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A First: Complainant Loses Case for .co Domain Name
June 22, 2011 @ 11:56 PMChampagne.co becomes first .co domain name case won by respondent. A complainant has finally lost a UDRP case for a .co domain name. Comite Interprofessionnel du vin de Champagne has lost the case it brought for the domain name Champagne.co. The decision text hasn’t been posted yet, but this is the first time a complainant has lost a .co …
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ICANN Domain Name Move Would Lead to Massive Fraud Say Experts
June 22, 2011 @ 10:51 PMAnalysts say if corporate houses would be required to contend with infinite variations of their names and trademarks on the internet as well, the confusion could well be imagined. According to experts, this may lead to revival of issues of patent and trademark with the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) – the body governing internet domain names – allowing all kinds of net suffixes alongside the popular ones like .com and .net.
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New Domain Parking Company Comes Onto The Scene
June 22, 2011 @ 10:15 PMRook Media opens its doors to more domain owners. Rook Media is coming out from behind the shadows. The new domain parking service has been in a closed beta with very large domainers since February. But as of today, it’s open to the public. The company is backed by a number of former senior managers from Name Drive who left when the …
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ICANN Preps Cybersecurity Facilities for Top-level Domains
June 22, 2011 @ 7:28 PMThe organisation, which administers the internet’s addressing system, announced that the centres will be located in Singapore, Zurich, Switzerland and San Jose, California, and will provide digital signatures based on DNSSEC. All three premises are identical — hardened facilities with five levels of physical security surrounding a set of cryptography keys held on behalf of 14 countries. The responsibility for physical and cryptographic security is divided between two teams.
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Leahy Praises Administration Officials for Domain Seizures
June 22, 2011 @ 6:02 AMSenate Judiciary chairman Patrick Leahy (D-Vt. highlighted the Obama administration’s recent crackdown on digital piracy on Wednesday, crediting officials for seizing domains of sites trafficking in counterfeit goods.
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ICANN to Open Up New Internet Domain Names: Who Benefits?
June 22, 2011 @ 5:43 AMFor the first time, the Internet is unleveling the playing field a bit – small businesses, startups, and entrepreneurs need not apply. And, as some observers point out, the new names may potentially be a great source of confusion and legal wrangling.
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Real Estate Owner of .com Domain Sues for .co Domain Name
June 22, 2011 @ 12:44 AMReal estate firm sues owner of .co. The owner of a .com domain name has filed a lawsuit (pdf) to get the .co version of their domain name. This is the first such .co federal anticybersquatting lawsuit I’m aware of (although there have been plenty of UDRPs and I don’t think a complainant has lost yet). Real estate company Sibcy Cline filed…
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Network Solutions Hit With DDOS Attack & Domain Names Become Inaccessible
June 21, 2011 @ 7:32 PMNetwork Solutions experienced a distributed denial of service attack Monday afternoon, June 20, 2011 and again on Tuesday morning, June 21, 2011. Our engineers worked quickly to mitigate the attacks and services are in the process of being restored. We continue to monitor this situation, as potential risk still exists for these attacks to recur.
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Web Addresses Enter New.era
June 21, 2011 @ 4:25 PMThe organization that regulates the world’s Internet domain names approved changes that will allow companies and individuals to potentially register any name they like in almost any language, a step that could change the way users navigate the Web.
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Lawyer: Domain Name Rule Changes Will Cost Governments
June 21, 2011 @ 5:55 AMThe rule changes set forth earlier this week by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) that will allow new generic top-level domain (gTLD) names could end up costing governments quite a bit of money, whether they apply to own one of the extensions or not.
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