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Cadna Wants ACPA Amended to Increase Penalties & Cover Ppc Providers & Parking Companies
April 10, 2013 @ 11:37 PMThe Collation Against Domain Abuse (CADNA) issued a paper last night calling for lawmaker to increase the penalties for Cybersquatters and to expand the parties that are held responsible for cybersquatting, not only the domain holder, but basically everyone in the monetization food chain, which would including parking and PPC companies presumable the upstream providers including Google by amending the Anticybersquatting Consumer Protection Act (ACPA).
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Mali Offers Free .ml Domains to Anyone. What Could *Possibly* Go Wrong?
April 10, 2013 @ 8:20 PMIt’s good news if you’re a cybercriminal. But probably not something that’s going to do much good for one of the world’s poorest countries.
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ICANN Says It Will Allow Chinese Top-level Domain Names This Year
April 10, 2013 @ 1:07 PMThe president of ICANN (the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) Fady Chehade told the Wall Street Journal that the organization will launch C..
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ICANN Starts Using Salesforce.com for The Customer Portal
April 10, 2013 @ 5:29 AMICANN will be implementing a new and improved self-service customer portal, based on the trusted Salesforce.com platform. Starting Tuesday, April 16, 2013 (UTC), you will be able to electronically submit cases and receive real-time updates on the status of these …
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2 More Objections Hit The ICC: .rugby & .insurance
April 10, 2013 @ 5:15 AMA couple of more objection have hit the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) site today as part of ICANN new gTLD program.
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ICANN Headed for GAC Fight Over Igo Pleading
April 10, 2013 @ 3:28 AMICANN may be heading for a bust-up with its Governmental Advisory Committee over the issue of a special domain name block-list for intergovernmental organizations. The board of directors this week indicated at a meeting with the GAC in Beijing that it’s prepared to deny the GAC’s official demand for IGO protection at second level in […]
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Google Amends 4 New gTLD Applications: .app, .blog, .cloud, and .search
April 10, 2013 @ 2:51 AMCharleston Road Registry (Google) send a letter to ICANN announcing the amendment of 4 new gTLD applications. Google intends to operate a redirect service on the “dotless” .search domain (<a href="http://search/" rel="nofollow">http://search/</a>), the .app TLD will be restricted for use by relevant …
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CitizenHawk Sued After Sending Two Cease & Desist Letters
April 10, 2013 @ 1:48 AMMan sues domain recovery firm after receiving two cease & desist letters. A San Diego man has sued typosquatting recovery firm CitizenHawk after receiving two cease & desist letters. Michael Eddy says he received letters regarding USSearchReports.com and Naturalizes.com. The first letter said USSearchReports.com infringes the rights of Intelius’ mark for “US Search.com”. The second […]
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Purva.com Bought in May 2012 Saved in UDRP: GoDaddy Placeholder May Have Saved It
April 10, 2013 @ 1:32 AMThe Complainant is Puravankara Projects Limited of Bangalore, Karnataka, India, just lost a UDRP on the domain name purva.com which turns out to be a pretty interesting case with a long fact pattern. The domain was orinally owned by the Complaintant who lost it many years ago do to non-renew it appears.
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20th Century Fox Ready for 21st Century With Domain Registrations
April 10, 2013 @ 12:07 AMCompany registers domain names of current and future centuries. When 20th Century Fox (aka Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation) was founded in the 1930s I’m sure it seemed like a great name. But now that we’re in the 21st century, doesn’t the name seem a little old fashioned? Like Prince talking about partying like it’s […]
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