The risk of someone trespassing on your company’s trademarks in cyberspace is about to get worse, with the pending introduction of more than 1,000 new addresses for registration of domain names. Read More
ICANN’s new CEO Fadi Chehade has embarked on a bold restructure of the organization’s management on his first day in the job. Announcing two new senior management members – Sally Costerton as head of stakeholder relations and communications and Tarek Kamel as head of governmental affairs Read More
Simple and great names will rule the world. Complicated, hard to spell or multiple part names will impose difficulties. Examples like, dot Saskatchewan, dot Albuquerque, dot Sault Ste Marie, dot Ypsilanti or dot Lake Winnibigoshish type names will have far less appeal. Read More
Since the late 2010 there has been different aspersions cast on DotAfrica a domain that has got to be one of the most interesting domains ever applied for in the ICANN new gTLD series, I personally think it’s one of my most watched domains. From its origins, it has been a duel between two groups …
With user affordability in mind, DCA Trust proposed the sum of US$10.00 as the registration cost per standard domain name in the new .Africa gTLD extension. …Whilst DCA Trust evidently based its domain name pricing criteria on affordability, UniForum on the other hand could be almost accused of inexcusable profiteering based on its exorbitant US$18.00 …
ICANN announced overnight, how will evaluate the requested changes in new gTLD’s applications. ICANN will consider the 7 criteria below and inform the applicant whether the changes are approved or denied. As usually all seems to be left to the evaluators to decide. Read More
ICANN recently posted the process and criteria for evaluating new gTLD application change requests. Change requests are being evaluated and approved changes will be posted. The application change request submission process and criteria for evaluating them is below.Read More
An arbitrator with the National Arbitration Forum has awarded 25 Google-related domain names to Google,after the company submitted a complaint,asserting legal rights over the disputed domain names . Read More
Nearly one month after ICANN announced that three of the new gTLD applications had been withdrawn (and on the eve of a webinar on the “Application Evaluation Progress”), They are: .and, .are, .est and .ksb. Read More
Family First New Zealand – a political party that recently collected up to 50,000 signatures against marriage equality – forgot to renew their domain name. Instead, it was snapped up by a pro-Marriage Equality movement.Read More