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 …
I have the privilege of having worked in the domain industry for a decade now. At the beginning of that career path, I worked for a registrar that was aiming to be corporate, but still predominantly start up. As a result of that experience, there are many areas that I could compare to using a …
Late last week VeriSign, the registry operator for .COM and .NET, and Telnic, the registry operator for .TEL, submitted separate Registry Services Requests to the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) that would enable both to release previously unreleased 1 & 2 character domain names.
According to VeriSign request documents,
“…VeriSign intends to allocate single …
As you will certainly have been made aware by the numerous press articles on the subject, from 14th September, Google will extend advertisers’ rights to bid on brand names in all 27 countries of the EU. This is already the case in the US, Canada, the UK and Ireland. The European Court of Justice ruled …
After 6 years of controversy, the ICM Registry’s application for the .XXX TLD was approved by the ICANN Board in late June 2010. ICM is currently engaged in contract negotiations with ICANN and does not expect to launch until Q4 of 2010 or Q1 of 2011, however, in the interim the Registry has announced that …
The .EG Registry, the National Telecommunications Regulatory Authority (NTRA), has announced the launch schedule for domain name registration in the Arabic IDN.ccTLD for Egypt (.مصر ). This new ccTLD will be launched in 3 phases:
Sunrise 1 (now closed) – Registration open to Governmental institutions.
Sunrise 2 (August 22, 2010 – TBA) – Registration open to those …
First of all, let’s look at what an IDN is. An IDN (Internationalised domain name), is an Internet domain name that contains at least one label that is displayed in software applications, in whole or in part, in a language-specific script or alphabet. The Domain Name System, which performs a lookup service to translate user-friendly …
Having worked in the industry for many years now, I have seen all shapes and sizes of domain portfolios. Whilst understanding the value of your trademark portfolio can be a difficult process, establishing the value of your domain portfolio can be achieved using the expertise and tools your domain service provider can provide. The two fundamental …
ICANN’s 38th International Public Meeting is underway in Brussels. One of the largest TLD operators in the world, EURid, is hosting ICANN 38 at the Square Brussels Meeting Centre. CSC will of course be attending and providing the opportunity to participate in a Web Seminar on June 30th, where will share what was learned, provide …
One of the main questions put forward by the majority of brand owners is “How can I protect my trademarks within the new gTLD space?” ICANN have just released DAG (Draft Applicant Guidebook) number four. It is encouraging to see that the rights of trademark owners are being given extensive consideration within the new gTLD …