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ICANN to Adopt Most of The New gTLD “Strawman”
March 20, 2013 @ 3:41 AMICANN has given a boost to trademark owners by saying it will implement most of the controversial “strawman” solution to extend protections under the new gTLD program. In a video just posted to ICANN’s web site, CEO Fadi Chehade said that Claims 2 and the Limited Preventative Registrations proposals have been thrown out for the […]
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The Weather Channel's Power Play: Attempt at Domain Name Grab
March 20, 2013 @ 3:00 AMThe Weather Channel LLC has filed an application with Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) to take ownership of the .weather domain, contending it would allow for consumers to access weather information conveniently from trusted sources under a single umbrella.
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Did Uniregistry over-sell the auction antitrust risk?
March 20, 2013 @ 1:13 AMUniregistry’s revelation that it believes private auctions to resolve new gTLD contention sets may be illegal — based on its talks with the US Department of Justice — has caused widespread angst. Following yesterday’s news, some commentators — some interested — questioned the company’s motive for revealing that Justice had declined to give private auctions […]
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Bloomberg Sues Sploggers Using Google’s Blogger
March 20, 2013 @ 12:57 AMCompany upset over blogs using “Bloomberg” in subdomain and scraping Bloomberg content. Bloomberg has filed a lawsuit (pdf) in U.S. District Court in New York against four John Does using Google’s Blogger service. The defendants have set up blogs on the service that use third level domains that include the Bloomberg name. Bloomberg says the […]
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Demand Media Sets Up Dublin Office for Domain Services
March 19, 2013 @ 11:14 PMCompany makes formal announcement about operations in Ireland. Demand Media announced today that it is opening its international headquarters for the company’s domain services business in Dublin, Ireland. Demand Media is serving as the backend registry provider for its own top level domains (applied for under United TLD Holdco Ltd.) as well as Donuts’. United […]
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Industry Coalition Objects to Google's Domain Names Applications
March 19, 2013 @ 2:33 PMFairSearch.org, which is backed by Microsoft, Nokia and Oracle, said Google could get a competitive advantage from generic industry terms…
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Fairsearch Objects to Google's "Top-domain Name Land Grab"
March 19, 2013 @ 9:15 AMFairSearch is taking its anti-Google battle to the domain space. The organization — which is backed by the likes of Microsoft, TripAdvisor, Nokia and o…
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Why a DOJ Block On New TLD Auctions Doesn’t Make Sense
March 19, 2013 @ 6:19 AMI have a hard time understanding how a private auction would be illegal in the case of new TLD allocation. A couple weeks ago a new TLD applicant told me they weren’t participating in private TLD auctions because they thought the auctions would ran afoul of U.S. laws. Now we have some confirmation that there […]
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DOJ Says New gTLD Private Auctions Might Be Illegal
March 19, 2013 @ 4:36 AMCompanies hoping to resolve their new gTLD contention sets via private auction are about to get a rude awakening: according to the US Department of Justice, they might be illegal. Portfolio applicant Uniregistry, the company founded by domainer Frank Schilling, said today that the DoJ has told it that: arrangements by which private parties agree […]
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Fairsearch Files Formal Objections Against Google’s .search, .fly and .map TLD Applications
March 19, 2013 @ 2:39 AMGroup claims three TLDs would give Google an unfair competitive advantage. A consortium that promotes competition in search has filed objections against three of Google’s top level domain bids. Robin Wauters with The Next Web was the first to write about the objections this morning. FairSearch filed objections with International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) over […]
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