A few interesting facts coming out of the afternoon ICANN session entitled; "Briefing for GAC on Domain Name Marketplace" Jeff Eckhaus of Demand Media which owns Enom.com, speaking to the Governmental Advisory Council, (GAC) said that Enom has 8,000 resellers itself and he thought that on a volume of registrations, the percentage of domain names registered by resellers was "somewhere between … [Read more...]
Archives for June 2012
Replacement For Digital Archery: How About Carnival Games?
Now that ICANN has suspended the Digital Archery program, to batch applications, the question becomes what other alternatives can ICANN use to batch applications. The issue is that ICANN believes that a random drawing could constituent a lottery in some jurisdictions especially since you have to pay to enter and in this case $185,000. To avoid being called a lottery you can run a game of … [Read more...]
New Study Shows 18% Of Business That Have The Word “Me” In Its Name, Use a .Me Address
Brands-and-Jingles just completed a study that looked at 1,000 companies that use the word "me" as part of their company name and found that at least 174 of the 1,000 are using the .ME extension for its website. The study used Linkedin to find the 1,000 companies "A big surprise was to find no less then 174 companies that use .ME domain name as their brands:" 20Spot.me, About.me, acade.me, … [Read more...]
ICANN: Batching to Be Done in 3 Batches of 5 Months Each Or In One Batch Which Will Take A Year
Out of the ICANN Session this morning on the issue of batching, ICANN is now saying they will either go with 3 batches each taking 5 months or a total of 15 months, or they will go with just one batch which will take 1 year. Of course the issue of batching is now back to square one and the Digital Archery program which was going to determine batching was suspended the other day by … [Read more...]
ICANN: Trademark Clearinghouse To Cost Each Registry $7K-$10K & Will Launch In October 2012
ICANN has laid out for the first time, a timeline for the Trademark Clearing House (TMCH) In a session today ICANN stated the cost to each registry would be between $7,000-$10,000 It seems unclear based on questions from the crowd whether that $7K-$10K fee would be per registry or per TLD. Despite the question being asked, there was no answer. For those applicants which applied for … [Read more...]
ICANN: “URS $300-$500 Price Target For URS May Not Be Met”
In a morning session at the ICANN Conference, in what was called an update to the Uniform Rapid Suspension (URS) system "implementation work indicates that the $300-$500 cost target any not be met." To remind you the URS is suppose to be a quicker faster and cheaper version of the UDRP of "clear cut cases of abuse" a repaid take down of sites. "How can we refashion the URS to get closer to … [Read more...]
Another Lawsuit Against Google Over Selling Trademark Adwords Filed By Cybersitter
According to MediaPost.com, another company has filed suit against Google for alleged trademark infringement on AdWords by allowing a competitor Net Nanny to by ads for show users who search for "Cybersitter" on Google. Cybersitter, a company that sells software to block adult content "Cybersitter argues that Google's decision to allow the company's name to trigger search ads infringes … [Read more...]