ELECTRONIC WEAPONS: Super Binoculars - May 9, 2013: The U.S. Army is spending $16 million to get a new hand-held, binocular-like device (TLDS or Target Location Designation System) that combines day/night digital viewer, with zoom and a laser range finder, and target designating laser. The TLDS takes several separate bits of equipment and combines them into one unit. In addition, a small computer is built in that takes care of identifying the user and passing target information onto artillery and air units. This makes it easy for ... read more ...

How To Use The New Trademark Clearinghouse - Share us on: Twitter Facebook LinkedIn   Law360, New York (May 08, 2013, 11:56 AM ET) -- By now, most people are aware that the Internet will soon undergo its biggest makeover yet with the launch of hundreds of new top-level domains (TLDs) that will vastly expand the greater domain name system (DNS). Branded, generic and geographic domains such as .Microsoft, .beauty and .nyc will begin to appear alongside already established domains such as .com, .org and .edu. ... read more ...

Google Starts Treating More Country-Code Top-Level Domains as Generic TLDs - It can sometimes be annoying when you're searching for a company’s website, only to fall victim to geotargeting. Or worse, you're a multinational company, but your country level top-level domain is making ranking outside of your country an issue, even when it ranks fairly well within the country. And sometimes people are just registering certain country code top-level domains (ccTLDs) because they are trendy, especially for marketing purposes. Google has just updated its list of ccTLDs they ... read more ...

US Army awards JETS TLDS prototype development contract to DRS - DRS Technologies has been awarded a contract for the development and delivery of an advanced next-generation target-location and fire-support system prototype to the US Army. Awarded by the Army Contracting Command (ACC), the $15.5m cost-plus-fixed-fee, incrementally-funded contract supports the engineering and manufacturing development ... read more ...

Google Expands List of “Generic” Top Level Domains and Makes Them … - Typically, the country-code top level domain (ccTLD) is just that — a country code. For instance, example.co.uk has content for the UK, and example.com.au has content for Australia. Usually, registration of these domains is restricted. You have to prove that you are operating the site from the designated country. However, some countries have opened up registration to everyone. And of course, some top level domains, such as .com, are inherently generic. Google uses the location of a site ... read more ...

Geo New gTLD’s: Perfectly Tailored for City Residents, Businesses, & Services - theatlanticcities.com, just covered the coming New gTLD Geographic domain names calling them perfectly tailored for city residents, businesses, services” Here are some of the more interesting points from the story: “Dozens of municipal governments, from Durban to Taipei, have claimed corresponding top level domains (TLDs) — even the wordy ones like .amsterdam and .helsinki — in the hopes that a domain will soon become as important to the global city brand in 2020 as a website was in ... read more ...

The New Economy of City-Based Top Level Internet Domains - Craving a slice in Istanbul? Check out www.pizza.istanbul. Need a taxi in Tokyo? Try www.taxi.tokyo. Those URLs don't lead anywhere at the moment, but in a matter of months, they will. The geography of the Internet is on the verge of a historic growth spurt, and cities will be presiding over some of its largest new territories. Dozens of municipal governments, from Durban to Taipei, have claimed corresponding top level domains (TLDs) -- even the wordy ones like .amsterdam and .helsinki -- in ... read more ...

MediaPost: New gTLD’s Will Change Search - Hello MHB, This scare tactic journalim will fool some companies but its overall results will pour more SEO Manipulated data into the already obsolesced Search Engine Marketing Model. Consumers will not adopt gTLDS and the overall effect of these Massive Dumps of SEO manipulation will render Search Engine Marketing useless, in locating businesses in cyberspace. Reasons to follow : Full Optimal Internet Expansion can never be achieved through SEO Manipulated ... read more ...

Online brand protection strategies: new gTLDs and the Trademark Clearinghouse -   What are the new gTLDs? ICANN received over 1,900 applications for new Generic Top-Level Domains (“gTLDs”) and it is estimated that at least 500 will launch, with the first launches beginning late this summer (at the earliest). We do not know which gTLDs will launch first, and at this point, it is hard to predict which, if any, will be successful. Applications have been filed for a wide range of gTLDs, everything from .buy, .shop, .save, .coupon, to .book, .music, .film, .movie, .art, ... read more ...

