Tag Archives: top level domain auctions

Thu 30th October 2014
Written by DomainNameWire in EN and tagged
Does auctioning off a new TLD to a top bidder set adult failure? - Why did losers not value the domain name as high as the winner? Let me start by saying I’m not a big fan of the idea of community priority and similar mechanisms for determining which applicant gets a particular top level domain name. But I’ve also been thinking lately about the auction process and its effect on the long term health of new top level domain names. When an auction is used to resolve a new top level domain name contention set, the company with the ... read more ...
Wed 11th September 2013
Written by DomainNameWire in EN and tagged
Whoops! New TLD auction lawyers also representing Name.space in fit to hindrance program - Morrison Foerster has worked on private TLD auctions while also representing name.space in its lawsuit against the new TLD program. Earlier today I wrote about name.space’s opening brief in its appeal to a lawsuit it filed against ICANN last year. Name.space, which runs an alternate root with many domain names that are identical to ones being applied for in the new top level domain program, sued ICANN last year and asked the court to halt the new top level domain ... read more ...