., a competing applicant for .sex, has withdrawn its application, leaving ICM Registry's bid as the sole applicant for .sex. Stuart Lawley, CEO of ICM Registry, told XBIZ that his company acquired the rights to .sex in a transaction for the gTLD.  The agreement "is subject to confidentiality but in essence we bought the other applicant out, and he has no ... read more ...
 
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ICANN fights legal moves to seize Iran, Syria and North Korea top-level web … -

The UK legalises CD ripping, in some circumstances

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ICANN tells US Court that ccTLDs are not property and thus cannot be seized - The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has told a U.S. federal court in the District of Columbia, that a country code Top-Level Domain (ccTLD) cannot be considered “property,” and thus cannot be attached by plaintiffs in a lawsuit, who are trying to obtain the assets of countries that they argued have supported terrorism. “We filed a Motion to Quash in the US federal court today, to ensure that the court has the essential information about how the ... read more ...
 
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ICANN To Court: ccTLDs Aren’t Property - [ Technology] ICANN (The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) told a U.S. federal court in the District of Columbia, that a ccTLD (country code Top-Level Domain ) can’t be considered property. For this reason, it says, it can’t be attached by plaintiffs in a lawsuit, when they’re trying to obtain assets of countries they say have supported terrorism. ICANN General Counsel and Secretary John Jeffrey explained, “We filed a ... read more ...
 
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ICM Registry Operator of .XXX Wins Rights to The New gTLD .Sex - ICM Registry the operator of the .XXX registry has won the right to operate the .Sex new gTLD. The other applicant for .Sex, Internet Marketing Solutions Limited has withdrawn their application, leaving ICM’s the lone applicant for .Sex. ICM also is the only applicant for the new gTLD’s .adult and .porn The only caveat on the new gTLD’s .Sex, .Adult and .Porn is that just a few weeks ago, seemingly out of nowhere, the New gTLD Committee of ICANN commented that they might be sensitive strings ... read more ...