All the rights to the new DotAfrica gTLD including the registry databases, rightfully belongs to ICANN and the African Union and UniForum cannot act outside these specifications that have been legally codified and approved. PRLog (Press Release) – Mar. 25, 2013 – The 11th Innovation Africa Digital Summit (http://www.extensia-ltd.com/documents/innovation-africa-digital-summit-2013-programme/10581) with the theme: “National Broadband Strategies …
“If ICANN were to delegate the gTLD to DCA despite the AUC’s endorsement of UniForum, it is likely that the AUC would lose faith in ICANN and its structures.” The statement above that is part of Uniforum’s reply to the Independent Objector is reminiscent of the bureaucracy that is magnificent in the existing structures that …
Net address regulator ICANN has launched a database to allow businesses to register their brands, ahead of the release of a raft of new domain names. It is hoped the Trade Mark Clearing House (TMCH) will mitigate concerns about cyber-squatting and trademark infringement. Nearly 2,000 new suffixes, known as generic top-level domains (gTLD), will be …
The Trademark Clearinghouse (TMCH), designed to protect trademarks in new generic Top Level Domains, launched today (26 March). The TMCH has been developed to be a global repository for trademark data to protect trademarks. As of the launch, rights holders will be able to submit trademark data for verification. The TMCH will enable companies and …
WASHINGTON — U.S. Attorney Carmen Ortiz, under fire over her office’s aggressive prosecution of Internet activist Aaron Swartz, was admonished by a federal appeals court in 2004 for advocating a harsher jail term for a defendant than she had promised him in a plea-bargain agreement, according to a court document. Ortiz, a potential candidate for …
“For these reasons the IO, who is primarily acting as a “safety net”, does not in principle intend to file an objection on the community ground” The Independent objector has released his findings about the new gTLD ICANN applications, among the casualties of the objections are 24 objections against new applied-for gTLDs before the International Chamber of …
It’s obvious that social media and the mobile revolution are disrupting the shopping experience as we know it. At this point, most people rely on these digital tools to give them additional info about the products and services they’re thinking of buying. Consumers are simply more knowledgeable about what they are thinking of buying because …
It\’s obvious that social media and the mobile revolution are disrupting the shopping experience as we know it. At this point, most people rely on these digital tools to give them additional info about the products and services they\’re thinking of buying. Consumers are simply more knowledgeable about what they are thinking of buying because …
Early Saturday morning, the Senate adopted its first concurrent budget resolution in four years. Democrats cleverly made sure to hand out enough hall passes to vulnerable red state senators so they could vote against the $1 trillion tax increase, while ensuring that it ultimately passed 50-49. Senators Baucus, Begich, Hagan, and Pryor were given the …
Launch to provide Arabic-speaking world with a unique corner of the internet Dubai: Arabic businesses and internet users are set for a paradigm shift in their online behaviour as Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), the global regulator of web addresses, has officially approved شبكة. (.shabaka in Arabic – translates to .web in …
