ICANN is currently being sued in Los Angeles court for running a sham process in order to award the .africa domain to its preferred bidder and was recently served with an injunction to prevent it from handing over control of that extension despite the legal case. –Kieren McCarthy on theRegister The efforts by the Republican …
In the first round of testing on new gTLDs and SEO rankings back in 2014, Globe Runner, ran Google AdWords campaigns and sent traffic to a keyword rich domain .com domain name and, at the same time, sent clicks to a keyword rich .DIAMONDS domain name. They used 3caratDiamonds.com and 3Carat.Diamonds, and used the exact …
In Opposition to ZACR’s motion to dismiss, which was filed on 10th May 2016, DCA Lawyers argue that contrary to what ZACR states, DCA has adequately stated claims against ZACR for declaratory relief, intentional interference with contract, aiding and abetting fraud, and unfair competition, and argued their reasons that the Court should deny ZACR’s …
A Huge Win for Legal Front-Runner DotConnectAfrica Trust! . April 20, 2016, ICANN has withdrawn its Motion to Dismiss [PDF] against DCA Trust’s First Amended Complaint of 26 February 2016. . In its stipulation to the Court, ICANN moved to withdraw its dismissal citing the following reason: . “in view of the Court’s order on …
At least 42,000 Irish e-mails with “.ie” domains are included in a massive data breach that has seen both logins and passwords traded amongst criminals in Russia. The accounts are part of an enormous hack that includes the credentials of 272.3 million email accounts across the world. The breach was uncovered by …
Symantec, a computer security, antivirus, backup and SSL provider, wrote an article about the effect that new generic top-level domains (gTLDs) will have on SSL certificates. There are already many new gTLDs that have been released by ICANN and there will be potentially over a thousand new gTLDs available in the next couple of …
It was a rough week for arrogant and unaccountable ICANN. A U.S. District Court Judge, The Honorable R. Gary Klausner, in Los Angeles, actually held the California corporation accountable, a rare event, to which most stakeholders can attest, sweeping aside every one of the arguments interposed by Jones Day, ICANN’s lawyers, and granted a preliminary injunction “barring …
By Joseph Wright for BNA The article was first published by The Bureau of National Affairs, but has been reproduced from DotConnectAfrica Blog. Reproduced with permission from Electronic Commerce & Law Report, 21 ECLR 441 (March 30, 2016). Copyright 2016 by The Bureau of National Affairs, Inc (800-372-1033)). An applicant for the .africa top-level Internet …
According to the latest report from The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), trademark owners filed 2,754 cases under the Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP) with the agency in 2015 — an increase of 4.6 % over the previous year. The cybersquatting disputes related to new gTLDs accounted for 10.5% of UDRP caseload in …
Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) Board Chair Dr. Stephen D. Crocker today submitted to the U.S. Government a plan developed by the international Internet community that, if approved, will lead to global stewardship of some key technical Internet functions. The news was confirmed at a press conference finalizing the ICANN 55 meetings …