In an apparent attempt to grab a market share with the new gTLD s coming out, "AnyExtension.com launched today according to a press release that promissing the users can "submit any domain name and extension that one wishes and that too for free." "With the help of this service, one can use domain names like www.power.boat, www.used.machines, www.paris.france or www.amy.smith." "The project … [Read more...]
ICANN: Implementing the New gTLD Collision Occurrence Management Plan
On 7 October 2013 the ICANN Board's New gTLD Program Committee approved resolutions directing staff to implement the New gTLD Collision Occurrence Management Plan ("The Plan") Tonight ICANN released details on how it will be implementing the New gTLD Collision Occurrence Management Plan. For those Registries that have already signed a Registry Agreement the contract have been notified that … [Read more...]
OMG: .XYZ Hits Top 5 Pre-Registered New gTLD’s at 1and1.com
Tonight 1and1.com top 5 new gTLD pre-reservation list changed and amazingly .XYZ is now sitting at number 5 with over 45,000 pre-reservations. The top five are now pre-reserved domain names in the new gTLD's are: .Web .Online .Shop .App .XYZ Total number of … [Read more...]
CADNA Calls On Congress To Increase Cybersquatting Penalties Under The ACPA & Include Registrars/Registries
The Coalition Against Domain Name Abuse (CADNA) posted a story on its site, written by Warren Communications News, Inc., which quotes Josh Bourne Director of CADNA: "The problem of cybersquatting is going to "explode by at least 2,500 percent when new gTLDs go live" "CADNA will start a letter-writing campaign and continue to seek a sponsor for a revision to 1999's Anticybersquatting … [Read more...]
BGC Rejects Reconsideration Requests: 2 Panels Can Come To Different Decisions on Same Strings: Even The BGC
The Board Governance Committee (BGC) of ICANN rejected two request for reconsideration (“Request”) over two decisions by the International Centre for Dispute Resolution (“ICDR”) One request was brought by Amazon over the decision sustaining Commercial Connect LLC’s (“Commercial Connect”) objection to Amazon’s new gTLD application for the Japanese translation of “online shopping” (“Amazon’s … [Read more...]
Inc. Asks Do You Really Need A .Com
In a post tonight Inc.com asks Do you Really Need A .Com? "If you've started a business any time in the last 15 to 20 years, you've probably struggled with the same issue. There's the-name-you-wish-you-could-have.com but you can't have it because someone else already does. There's … [Read more...]
Uniregistry Beats Back Google’s Objection To .Cars: Different Decisions On The Same String Is ICANN’s Problem
Uniregistry, Corp just beat back an objection from Google's Charleston Road Registry (CRR) Inc. on the new gTLD .cars in a decision handed down by the International Centre for Dispute Resolution ("ICDR") CRR objected to Unregistry application for .cars as on the basis of String Confusion to its own application for .car and wanted the two applications to be placed into the same contention set … [Read more...]