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Full Text of The Protect IP Act Released: The Good, The Bad and The Horribly Ugly
May 11, 2011 @ 12:21 AMYesterday, we got our hands on a leaked copy of the “summary” document put together by those writing the new version of COICA, now renamed the much more media friendly PROTECT IP Act. It looked bad, but some people complained that we were jumping ahead without the actual text of the bill, even if the summary document was pretty straightforward and was put together by the same people creating the bill. Thankfully, the folks over at Don’t Censor the Internet have the full text of the PROTECT IP Act, which I’ve embedded below as well. Let’s break it down into the good, the bad and the horribly ugly.
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Priority Sunrise Registration of Chinese, Japanese and Korean .Asia Domain Names Begins Worldwide
May 10, 2011 @ 10:23 PMDotAsia today launches Sunrise for Chinese, Japanese and Korean Internationalized Domain Name (IDN) registrations (<a href="http://www.idn.asia" rel="nofollow">http://www.idn.asia</a>) and announces the opening of the IDN Pioneer Domains Program (<a href="http://www.think.asia" rel="nofollow">http://www.think.asia</a>). The Pioneer Domains Program is open for any interested applicants to build out the best domains (e.g. <a href="http://xn--tlq248c.asia" rel="nofollow">http://xn--tlq248c.asia</a> (“trade.asia” in Chinese), <a href="http://xn--yckc3dwa.asia" rel="nofollow">http://xn--yckc3dwa.asia</a> (“video.asia” in Japanese),<a href="http://xn--o79al52c.asia" rel="nofollow">http://xn--o79al52c.asia</a> (“game.asia” in Korean), while Sunrise provides registered businesses, trademark holders and existing “.Asia” domain holders priority to protect their brands in the largest and fastest growing Asian Internet marketplace. Application is not on first-come-first-served basis. Applicants will not be rejected as long as they submit it before the July 20th deadline.
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New URS Ploy From Overreaching TM Interests Aims to Make It Easier to Take Away Your Domains
May 10, 2011 @ 1:21 PMICANN’s Commercial and Business Users Constituency is proposing that .net be required to adopt some ” rights protection” mechanisms from the new gTLD program (even though that program hasn’t even been implemented yet!), including the Uniform Rapid Suspension (URS) system that could prove to be enormously damaging to domain owners. If this plan, which would open the door for valuable domains to be suspended, and even transferred, based on a proceeding that costs only $300, slips through unchallenged, the untested URS could be available to complainants against .net domains as soon as July 1st. Even worse, you can then expect it to be imposed on .com next year when that contract comes up again.
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Cleveland Browns Win Browns.com Domain Name
May 10, 2011 @ 1:44 AMNFL team gets rights to Browns.com domain name. The Cleveland Browns football team just scored a big win off the field. A World Intellectual Property Forum panel awarded the team the domain name Browns.com in arbitration. According to the football franchise, the owner of the domain name used the page as a parked domain name with pay-per-click links to football topics. When the team reached out to the owner of the domain name, the name of the owner in the whois database suddenly changed.
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Companies Prepare to Bid for Branded Domain Names
May 9, 2011 @ 11:05 PMMarketers are gearing up to invest hundreds of thousands of pounds in buying their own brand as online domain names, amid fears that the new URLs will provoke confusion among consumers.
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Next UK Second-level Domain Signed
May 9, 2011 @ 3:01 PMThe next second-level domain name in the UK under DNSSEC has been signed, with .co.uk being added to .me.uk.
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Insight into ICANN’s Affirmation of Commitments
May 9, 2011 @ 2:55 PMI recently had the opportunity to read A. Michael Froomkin’s research paper, “Almost Free: An Analysis of ICANN’s ‘Affirmation of Commitments’” (AOC), which examines both the legal and political effects of the AOC. In my opinion, Froomkin’s research is thorough and enlightening, explaining how and why the AOC came into being; what it changes and what it does not change; and what kind of impact it will have.
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High-level DNSSEC Domain Security Gets Signed for .co.uk Names
May 5, 2011 @ 9:06 PMTHE UK domain .co.uk is now DNSSEC signed, which means that website owners can now choose to protect their domain names with an added level of security.
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House Subcommittee Scrutinizes Possible Domain Name Expansion Investment
May 5, 2011 @ 3:49 AMThe House Judiciary Subcommittee on Intellectual Property, Competition and the Internet held a hearing Wednesday to investigate the possible effects of expanding Internet domain names beyond the traditional suffixes like .com and .net to potentially anything a registrant could type.
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Monte Cahn Sues Oversee.net Over $13 Million Incentive Plan
May 4, 2011 @ 10:39 AMMoniker founder Monte Cahn has sued Oversee.net along with its current CEO Jeff Kupietzky and founder Lawrence Ng over a $13 million incentive plan.
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