The Government of China said today that the US must hand over control of the Internet to the world. The Government's position was made in today daily newspaper, The People's Daily which "provides direct information on the policies and viewpoints of the Communist Party of China (CPC)". Here is the full story of what China had to say: ""The Internet has become one of the most important … [Read more...]
Orgainzation That Run Thailand’s ccTLD (.Th) Objects To new the gTLD .Thai
Thai Network Information Center Foundation the organization which runs the ccTLD of .Th on behalf of the government of Thailand just filed an objection with ICANN to the new gTLD application of Better Living Management Company Limited (BLM) to operate .Thai. "The Thai Network Information Center Foundation (THNIC), the .th Domain Administration, would like to express our concern regarding the … [Read more...]
WSJ: Banks Looking To New gTLD’s To Stop Phishing
The WallStretJournal published a story on how banks are looking to using their applied for new gTLD's to cut down on phishing of bank sites on the net. "Financial-services companies are snatching up new, exclusive Internet addresses in an effort to crack down on cybercrime, which one analyst said cost the industry an estimated $2.5 billion last year." "The companies buying up addresses … [Read more...]
Objection To .Earth: We Already Own It & ICANN Awarding It To Any Applicant “Would be Larceny”
In interesting objection was just filed with ICANN on the new gTLD .Earth, by John Palmer of American Webmasters, Inc who claims to already own the TLD since 1995 having been granted the TLD by none other than Dr. Jon Postel. "The TLD ".EARTH" is an existing TLD which is the property of American Webmasters, Inc / dba AGN Domain Name Service, Inc, a Delaware Corporation." "We have been … [Read more...]
Court Uses Case Of CFIT Vs. Verisign To Hammer ICM’s & ICANN’s Motion To Dismiss Manwin Claims
A federal court made a ruling in the case involving Manwin, the owner of YouPorn.com, brought against ICM, the operator of the .XXX extension, and ICANN the non-profit organization which gave ICM the contract to operate the .XXX TLD ICM. The ruling involved ICM & ICANN's motion to dismiss the case. Bottom line ICM & ICANN got two of the 2 of the 6 cause of actions thrown out but the … [Read more...]
Citibank: New gTLD .Citi Is Not Confusing to Applications For .City or .CITIC
Citibank today filed two comments with ICANN stating that theie application for .Citi should not be found to be confusing similar to either the 3 applications for .City (although the are pronounced exactly the same) or for the brand application for .CITIC filed by .CITIC Group Corporation. Citibank filed the comment pro-actively as I don't see any objections to .Citi filed by anyone else based … [Read more...]
ICANN’s Just Posted its Webinar it Held Last Week on The New gTLD Program
ICANN just posted its Webinar it held last week on the new gTLD program You can listen to it by clicking here According to ICANN "here is an overview of what was covered during last week’s webinar": "Initial Evaluation Is Underway All applications have now been assigned to the relevant geographic, string similarity, and DNS stability evaluation panels. Of the 1927 applications, 342 … [Read more...]