Tag Archives: .sport

Tue 25th March 2014
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Famous Four alleges couple between panelist and competition for .Sport - Company says panelist that killed its .sport application had a conflict of interest. Last fall Famous Four Media saw its plans to run a .sport top level domain dashed after a panelist found in favor of rival applicant SportAccord in a community objection. Famous Four appealed the decision to ICANN through a reconsideration request and lost. Now the company is claiming (pdf) it has found ties between the panelist that decided the case and SportAccord. Panelist Guido ... read more ...
Wed 22nd January 2014
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TKO: There will be no .sports tip turn domain in a initial round - Objection panel rules that the the sport community would face material detriment for a .sports domain name. Well, at least this decision is consistent. Except it isn’t. An International Chamber of Commerce panelist has upheld SportAccord’s community objection against Donuts’ application to run the .sports top level domain name. While this decision (pdf) is consistent with another panelist’s decision in .sport, the rationale again conflicts with the decision ... read more ...
Thu 9th January 2014
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Uh oh: .Basketball village conflict fails, .sport prevailed. - Panelist in .basketball decision uses different interpretation of guidelines to come up with a different conclusion than panelist in .sport. An International Chamber of Commerce panelist has determined that community objections filed against two applications for .basketball have failed. Comparing this decision to a recent one upholding a community objection to .sport, it appears we may have another case of inconsistent rulings. The .basketball community objection ... read more ...
Tue 25th May 2010
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.Sport Whines Again: Please Don’t Allow .Football! - Group again asks ICANN to not allow any individual sports to get top level domain names. Last August the so-called .Sport Policy Advisory Council (basically a group that wants to launch the .sport top level domain name) told ICANN it was unhappy with the idea that there could be individual sports (such as .baseball) as top level domains. At the time, the .Sport Policy Advisory Council wrote: We cannot accept ICANN approving any applications for top-level domains ... read more ...
Thu 20th May 2010
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dotSPORT Continues the Trademark Frontrunning - Company tries to get leg up in new TLD process with trademarks. I’ve written a couple times about prospective new top level domain applicants trying to trademark the names of their proposed TLD (e.g. .eco). But it appears dotSport LLC, one of the companies going after what will likely be a competition for .sport, is being quite aggressive. According to filings at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, the company has tried to register DotSport, RegistryDotSport, ... read more ...
Tue 1st September 2009
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.Sport Asks, Just What is a Top Level Domain? - .Sport questions the definition of “top level”. If the .Sport Policy Advisory Council has its way, Shaq won’t be able to get his hands on the .basketball TLD. In a letter to ICANN Chairman Peter Dengate-Thrush and CEO Rod Beckstrom, the .Sport Policy Advisory Council suggests that a top level domain name should be the very top of a category, and anything less than that would diminish the importance of top level domain names. The letter states: …Thus, the ... read more ...