According to Mercopress.com, Bhe President of Brazil, Dilma Rousseff announced today that Brazil will host a global summit on Internet governance in April 2014 The announcement was made after conferring the CEO of ICANN Fadi Chehade. "We have decided that Brazil will host in April 2014 an international summit of governments, industry, civil society and academia” to discuss Brazil's … [Read more...]
Internet Advertising Blows Past $20 Billion In 1st Half Of 2013; Up 18%; Check Out This Crazy Chart Starting From 1996
According to the Interactive Advertising Bureau, Internet advertising revenue surged past $20 billion for an all time record in the first half of this year. Leading the way was an "explosion in mobile ads shown by companies including Facebook and Google". Online ad revenue of $20.1 billion in the first half represents an increase of 18% over last year’s first-half ad revenues of $17 … [Read more...]
In A UDRP With Wide Implications In New gTLD’s Domains, Panel Awards Tes.co to Tesco
In a very interesting case having implication for the new gTLD's domain names, Tesco Stores Limited of Cheshunt, Hertfordshire, UK was just awarded the domain name Tes.co on the basis of having a trademark on the term Tesco. The panel combined the left and right of the dot in the domain name to come to the conclusion that the trademark owner of Tesco was entitled to the domain. Tesco owns … [Read more...]
Verisign: Over 150 Domains Registered Over Government ShutDown
Verisign the registry for the .com and .net registry just released a graph showing a lot of activity with people registering domain names involving the Government Shutdown. It appears from the graph there have been over 150 domain names registered since October 1st containing the word :"shutdown" We also wrote a post about the domain name GovernmentShutdown.com on October 1st, so we are going … [Read more...]
Scott Day Gets Hit With UDRP On 16 Year Old GoldCoast.com By Owners Of VisitGoldCoast.com
Gold Coast Tourism Corporation Ltd just filed a UDRP against legendary domain investor Scott Day and his company Digimedia on the domain name GoldCoast.com This is certainly a UDRP that will be put up on the HallofShame.com watch list. It appears the Mr. Day has owned this domain since 1997 or 16 years. Gold Coast is a common Geographical term referring to all these areas according to … [Read more...]
Key Systems Publishes Graph Showing Time Line For Each New gTLD Roll Out
Key-Systems GmbH which operates domain name registrars, domaindiscount24.com, rrpproxy.net, and brand protection company, BrandShelter.com released a graph today on new the date that each new gTLD is expected to launch. Of course with each new gTLD there will be a Sunrise period for Trademark holders followed in most cases by a Land Rush period then the Go Live date where domain names can be … [Read more...]
Dot Latin, LLC Lays Out Its Plans For .Uno
Dot Latin LLC which announced on Wednesday, September 11, that it had formally entered into an agreement with ICANN to operate the .UNO, the new generic top-level domain (gTLD) .Uno today issued a press release to lay out its plans for the extension. “.UNO will be the first new gTLD to launch that will globally connect and unite Hispanic and Latino communities, businesses, individuals and … [Read more...]