You may recall that earlier this year the International Corporation of Assigned Names and Numbers (“ICANN”) began a historic expansion of the internet domain name system by accepting applications for new generic top level domain names (“gTLD’s”) (i.e. the string of letters to the right of the dot in a domain name). (See Changes in [...]
ICANN’s New gTLDs Program: Disputes, Comments and Objections
Tuesday, July 17th, 2012What if someone applied for a new generic Top Level Domain (gTLD) that is confusingly similar to the gTLD applied for by your company? Who has standing to file an objection or to submit a public comment in response to an applied-for gTLD? These are the questions that many participants and observers of the Internet Corporation [...]