AS reported by Milathan Post Registries wanting to sell their wares to Chinese registrants are once again facing a tightening of the country’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT)’s regulations. A few days ago, on July 6, the Ministry published a notice excluding registries that do not hold a license from MIIT from operating …
Company also announces Android availability of The New Internet, the first-ever secure gateway to the Internet AUSTIN, TX – Authenticated Reality (www.TheNewInternet.com), creator of The New Internet®, a secure gateway to the internet where all users are authenticated and identified, today announced the launch of its domain registry as well as open beta availability of …
DCA Trust is contesting a .Africa Court decision that was made over the Christmas holiday that went contrary to a previous tentative ruling. “DCA believes that all of the reasons that the Court was inclined to grant the PI still stand”. The Thursday December 22, 2016, 7 page tentative ruling [PDF] issued by the Los …
In a press release on 13th April, 2016, DCA Trust has won a preliminary injunction that also comes after the company also won a Temporary Restraining Order (TRO) on 4th March 2016, ordering ICANN not to delegate .Africa until a lawsuit by DotConnectAfrica is resolved in its entirety. Below is the press release …
The start of the new year is appropriate for a performance review, so David Taylor, partner at law firm Hogan Lovells, assesses the popularity of the new gTLD sunrise periods and the progress of the UDRP and URS. January 2015 saw the total number of domain name registrations across nearly 500 new generic top-level domains …
ICANN announces that the Generation Panel for the Chinese Script Root Zone Label Generation Rules (LGR) has been seated. Following the Call for Generation Panels to Develop Root Zone Label Generation Rules published on 11 July 2013, the Chinese script community has developed and submitted to ICANN, on 27 August 2014, the Proposal for the …
Noted American Wine Regions Join Forces to Protest ICANN’s Release of .wine and .vin Domain Names Nearly 2,000 American wineries decry misappropriation of hard-fought regional name recognition Seven noted American wine regions have banded together in opposition to the rights-to-the-highest-bidder release of generic top level domain names (gTLDs) such as .wine and .vin by the …
As we move toward the IANA transition, many observers are concerned about the relationship between an autonomous ICANN and Internet freedom. One proposal even went so far as to propose to replace NTIA oversight with an “Internet Freedom Panel” that could veto any ICANN decisions that threaten Internet freedom. That proposal is unworkable because of …
SLAM Strategy, released its report titled “DotBrand Social Media Report” and analysed the social media presence of 517 trademarks that applied for a dot brand top level domain name with International Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) or ICANN gTLDs. Glenelg, Australia, June 16, 2014 –(PR.com)– Adelaide’s leading Internet strategy company, SLAM Strategy, released …
Advertisers: That’s exactly what we said when you started this By Katy Bachman Try to follow this. Icann, the international organization that has begun to roll out hundreds of new generic top level domains over the objections of brands worried about domain abuse, is now warning brands that they are at risk of domain abuse. …