Tom Scopazzi of Artemis which has an application for .Secure, just sent out an email today announcing that effective today, Jean-Christophe Vignes has joined Artemis as Director of Domain Operations! "In this capacity, he will be in charge of building our Registry and Registrar capabilities for .secure and we look forward to leveraging his expertise throughout the ICANN world. " "As you … [Read more...]
Radix, TLDH & Westerdal Asks ICANN To Suspend All Pending Expert Panels In New gTLD Process
Three large applicants to the new gTLD program sent a letter to ICANN yesterday to complaint about the Experts appointed by The Dispute Resolution Service Providers relating to the Community Objection process especially those at the ICC and asked ICANN to "ask all contracted arbitrators to temporarily suspend their decision making until ICANN can conduct a basic level of training for the actual … [Read more...]
Phil Corwin Of ICA Appointed To Internet Committee of the International Trademark Association (INTA)
Phil Corwin of the Internet Commerce Association (ICA) has been appointed to the serve on the Internet Committee of the International Trademark Association (INTA) for a two-year term commencing in January 2014 International Trademark Association (INTA) is the largest group of its kind. Mr. Corwin stated: "This will allow me to bring the perspective of domain registrants and others into … [Read more...]
Microsoft, Verisign & Yahoo! Sends Joint Letter To ICANN: We Want An Update On Name Collision Mitigation Plan
In a joint letter Microsoft, Verisign and Yahoo! urged ICANN to study the Collission Mitigation Plan before allowing any "The undersigned companies and organizations submit this letter to express our significant concern regarding several unresolved stability and security issues associated with the upcoming delegation of new gTLDs." "We understand that the New gTLD Applicant Group (NTAG) … [Read more...]
FileSense, Inc. Loses 2nd UDRP This Year On The Domain FileSense.com
FileSense, Inc. represented by Ronnie Allen Sheppick of Utah just lost its 2nd UDRP this year on the domain name FileSense.com. Back in March 2013, we covered this same company's attempted to grab this same domain name away from the same domain owner. The domain name owner has now defended two UDRP on the same domain per se, (without the representation of an attorney) so he didn't have to incur … [Read more...]
DomCollect AG Loses UDRP On 18 Facebook Typo Domain Names
DomCollect AG just lost a UDRP of a bunch of Facebook typo domain names that they didn't even bother to respond to. DomCollect according to at least one report is owned or is a subsidiary of United Internet the same company that owns Sedo.com and 1and1.com Here are the domain … [Read more...]
Are These The Worst 7 Domains Someone Has Filed a UDRP On?
The luxury Jeweler Van Cleef & Arpels filed a UDRP on 7 of the worst domain names you will ever see. Obviously there must be something going on well beyond the domain names themselves, but on a domain name basis all of these are brutal. This maybe the best case for owning a registry, as all sort of ridiculous domains are registered everyday and at the end of the day the registry … [Read more...]