Religious convictions are emerging as the key battle line in the massive domain name expansion currently in progress at internet addressing overlord ICANN. Morality in Media, a largely Christian, US-based anti-pornography group, has become the first religious organisation to kick off a formal campaign against what it seems a “harmful” porn-themed new generic top-level domains. [...]
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Religious wars brewing in ICANN gTLD expansion
Thursday, July 12th, 2012Amazon, Google, And The Prospect of Closed gTLDs – Don’t Believe …
Wednesday, June 27th, 2012There have been a lot of complaints leveled at companies like Amazon and Google who have applied to register a number of new gTLDs. The criticism is that the public will not benefit from having Amazon own .book, .store, .you, and .grocery if they only use it for their own purposes and don’t open them [...]
ICANN Releases List of 1400 Possible New Internet Top-Level …
Tuesday, June 26th, 2012ICANN Releases List of 1,400 Possible New Internet Top-Level Domains by George H. Pike Posted On June 21, 2012 With a range of possibilities from “AAA” through “Zulu,” on June 13, 2012, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) released its highly anticipated list of potential new generic Top Level Domains (gTLDs) for [...]
ICANN Releases List of 1400 Possible New Internet Top Level …
Thursday, June 21st, 2012ICANN Releases List of 1,400 Possible New Internet Top Level Domains by George H. Pike Posted On June 21, 2012 With a range of possibilities from “AAA” through “Zulu,” on June 13, 2012, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) released its highly anticipated list of potential new generic Top Level Domains (gTLDs) [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Domain attorney Doug Isenberg explains what the proposed $150 fee will get you …
Thursday, June 7th, 2012As we reported earlier, ICANN has selected IBM Deloitte as providers of trademark clearinghouse services for the new gTLD’s. Today, Doug Isenberg, a veteran domain name attorney and founder of The GigaLaw Firm has decided to chime in on the matter. He explains in detail what the proposed TMCH service actually provides at his blog, [...]
Startup Applies for 307 Generic Top-level Domains
Tuesday, June 5th, 2012A startup named Donuts has raised US$100 million in venture capital and has applied for 307 generic top-level domains in the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers’ open gTLD application process, the company said Tuesday. Donuts’ gTLD applications are for generic, dictionary terms, said Jon Nevett, a cofounder and vice president of corporate affairs [...]
Firm applies for .sucks domain
Friday, June 1st, 2012A new company is planning to operate .sucks as a top-level internet domain, and its CEO says he expects big brands to embrace the concept. Vox Populi Registry is one of several companies to today announce that they have paid domain name gatekeeper ICANN a $185,000 application fee to try to get their hands on [...]
ICANN gTLD application system back in action
Thursday, May 24th, 2012“During the last few weeks, we have fixed the technical glitch that caused us to take the system offline,” Atallah said. “Also, to address user feedback, we have improved the overall system performance and the HTML preview function.” ICANN had earlier reported that system response had slowed down before TAS was taken down because of [...]
ICANN targets reopening generic top-level domain system
Sunday, May 13th, 2012IDG News Service – Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) hopes to reopen on May 22 its system that will allow people to apply for a variety of new generic top-level domains (gTLDs). The TAS (TLD application system) was brought down on April 12 by the organization after it found a software glitch [...]
ICANN targets May 22 for reopening gTLD application system
Saturday, May 12th, 2012Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) hopes to reopen on May 22 its system that will allow people to apply for a variety of new generic top-level domains (gTLDs). The TAS (TLD application system) was brought down on April 12 by the organization after it found a software glitch in the way the [...]
ICANN targets May 22 for reopening gTLD application system
Thursday, May 10th, 2012Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) hopes to reopen on May 22 its system that will allow people to apply for a variety of new generic top-level domains (gTLDs). The TAS (TLD application system) was brought down on April 12 by the organization after it found a software glitch in the way the [...]
ICANN targets May 22 for reopening gTLD application system
Thursday, May 10th, 2012Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) hopes to reopen on May 22 its system that will allow people to apply for a variety of new generic top-level domains (gTLDs). The TAS (TLD application system) was brought down on April 12 by the organization after it found a software glitch in the way the [...]
ICANN Targets May 22 for Reopening GTLD Application System
Thursday, May 10th, 2012Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) hopes to reopen on May 22 its system that will allow people to apply for a variety of new generic top-level domains (gTLDs). The TAS (TLD application system) was brought down on April 12 by the organization after it found a software glitch in the way the [...]
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The Internet: ICANN’s New gTLD Program
Wednesday, June 20th, 2012The Internet is becoming a much bigger and more complex place for trademark owners, and ICANN’s New gTLD Program is something more for trademark counsel to consider as part of world wide protection of their client’s brands and marks. Ladas Parry and our affiliated domain name registrar, Ladas Domains, are ready to assist you in [...]