Dot Health Limited which is a Famous Four’s application to operate the new .Health top-level domain (gTLD), today announced the creation of a Governance Council that will allow the world health community to provide input on the .Health TLD. The Governance Council will be called upon to monitor, advise, and recommend best practices [...] Continue reading →

Beginning May 2013, the Singapore domain registry will require verification of domain name owners. This comes as a result of previous cases of identity theft and fake identities being used when registering .SG domain names. The new procedure will apply for both second level .SG domains and third level .COM.SG names. .SG domains are semi-restricted. [...] Continue reading →

In a letter sent by  FairSearch.org (FairSearch) to ICANN they urge ICANN to reject the new gTLD application for .Search filed by Google even after Google changes their application to make it an opened extension. “I write to apprise ICANN that Google’s recent attempt to amend its .search Generic Top-Level Domain (gTLD) application is an [...] Continue reading →

According to a blog post on adgooroo.com, in the first four months of 2013. “Paid search spend in the Travel category on U.S. AdWords is down in 2013. At $238 million for the months of January through April, it’s actually down 19% from 2012’s $295 million during the same period, which was down 17% from [...] Continue reading →

a Total of 91 new gTLD applications passed ICANN Initial Evaluation (IE)  including 8 applications which were previously passed over. This is the most new gTLD applications to pass IE in a single week and ICANN is now processing 100 new gTLD applications up from 50 per week as they promised would happen in June. [...] Continue reading →

According to Bloomberg.com, Google is facing a new Antitrust Probe Over Display Ads by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission According to the story the FCC is looking into “into whether the company is using its leadership in the online display-advertising market to illegally curb competition” The story goes on to say that the investigation is [...] Continue reading →

John Berryhill, Esq, PHD says that the UDRP panel in the Ron Paul Domain name case got its right. The decision has garnered a lot of Strong opinions, but Mr. Berryhill who has won more reverse domain name hijacking cases representing domain holders says the panel got it right and says that the UDRP panel [...] Continue reading →