Archive for the ‘Domains’ Category
Friday, March 12th, 2010
For those closely following the ICANN Meeting in Nairobi this week, the EOI (Expression of Interest) model seemed like a foregone conclusion. In fact, ICANN had scheduled a webinar on March 18th to explain the process despite the complaints of the community and large-scale disagreement amongst proponents of the EOI.
As ...
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Wednesday, February 17th, 2010
It seems like every week, news of yet another high-profile domain hijacking occurs. Whether it’s stolen credentials, SQL injection attacks, or even the work of disgruntled employees, the number of incidents has been on the rise.
At the beginning of last year, MarkMonitor participated in VeriSign’s beta program to test server-level ...
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Friday, December 18th, 2009
Today ICANN published a draft model for soliciting Expressions of Interest for new generic top-level domains. According to the model, parties interested in submitting applications to acquire new gTLDs will be required to provide basic information about the application and a deposit of $55,000 which can be used as a ...
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Tuesday, December 1st, 2009
To say that it’s been quite a year in the world of domain names would be an understatement. From compromised ccTLD registries, to the delay of new gTLDs, some of the events of the past year have been surprising, while others could easily have been predicted.
Regardless of whether you could ...
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Friday, October 16th, 2009
In 1999, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Numbers and Names (“ICANN”) developed a policy to resolve disputes between trademark owners and registrants of domain names. This
policy, the UDRP, set out procedures, rules and guidelines that govern the process whereby an aggrieved trademark owner could petition an appointed arbitrator or group ...
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Friday, September 25th, 2009
Yesterday, ICANN’s Chief Operating Officer, Doug Brent was asked by ranking members of the U.S. House of Representatives Judiciary Committee why they were continuing to move forward with the launch of new gTLDs when they had not yet been able to resolve complaints.
Brent stated that Internet users have long called ...
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Tuesday, September 8th, 2009
Earlier this year, the Kentucky Court of Appeals overturned a seizure and forfeiture order for 141 domains used to promote, conduct or advance illegal gambling. The list of 141 domains contained popular gambling sites including: fulltiltpoker.com, indiancasino.com, bet21.com, allslots.com, bodoglife.com, bookmaker.com, sportsbook.com, sportsbetting.com, superslots.com, pokerstars.com, doylesroom.com and goldenpalace.com.
The Kentucky Court ...
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Wednesday, August 19th, 2009
For years, corporate domain name administrators have scoffed at every new second-level and third-level ccTLD liberalization, and rightly so. Until recently, most had continued the practice of registering significant numbers of variations, misspellings and typo-squats.
While I have never encouraged the practice of registering every variation in every geography, as this becomes ...
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Tuesday, June 16th, 2009
In an effort to facilitate discussions around issues of trademark protection, malicious behavior and other program details within the new gTLDs, ICANN will be hosting a series of events.
The events are scheduled to occur:
Wednesday, June 24th in Sydney during the 35th ICANN Meeting
Monday, July 13th in New York
Wednesday, July 15th ...
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Tuesday, June 2nd, 2009
Over the weekend, ICANN released a number of important documents including:
Amended Guidebook Sections and Explanatory Memoranda
Analysis of Public Comment to Applicant Guidebook version 2
Final Report on Trademark Protection in New gTLDs
Draft Implementation Plan for the IDN ccTLD Fast Track Process
New Registrar Contract
Root Server System Root Scaling Study
Please find ...
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