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Armani Loses Domain Dispute for EA7.com
May 13, 2013 @ 1:40 AMRespondent argued EA was short for Education Assistance. Fashion brand Giorgio Armani has lost a domain name dispute with a South Korean group over the domain name EA7.com. Armani sells a line of sports clothing under the EA7 name. It appears that the EA7 brand was around prior to the domain registrant acquiring the domain […]
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Massive Internet Policy Database Planned in Europe
May 13, 2013 @ 12:28 AMThe European Commission plans to build a massive web site and database of information related to global internet policy-making. The Global Internet Policy Observatory, which is still in the planning stages, would be a “clearinghouse for monitoring Internet policy, regulatory and technological developments across the world”. The idea appears to be to make it easier […]
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URS Providers to Get Contracts
May 12, 2013 @ 11:31 PMThe companies handling Uniform Rapid Suspension domain name disputes will be bound to a contract, ICANN has said. In a follow-up Q&A document (pdf) from the public forum session at the ICANN meeting in Beijing last month, posted Friday, ICANN said: As regards Uniform Rapid Suspension (URS) providers, will there be a contract developed that […]
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New gTLD Program Posts 50 New Initial Evaluation Results: 56 Applications Get a Pass (Total is 300)
May 12, 2013 @ 9:30 PMThe next set of Initial Evaluation Results was released by ICANN. The total number of passing applications is now 300. ICANN released Initial Evaluation (IE) results for the next set of applications with priority numbers 300-350. There are 56 applications …
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Icann Looking for Locations for 2015 Meetings in Africa, Latin America/Caribbean Islands, Europe
May 11, 2013 @ 9:26 PMICANN is actively seeking locations for its three public meetings to be held 8-12 February 2015 in Africa, 21-25 June 2015 in Latin America/Caribbean Islands, and 18-22 October 2015 in Europe. Those in the geographic regions are invited to submit recommendations …
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An SEC Filing Explanation of Demand Media’s Deal With Donuts
May 10, 2013 @ 6:00 AMSEC filing sheds (some) light on relationship for new top level domains. A lot of fuss has been made about the connection between Demand Media and Donuts and the new TLD program. What exactly is the relationship between the two companies? Demand Media’s latest 10-Q, filed today, explains the terms of the agreement: As part […]
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Waternight Becomes Official Traffic Party
May 10, 2013 @ 5:30 AMParty moved back one night and becomes official sponsored event. The WaterNight event to take place in Las Vegas during this month’s TRAFFIC show is now the conference’s official Thursday night party. The event was going to be held on Wednesday night and open to everyone. The event was pushed back one evening and is […]
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56 More New gTLDs Pass Evaluation Including .cpa, .dell, .esurance and .film
May 10, 2013 @ 2:44 AMICANN’s evaluators have passed 56 more new gTLD applications through Initial Evaluation. The latest weekly batch of published results cover bids for the following strings: .aig, .airforce, .art, .axa, .baby, .basketball, .bid, .business, .bzh, .cal, .center, .ceo, .cisco, .cloud, .coach, .codes, .contractors, .cpa, .dell, .diet, .docomo, .duns, .durban, .esurance, .film, .forex, .goo, .got, .guide, .hgtv, […]
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Will You Be Too Sexy for .sexy?
May 10, 2013 @ 1:35 AMUniregistry is planning to implement strict sexiness restrictions in its forthcoming .sexy gTLD, according to a fake press release we’ve just received. Uniregistry, the portfolio gTLD applicant run by domainer Frank Schilling, is the only applicant for .sexy. The company lied in the press release: Upon applying to register for a .sexy domain, registrants will […]
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Pinky Brand Predicts 408.5 Million Domains By The End of 2016, 73.6m New gTLDs
May 10, 2013 @ 1:12 AMPinky Brand just published some bold predictions for the number of domain names that will exist in 2016 including registrations from new gTLD’s. For those that don’t know, Pinky is one of the founders of .mobi, which is “today ranked in the top 30 off the roughly 268 existing TLDs worldwide with nearly 1.1 million active domains in the zone.”
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