There is going to be a house hearing tomorrow on the US giving up its oversight control over ICANN. The hearing is being held by the Energy & Commerce Committee of the…
.NYC Go Live Scheduled for October 8th, 2014
The launch policies for .NYC domain registry were just published by ICANN and they are lengthy. The “Plan has been developed to describe the Launch Program for the .nyc Top Level Domain…
Quick Poll: Which New gTLD Will Be The 1st To Hit 100K Registrations?
As of today there are over 414,000 new gTLD domain names registered. .Guru is still leading the pack with over 47,000 registrations and is growing at the rate of 75-100 domains a…
More Trademark Clearing House Abuse: Texas & Venture Triggers Notice
A couple of weeks ago we wrote about Trademark holders of generic terms applying to the Trademark Clearing House (TMCH) where trademarks on many of which were causing some of those 500,000…
So Far Only Three Major 4 Year Colleges Have Registered a .Education Domain
The new gTLD .Education opens up for live registrations on April 2nd but of course had a Sunrise period early for trademark holders and its in the final day of the Early…
.Berlin Dirk Krischenowski Blasts ICANN Over TMCH Which Has “Largely Failed”
Internetworld.de, interviewed Dirk Krischenowski of .Berlin who blasted ICANN and the performance of the Trademark Clearing House (TMCH) The article was published in German and we used Google translate. Dirk chatted with…
The .CLUB LAND RUSH Starts Tomorrow April 1st: Join The Landrush.CLUB
According to a press release this morning by .CLUB, “like the United States Land Rush of 1889 that changed the landscape of America and the lives of million of people, a new…