Domain Names
08 August 2012
US Lawmakers Want Assurance New gTLDs Will Protect Trademarks And Not Break Internet
Key members of the US Congress are still raising concerns about ICANN's plan to new gTLDs, writing to the organisation outlining concerns that any new strings introduced will not harm trademark holders and requesting assurance the public will have adequate opportunity to comment.
US Presidential Campaigns Stock Up On Domains, Particularly Negative Domains USA Today
The US presidential campaign teams for Mitt Romney and Barack Obama are busy buying up domain names to be ready to hurl insults at one another!
31 July 2012
ANA Calls For gTLD Public Comment Period Extension
With the number of applications for new generic Top Level Domains exceeding most expectations, the Association of National Advertisers has written to ICANN asking for an extension of the public comment window.
.NET Domains More Valuable Than .COM: Sedo
The average sale price of a .NET domain name was $300 higher than the average .COM sale in the second quarter 2012, Sedo's Q2 2012 Domain Market Study reports.
22 July 2012
Sedo Celebrates .CO's Second Birthday Analysing Aftermarket Performance
To mark the second birthday of the reborn .CO ccTLD, Sedo has released a report focussing on its aftermarket performance.
21 July 2012
.EU Registrants Must Have Presence in EU, Europe's Highest Court Rules
Only companies with an established presence in Europe Union were able to take advantage of the sunrise period for trademark holders and to register.EU domain names the European Union's highest court ruled Thursday.
16 July 2012
Kids.us Another Online Safety Tool Loses Out To Big Business
One of the challenging aspects of child safety online is the multitude of tools available and getting people to use them. There are many worthwhile projects that have come and gone, or just never really made it.
14 July 2012
Domain Registrations Continue To Outgrow Chinese Economy As Total Registrations Grow To 233m
The registration of domain names continue to be one of the few industries globally that outperform the Chinese economy, with a growth rate of 11 per cent year-on-year, or 23 million, to the end of quarter one, 2012, making the total number of domain names registered over 233 million.
13 July 2012
NBA Demands Domain From Porn Stars Offering Fans Oral Sex
Porn stars Sara Jay and Angelina Castro have promised Miami Heat fans oral sex if their team won a championship, setting up a Twitter account and website with the rules and regulations of the offer should they win. But they have fallen afoul of the National Basketball Association who have demanded the domain name and Twitter account saying they breach the NBA's intellectual property.
US Seizes Another 70 Domains Selling Counterfeit Goods
Another 70 domain names allegedly involved in selling counterfeit merchandise were seized by the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI)-led National Intellectual Property Rights Coordination Center (IPR Center).
12 July 2012
.ORG Seventh TLD To Pass Ten Millionth Registration Milestone
There are now ten million .ORG domain names registered the Public Interest Registry (PIR) has announced, with the milestone passed on 24 June.
10 July 2012
WIPO to ICANN: On URS "Summits", It's Our Way or the Highway by Philip Corwin, Internet Commerce Association Internet Commerce Association
Overview: Timely implementation of the URS, a required RPM for new gTLDs, is critical to the success of the program as well as to the adequacy of registrant rights - for now just at new gTLDs, but with its possible extension to incumbent gTLDs sure to be a subject of future debate.
.ME Fastest Growing European ccTLD Shows Centr Report
The Montenegrin ccTLD .ME is the fastest growing of all European ccTLDs while there are there are roughly 59 million domain names registered in Europe the latest Centr DomainWire Stat Report shows.
05 July 2012
IRB wants .RUGBY to benefit rugby family International Rugby Board
The application by the International Rugby Board (IRB) to ICANN to acquire the .RUGBY internet domain name is the only .RUGBY application supported by the representatives of the global Rugby community and is in the best interests of the sport.
03 July 2012
Canadian Bank Recommends Investing In Registrars
In a report prepared for investor clients, RBC Capital Markets have prepared a report on the new generic Top Level Domain expansion saying that "with potentially 100s more gTLDs becoming available for use in the next year or so, we think DMD (Demand Media) and WWWW (Web.com) - two companies in our coverage universe with major domain registrar operations - will be longer-term beneficiaries through the expansion of the domain name-space."
ICANN Awarded New Contract to Continue Performing IANA Functions
Finally some good news for ICANN. Following on from the announcement that their meeting in Prague last week was the largest ever with 1821 people registered, ICANN have received news they will continue to perform the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority functions following the awarding of a new contract by the U.S. Department of Commerce's NTIA.
30 June 2012
ICANN Opens Registrations For Toronto Meeting
For anyone getting ICANN withdrawal pangs, you can start preparations for the next ICANN meeting to be held in Toronto, Canada, the 45th ICANN meeting, by registering now!
29 June 2012
ICANN Meeting Outcomes: .COM Contract, FY13 Operating Budget and Plan ICANN
After months of consultations, open public comment processes and discussion, the ICANN Board of Directors made several resolutions at its 23 June meeting. These included authorization of renewal of its agreement with Verisign for operation of .COM, adoption of ICANN's operating budget and plan for fiscal year 2013 and approval for delegation of a new internationalized ccTLD.
Digital Archery Terminated - But It's Unlikely To Be Back!
ICANN killed off the controversial digital archery process for selecting the order in which applicants for new gTLDs will be selected.
28 June 2012
Individual Social Media Users Register More Domains, But For Businesses, Less: SIDN Report
Individuals that use social media register more domain names than those that don't, while businesses that use social media register less domain names, a report by the .NL registry SIDN has found.
27 June 2012
ICANN Board Approves Renewal of .COM Registry Agreement
VeriSign, Inc. announced that the Board of Directors of ICANN approved at a meeting on June 23, 2012 the renewal of Verisign's agreement to serve as the authoritative registry operator for the .com registry for the term commencing on December 1, 2012 through November 30, 2018. The Verisign Board of Directors approved the renewal of the .com registry agreement on June 16, 2012.
ICANN's Digital Archery Way Off Target
ICANN's proposed method for choosing the order in which applications for new generic Top Level Domains would be processed, called digital archery, has been suspended due to unexpected results.
26 June 2012
Moscow gTLDs Set To Boost Muscovites Pride in Moscow, Despite ICANN's Best Intentions
The introduction of new generic Top Level Domains has seen applications from several cities around the world, one of them being the Russian capital of Moscow, who has applied for both .MOSCOW and its Cyrillic counterpart, .МОСКВА.
25 June 2012
ICANN Going To Beijing In April 2013 As Beckstrom Says Farewell
ICANN will hold its 46th meeting in the Chinese capital of Beijing from 7 to 12 April 2013, marking the first time it has held one of its three yearly public meetings in China since October 2002.
23 June 2012
ICANN Suspends Digital Archery
The digital archery method of selecting which applicants for new gTLDs go into which approval round has been suspended, placing into doubt whether the service will be used.
