A Texas energy firm stands accused of registering two domain names for the express purpose of cybersquatting.
According to the Dallas Business Journal, two lawsuits have been filed against Christopher Faulkner, chief executive of Breitling Oil and Gas Corp.
Dallas-based Fusion Energy LLC has taken exception to the registration of the domain names …
The United Arab Emirates has announced that it is delaying the commencement of the Landrush phase of the .EMARAT (.امارات) IDN.IDN launch that was previously scheduled to begin on July 14, 2011. The Landrush phase is now scheduled to commence on September. 1, 2011. As a result, CSC has re-opened Landrush ordering for this TLD.
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Due to political unrest in Egypt, all Egyptian government agencies, including the National Telecommunications Regulatory Authority (NTRA) which handles all domain name registration activity, are closed until further notice. As a result, CSC is unable to process any registration, renewal, transfer or modification requests for .EG domain names at this time. CSC is in daily …
HKIRC, the Registry for .HK domain names, has announced that they plan to launch the new Chinese.hk IDN ccTLD in February/March 2011. In preparation for the launch, HKIRC will permanently discontinue offering Chinese.hk domain names starting January 18, 2011. Any Chinese.hk names registered before that date will continue to resolve and be renewable. In addition, any registrant …
On December 26th, ISOC-IL, the Israeli Domain Name Registry, will open public registration for domain names with Hebrew characters in .CO.IL and .ORG.IL (example: איגוד-האינטרנט.org.il). Registration will be on a first come, first served basis.
ISOC-L approved the registration of 398 Hebrew domain names during the Sunrise registration phase for Trademark holders, which ran from August …
The Somalia Registry, The Ministry of Post and Telecommunications, recently announced that they are extending the Sunrise Registration period from November 30, 2010 to December 31, 2010. With this change, the remaining phases will also be pushed back. The dates are now as follows:
• Sunrise Registration: November 1, 2010 – December 31, 2010
• Land Rush …
You may be wondering why the sudden need to expand the already rich 700+ portfolio of existing extensions, and who is driving this anyway? The registries? ICANN? Or is it public demand? Well as these things go, the answer is never that simple, and in short it’s a little bit of everyone. In the mean time, here are a few pointers in managing this onslaught on new extensions. First of all decide which ones are an opportunity for you and which ones are a threat….
The Somalia extension was re-delegated to The Ministry of Post and Telecommunications in April 2009. The re-launch will begin on November 1, 2010 and will include:
• .SO – General Purpose
• .COM.SO – Commercial Entities
• .NET.SO – Network Operators
• .ORG.SO – Not-for-Profit Organizations
The registry plans to launch .SO in three phases:
• Sunrise (November 1-30, 2010): This …
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 …
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 …