Domain and Trademark Blog

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) is expected to unveil its extended range of top level domain names soon.
ICANN will allow for a huge range of top level domain names — including new suffixes that include brand names — to be run by third parties, potentially paving the way for a more …

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 …

Please be aware of the following Domain Name updates that may affect your organization:
.XXX domain extension approved
ICANN has approved the domain extension .XXX, which is designed for the adult entertainment industry. The Registry for .XXX expects to ‘go live’ in early 2011; however they have started to take pre-reservations from companies in the adult industry.
The …

ccTLD Updates and Reminders
Colombia (.CO)
CSC Clients are reminded of the following deadlines for the 2nd level launch of .CO:

The Global Trademark Sunrise Phase (Sunrise B) will end on June 10, 2010.  All orders for this phase should be submitted to CSC by 2pm …

To enable more global participation on the Web, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) and technical community, along with country-code (ccTLD) and generic Top-Level Domain (gTLD) registries, have spent the last several years completing policy and technical implementation work to allow non-English speaking registrants to obtain domain name registrations in non-Latin …