Last nights news that a International Centre for Dispute Resolution (ICDR) panelist ruled (pdf) that .cam and .com are too confusingly similar to coexist after two different panels ruled days earlier that the strings were not similar confusing, shouldn't be a huge surprise to anyone in the domain space. After all anyone that follows UDRP's on a regular basis knows there is little consistency … [Read more...]
According To Alexa There Is No Traffic Leakage From Beat.La To BeatLa.com
For those that think that branding a site on any non-.com is going to automatically lead to traffic bleed over to the matching .com I present the case of Beat.La. The domain name was purchased just a couple of weeks ago by the Phoenix Suns on Sedo for $5,300 The purchase of the domain and subsequent launched received a lot of publicity from the mainstream media and sports from the … [Read more...]
Donuts Beats Back Academy Sports Legal Rights Objection To new gTLD .Academy
Academy, LTD., d/b/a Academy Sports + Outdoors lost is Legal Rights Objection filed against Half Oaks, LLC (a Donuts compny) application for the new gTLD .Academy finding that "the common generic use of the term “academy”, as well as the lack of clear evidence showing widespread public recognition of the Objector’s ACADEMY marks, standing alone, weigh heavily in the Applicant’s favor. In this … [Read more...]
Biotechnology Industry Organization Loses WIPO Legal Rights Objection On New gTLD .Bio
Biotechnology Industry Organization of Washington, lost its Legal Rights Objection filed against Starting Dot applied for new gTLD .bio. Here are the relevance findings by the one member WIPO panel: A fundamental issue in this proceeding is the appropriate recognition of the word “bio” by different sectors of the public, founded on differences in the basic meaning of the word, and on … [Read more...]
Blue Cross Loses Legal Rights Objection To Block the New gTLD .Blue
Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association just lost a Legal Rights Objection to Afilias Limited new gTLD application for .Blue Here are the relevant findings by the three member WIPO panel: ""The Applicant has not denied that it was aware of the Objector when it lodged the Application. However, on the evidence which has been produced, the Panel has no reason to doubt the Applicant’s assertion … [Read more...]
So Now What Will Google Do With Its New gTLD Application For .Search
Of the over new gTLD 1,900 applications received by ICANN, Google's application for .Search has gotten arguably the most attention of the mainstream media (neck and neck with Amazon's .Amazon TLD) Google originally filed its application for .Search to operate on a closed basis, meaning that the registry generally would not be open to registrations by third parties, but amended its application … [Read more...]
NY Times Covers New gTLD’s: “Like Derivatives on Wall Street, They Have No Value”
The New Tork Times just covered the coming new gTLD's and quotes a number of sources which give some juicy quotes like the one in the title which came from Esther Dyson Some of the new gTLD's getting a mention in the article were: .bible, .blog, .family, .game, .gay and .pizza. The article quotes Akram Atallah, from ICANN who says: “With .com and .net, if you wanted a nice name, it’s … [Read more...]