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IDN Community Reacts to Verisign’s .com Transliteration Selections
June 27, 2012 @ 2:26 AMThe good, the bad, and the ugly of Verisign’s IDN plans. Verisign applied for 12 internationalized top level domain names as part of the new TLD program. These domain names are transliterations of .com and .net. A transliteration is different from a translation. Transliteration maps the sounds of one language to the best matching script…
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.nxt Conference Rescheduled for August
June 26, 2012 @ 11:55 PMLondon top level domain conference moved due to program delays. Kieren McCarthy’s .Nxt conference about new top level domain names has been rescheduled for August 29-31. The event was originally scheduled for last week, but became of a victim of ICANN’s delayed announcement of new top level domain applicants. Canceling or moving the dates of…
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Lawyers Shoot Client in Foot in Dothekindthing.com UDRP
June 26, 2012 @ 11:33 PMNot so kind. A World Intellectual Property Organization panelist has ruled that the registrant of DoTheKindThing.com can keep her domain name. The case was brought by Kind, LLC f/k/a Peaceworks Holding LLC, which sells Kind snacks. The case is notable for two reasons: 1. Kind’s lawyers, McCarter & English, LLP, made some poor decisions in […]
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Want a .music domain name? Prepare to play politics
June 26, 2012 @ 3:28 PMThe organization that oversees Web addresses — the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) — is in the midst of hearing offers from companies interested in getting the exclusive rights to a bunch of recently released domain extensions, including .xxx, .tickets and more. At the forefront of the battle to manage .music domain names, though, is a powerful group of industry giants, and they want to be able to regulate who can host what on what could soon be the most sought after addresses on the Web.
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Go Daddy Says Request to Move Homelandsecurityus.com Not About Politics
June 26, 2012 @ 6:12 AMCompany says campaign committee and politics not at play in request to change web hosts. Last Friday GoDaddy.com sent a notice to the owner of Homelandsecurityus.com informing him that he needed to find a new home for his domain name and web site. Douglas J. Hagmann, founder of the site, tells his story here.
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ICANN Sends Breach Notice to Tucows
June 26, 2012 @ 2:06 AMOrganization sends notice of breach to third largest domain name registrar. ICANN has sent a notice of breach to Tucows, the third largest domain name registrar. This breach notice is unusual in that it seems to stem from a dispute over a particular domain name. According to the letter, Tucows is in breach of its…
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Intriguing Domain Name Related Trademark Filings
June 26, 2012 @ 1:49 AMFrom “Domain Sales” to .YT, some interesting filings. I checked in to the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office site this morning to see if there were any interesting domain name related trademark applications. Indeed, I’d say so. First off is an application from Kikabink Pty Ltd in Australia for the mark “Domain Sales”.
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If You Play The ICANN Game, Expect to Get Burned
June 25, 2012 @ 11:50 PMMore wasted money and resources. Get used to it. It’s never pretty seeing the sausage get made. It hasn’t been pretty seeing the new TLD program launch. A handful of companies invested a lot of money early on as they worked to help form ICANN’s new top level domain program. As the program creation process…
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New Internet Domain Names May Make for a More Tangled Web
June 25, 2012 @ 9:11 AMRather than continue to dictate which new gTLDs were made available, ICANN decided to open applications for new gTLDs to everyone. This was not a cheap process — an application fee of $185,000 presented a serious barrier to frivolous applicants.
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.art and .church Leading The Race for Public Comments On Top Level Domain Applications
June 25, 2012 @ 4:39 AMPublic comments on new TLD applications range from boring to misinformed. Anyone with an email address (and I do mean anyone) can comment on any one of the nearly 2,000 top level domain applications. As of right now there are 161 submitted comments, mostly covering just a handful of proposed top level domains.
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