14 August 2012 Last updated at 17:44 Campaigners say the .gay domain would help offer support to the homosexual and bisexual community Opposition to the creation of the internet address ending .gay has been voiced by Saudi Arabia. Its Communications and Information Technology Commission (CITC) said the action would be “offensive” to some societies and [...]
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Tuesday, August 14th, 2012ICANN Reveals the Applications for the New gTLD’s: It’s Time for Brand Owners …
Thursday, August 2nd, 2012You 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 Publishes List of Applications in gTLD Expansion Program
Wednesday, July 4th, 2012Over the last year, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has been engaged in the first round of its planned expansion of generic Top-Level Domain (gTLD) names. gTLDs are internet domains with general address extensions, such as .com, .net and .edu. There are presently 22 gTLDs, and this expansion plan could add [...]
gTLDs: Brand owners should check domain suffix applications
Monday, June 25th, 2012Home | News events | Legal updates | gTLDs: Brand owners should check domain suffix applications 25 June 2012 For years, internet users have been used to typing into their browsers domain names ending with relatively few suffixes, of which .com has been easily the most common. Although there are many national level suffixes (such [...]
ICANN Reveals Applied-For gTLD Strings
Wednesday, June 20th, 2012[authors: Matthew Schoonover and Timothy Toohey] June 13 marked “Reveal Day” — the day on which the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) released the list of applied-for generic top-level domains (gTLD). These new gTLD suffixes, which follow the “.” in a domain name, expand the number of available options beyond the familiar [...]
US Companies Show Most Interest in New Top-level Domain Names
Tuesday, June 19th, 2012Seven companies want news, eight want music or a movie, and seven want love. Four want pizza, but none of them make it. Only two want sex, and one even wants a unicorn. Those names figure among the 1930 applications to create and operate new generic top-level domains (gTLDs) revealed Wednesday by the Internet Corporation [...]
Land of resilience and coping with opression
Tuesday, June 12th, 2012Centenary celebrations. We are celebrating 100 years of the existence of the ANC. At the moment the ANC is doing their level best to outperform the Nationalist party and its midwife, the Broederbond. The ANC and the Broederbond were born around the same time. Both are nationalist organizations. The ANC nationalists are of a black [...]
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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 [...]