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Afilias Forecasts 5,000 to 50,000 Domains for Its New TLDs After Three Years
August 5, 2013 @ 6:18 AMCompany forecasts only 4 of its new TLD strings having over 50,000 DUM after three years. For the most part, new top level domain applicants have remained quiet about their registration projections. There’s a good reason for this, especially if they’re in a contention set with other applicants. If competitors know how many domains they […]
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NTIA Alarmed As Verisign Hints That It Will Not Delegate New gTLDs
August 5, 2013 @ 12:49 AMVerisign has escalated its war against competition by telling its government masters that it is not ready to add new gTLDs to the DNS root, raising eyebrows at NTIA. The company told the US National Telecommunications and Information Administration in late May that the lack of uniform monitoring across the 13 root servers means it […]
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Network Solutions Shuts Down 3 Iranian Websites
August 2, 2013 @ 1:39 PMRegistrants are agency of the Iranian government or Specially Designated Nationals. Web.com, parent company of domain name registrar Network Solutions, revealed today that it has shut down three Iranian websites due to the The Iran Threat Reduction and Syria Human Rights Act of 2012. In its SEC filing, the company details three organizations that Network […]
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Clean Sweep for gTLD Applicants As 91 Pass
August 2, 2013 @ 11:58 AMNinety-one new gTLD applications passed Initial Evaluation this week, as ICANN enters the final month of results. There were no failures to report. The following strings, with links to the relevant applicant on DI PRO, achieved passing scores: .staples .gmo .hot .organic .degree .quebec .ricoh .guardian .hiphop .llp .ram .ieee .kpmg .obi .game .style .blackfriday […]
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WIPO Panel Rejects Legal Rights Objection to Google’s .tube Application
August 2, 2013 @ 8:55 AMLatin American Telecom, LLC of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, represented by ESQwirecom has become the latest Objector to lose a Legal rights Objection…
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If .amazon is Killed, Will Amazon Bail On The New TLD Program?
August 2, 2013 @ 6:45 AMAmazon may be questioning its role in the first round of new top level domain applications. With the Governmental Advisory Committee (GAC) recommending that ICANN block Amazon.com’s application for the .amazon top level domain, it poses an interesting question: should Amazon.com bail out on the entire new TLD program? Assuming ICANN’s board agrees with the […]
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TLDH and Tucows Team Up On 3 Top Level Domain Names
August 2, 2013 @ 5:33 AMTwo TLD applicants pool resources. Top Level Domain Holdings and Tucows are combining resources in an effort to lock down three top level domain names that are in contention sets. Tucows had applied for .group and TLDH applied for .tech and .store. By teaming up, each company will contribute to auction funds and take a […]
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Vertical Axis Gets Hit With UDRP On The 12 Year Old Domain Lulac.com By Owner of The .org & .net
August 2, 2013 @ 5:23 AMA UDRP has been filed against Vertical Axis, Inc. on the domain name Lulac.com. Although the Complainant is not listed, the most likely suspect is The League of United Latin American Citizens, which was established in 1929 and operates under the domain names Lulac.org and Lulac.net…
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That’s All Folks, No More LRO News
August 2, 2013 @ 4:17 AMThe results of Legal Rights Objections against new gTLD applications are no longer news. That’s the decision handed down by the editor here at DI’s Global World International Headquarters today. “Hey, Keith,” she barked from her ermine-carpeted corner office. “This LRO stuff is getting a bit old, don’t you think?” “My name’s Kevin,” I said. […]
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ICANN to Crack Down On UDRP Cyberflight
August 2, 2013 @ 1:28 AMICANN has moved closer to cracking down on cybersquatters who try to flip their domains when they discover they’ve been hit with a UDRP complaint. Under recommendations approved by the GNSO Council yesterday, registrars would be bound by a much stricter set of UDRP-related domain locking rules in future. So-called “cyberflight” — where squatters transfer […]
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