In keeping track of ICANN developments on behalf of my customers, a recent meeting of the ICANN board in Norway on the 24-25th of September, resulted in a number of announcements posted on Sunday. Across a list of adopted board resolutions, point 2.6, regarding trademark protection interested me the most, which stated:
“Substantive Evaluation: The Applicant …
Each domain name potentially serves a dual purpose, that of fence and banner. By registering your brand name as a domain name, you can mitigate the risk of third party infringement by staking a claim to your brand’s rightful virtual property. At the same time, this registration also serves to improve your brand promotion efforts …
Oh my. Both Snooki and “The Situation” find themselves trademarkless. Makes you wonder if they know what a trademark full search is?
Nicole Polizzi aka “Snooki” attempted to register her name in August for “books, namely printed matter” but found her application was denied on the basis of “likelihood of confusion” by the United States Patent …
The Taiwan registry, Taiwan Network Information Center (TWNIC), has offered the ability to register IDN.ASCII (aka “IDN.TW”) since 2004. When registering an IDN.TW, if a registrant ordered the name using Traditional Chinese characters for the domain string, the registry would automatically allocate the Simplified Chinese version (if it existed) of the name (and vice versa) …
Tags: .TW, cctld, ICANN Fast Track, IDN, IDNccTLD, internationalized domain names, Simplified Chinese, Taiwan, Traditional Chinese, TWNIC
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CSC has been advised that CNNIC, the registry operator for .CN, will be dispatching a second e-mail notice to registrants of .CN domains registered before December 14, 2009 requesting confirmation that the following information is true, accurate and correct for each domain listed on the notice:
Domain Name
Registrant ID
Registrant Name
Registrant Organization
Registrar Name
These notices will be sent …
“What’s in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.” – Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet (II, ii, 1-2)
With all the attention that Internationalized Domain Names (IDNs) have garnered over recent months, is a rose by any other name still a rose? And moreover, does it really matter …