In a three page Article the Washington Post on the day it was purchased, chats about domain names and the new gTLD's asking whether .com's go by the way of horse and buggy, well actually "the party line" (which many of the readers never heard of) “It’s funny, thinking about dot-com,” says Ben Zimmer. Zimmer is a linguist — he’s the executive producer of vocabulary.com — and he thinks a lot … [Read more...]
ICANN Publishes Dotless Domain Name Security and Stability Study Report & Recommends More Studies
ICANN released the Dotless Domain Name Security and Stability Study Report (pdf) tonight which was prepared by Carve Systems. Dotless Domains are a big topic of conversation ever since Google announced it wanted to operate the new gTLD .search as a "Dotless Domain" The bottom line of the report is that technically Dotless domains are possible, but there are some issues which require … [Read more...]
First .Now Legal Rights Objection Rejected By WIPO
Another day another losing Legal Rights Objection (LRO) but the first case to be decided on the new gTLD .Now The Objector/Complainant Starbucks (HK) Limited of Hong Kong, China, lost the first of five objections it filed against all other applicants for .Now This case involved the applicant One.com A/S of Copenhagen, Denmark "In the Panel’s view “existing legal rights” means rights that … [Read more...]
Boston Globe Is Sold Including Boston.com & New gTLD .Boston For 70 Million To Owner of Red Sox
Boston Red Sox principal owner John Henry is going to buy The Boston Globe. The Boston Globe also owns and operates Boston.com and is the sole applicant for the new gTLD .Boston for $70 million in cash. The seller is the Times Co. which operates the New York Times. The Times Co. is taking a huge beating on the transaction as it purchased the Globe for $1.1 billion it paid for the paper in … [Read more...]
92 New gTLD’s Pass IE: .Quebec; .Honda; ,Android; .Staples; .Gap; .AARP; .Porn
92 more new gTLD's passed ICANN Initial Evaluation (IE) today. Highlighting the results today are the Geographic applications for .Quebec; and .Scot Leading .Brands applications passing today were the applications for .Android; .Honda; .Staples; .Gap; .AARP; .GMO; and .Ram Some generic string passing today included .Organic; .BlackFriday; and .Porn With today's results ICANN has gone … [Read more...]
WIPO Panel Rejects Legal Rights Objection To Google’s .Tube Application
Latin American Telecom, LLC of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, represented by ESQwirecom has become the latest Objector to lose a Legal rights Objection. Latin American Telecom objected to Google's application for .Tube C. The Merits With respect to the applicable standards, Article 20(a) of the Procedure gives the Panel initial guidance: “(a) For each category of Objection identified in … [Read more...]
Merck & Co Legal Rights Objections Dismissed By WIPO
In two more WIPO decision out today Merck & Co., Inc. objection to the applications of Merck KGaA to .Merck and .eMerck were thrown out. Those filing Legal Rights Objections have now lost all 27 decisions that have been issued by WIPO However these case varied from many of the previous cases which dealt with front running trademark application. In these case the objector is the global … [Read more...]