Perhaps hoping it would never come to pass, you are likely one of many who is not yet conversant regarding ICANN’s[1] new generic top level domains (“gTLDs”). A recent survey by Melbourne IT Digital Brand Services discovered that even most trademark attorneys do not have a true understanding of this recent expansion of the Internet. [...]
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What Is A New gTLD And Why You Should Care: A gTLD Primer For Brand Owners
Saturday, October 6th, 2012Saudi royals seek ban on .virgin, .sex, .catholic, .wtf and 159 MORE
Tuesday, August 14th, 2012The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has objected to the proposed new top-level internet domains .virgin and .baby – applied for by Virgin Group and Johnson Johnson respectively – on the grounds that they will encourage pornography. The bizarre claims are among 163 complaints about new dot-word gTLD applications that the Saudi Communication and Information Technology [...]
Those gTLD applications: a message from Cyberspace
Tuesday, July 10th, 2012ICANN has published the list of 1,900 applications. Trade mark owners concerned about an application for a new gTLD can file a Public Comment for free which will be considered by the evaluators – but time is running out so act soon (12 August)! The Public Comment period acts as a type of informal objection process. [...]
ICANN Officially Kills Digital Archery
Thursday, June 28th, 2012ICANN has officially killed off the Digital Archery program in an announcement today. “”Resolved the New gTLD Program Committee directs the President and CEO to terminate the Digital Archery process as approved in Resolutions 2011.12.08.04-2011.12.08.07.” Rationale for Resolution: “To remain accountable to the ICANN community, after careful consideration of the objections raised to the digital [...]
ICANN Officially Kills Digital Archery
Thursday, June 28th, 2012ICANN has officially killed off the Digital Archery program in an announcement today. “”Resolved the New gTLD Program Committee directs the President and CEO to terminate the Digital Archery process as approved in Resolutions 2011.12.08.04-2011.12.08.07.” Rationale for Resolution: “To remain accountable to the ICANN community, after careful consideration of the objections raised to the digital [...]
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 [...]
Google Wants Love and 100 Other Things
Wednesday, June 20th, 2012Google wants love. But so do six other companies. They are after .love, actually, a new “top-level domain” that could catch on as .com, .org and .net did. Love might not prevail, but chances are, at least one of the domains in 1,930 applications for new extensions will. The domains are the letters that follow [...]
Likely Timeline to New gTLD Delegation With Batching
Tuesday, June 19th, 2012Today, the team at ARI Registry Services decided to tread where no-one has tread before and map out the likely timeline to new gTLD delegation with batching. The exercise took some time, given that the information provided in the Applicant Guidebook is limited and there hasn’t been any specific public data made available. However, we [...]
Brand owners/trademark holders: The top 10 things to do on ICANN’s upcoming …
Saturday, June 9th, 2012ICANN will hold a special news conference in London UK on June 13th 2012, only days from now, where they will finally unveil the gTLD applicants and strings. The “big reveal” event as everybody is calling it, will finally shed some light on which city’s, governments, companies, brands, organizations, domain registry start-ups, and others have [...]
ICANN names ‘Independent Objector" to new gTLDs
Tuesday, May 15th, 2012ICANN names ‘Independent Objector” to new gTLDs Stuart CornerTuesday, 15 May 2012 16:08 IT Policy – Regulation ICANN has named Alain Pellet, a former chairperson of the International Law Commission, to the curiously titled role of ‘Independent Objector’ for its new generic top-level domain program. His role will be to try and prevent registration of [...]
A Gap in the New gTLD Applicant Guidebook?
Tuesday, March 27th, 2012Community or Standard? I strongly believe there is a serious “breach” in the Applicant Guidebook: I checked the scoring, I checked the possible objections, I am aware of the Governmental Advisory Committee (GAC) early warning but I really could not find … …how ICANN is going to avoid Community applications to be submitted as Standard [...]
WIPO Named Exclusive Arbitrator of “Legal Rights Objections” for New gTLD Program
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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 [...]