Cybersquatters not welcome in the Clearinghouse - With the upcoming delegation of new generic Top Level Domains (gTLDs), trade mark owners should consider taking pre-emptive steps to prevent domain name squatters using their trade marks when registering domain names under any of the 1,000 new gTLDs expected later this year. The recently launched Trade Mark Clearinghouse (TMCH) offers another means for protecting brands and valuable IP rights from infringement. Background In June 2011, ICANN, the body that manages the Internet’s domain ... read more ...

Unprecedented Prices for New .XXX Registrations – Virtual - PALM BEACH GARDENS, Fla., May 1, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- ICM Registry, the registry operator for the .XXX top-level domain (TLD) for online adult entertainment, announced that new .XXX domain registrations created from May 1 through May 31, 2013 will be available at .COM prices. During this limited time only, registrants can lock in prices, as low as $ 8.99 for up to 10 years. Customers looking to take advantage of this limited promotional offer, should contact their usual registrar or one of the ... read more ...

The new TLD era: what is it, and what can trademark owners do? - The internet will soon expand to include hundreds of new top-level-domains (TLDs) (examples of TLDs as we know them today include .com, .net. and .org – i.e., the term that is to the right of the "dot"). In fact, over 1,900 applications were received by ICANN (the internet's governing body) from entities who want to run their own TLD registry. While many of these applications were filed by brand owners, the majority of the TLD applications are for generic terms, such as .app, .inc. and .law – ... read more ...

Top Level Domain aims to launch five new Internet domains this year -

Top Level Domain Holdings Ltd. is anticipating to launch 5 new Internet residence endings, famous as tip turn domains, by a finish of this year, it pronounced Wednesday.

ICANN, a physique that coordinates Internet addresses, is overseeing a routine that will outcome in a large enlargement in a series of Internet

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Blacknight CEO to Speak at 2013 Domaining Spain Conference, Leading … – Virtual - Leading Irish domain registrar and hosting company Blacknight heads to Spain to speak about New TLDs at the 2013 Domaining Spain Conference. Carlow,Ireland (PRWEB) April 22, 2013 Leading Irish domain registrar and hosting company Blacknight heads to Spain to speak about New TLDs at the 2013 Domaining Spain Conference. Domaining Spain (http://domainingspain.com/) , which is in its second year, is billed as a ccTLD and New gTLD conference. The event will be held from April 25 through the 27th ... read more ...

What May Happen to GAC Advice? 3 Fearless Predictions – CircleID - 1. Prediction: A Lesson in Story Telling. Many TLD applicants are likely to respond to the GAC Advice in a manner that is like story telling: Based on a mixture of fiction garnished with some facts from their applications, applicants will write savvy responses with only one aim — to calm down the GAC's concerns and survive the GAC Advice storm. The "duck and cover" strategy. Background: According to the Applicant Guidebook, material changes to applications need to go through a Change ... read more ...

New gTLDs raise data security concerns - ICANN is well on its way to the launch of new generic top-level domains (gTLDs) with the first ones being approved as early as April 23rd.  The handful of TLDs currently in use, such as “.com”, “.org”, and “.edu”, may soon be joined by over 1000 gTLDs ranging from “.book” to “.football”.   While we have previously focused on intellectual property concerns and objections to these new gTLDs, the launch perhaps raises another important consideration:  What implications might ... read more ...

Internet domain names cross 252 million mark - PUNE: VeriSign, the global leader in domain names, has said more than six million domain names were added to the internet in the fourth quarter of 2012, bringing the total number of registered domain names to more than 252 million worldwide across all top-level domains (TLDs) on December 31, 2012. Verisign said the increase of 6.1 million domain names globally equates to a growth rate of 2.5% over the third quarter of 2012, and marks the eighth straight quarter with greater than 2% growth. Worldwide ... read more ...