Well another interesting day in UDRP world were there are two separate UDRP action both brought by Bloomberg Finance L.P. owner of Bloomberg.com, against another company  named Bloomberg which is located in India. The 1st UDRP was on the domain bloombergworldwide.com. In that case the one man panel found that both parties had trademark claims [...] Continue reading →

CloudNames applies for a second new gTLD: .CLOUD ".cloud will have a wide appeal. It could help identify companies and organizations that provide services in the “cloud”. Likewise, .cloud could be... Visit the LinkedIn group: "new generic Top-Level Domains" and its +750 members today. [...] Continue reading →

As found on CloudNames' web site, "the purpose of .global is for organisations aiming for or commanding an existing global presence. Furthermore, .global is ideal for any business that was... Visit the LinkedIn group: "new generic Top-Level Domains" and its +750 members today. [...] Continue reading →

Web.com (WWWW) which owns Register.com and NetworkSolutions.com announced last night that they applied for the new gTLD .Web. Web.com is taking “pre-reservations” for .Web domain names. Here is some text from the signup page: “The introduction of .WEB™ extensions may be the biggest thing that has happened to domain names since .COM.” “” .WEB™ [...] Continue reading →

Irish registrar Blacknight Solutions has been approved as a .co registrar, according to the company. It’s one of the ongoing second wave of .co registrars following the initial 10 used by .CO Internet at launch. Judging by .CO’s web site, Blacknight will be the 18th registrar to get approval to sell directly (13th if you [...] Continue reading →

Now the new gTLD application window has closed let’s look at what happens next in the new gTLD Program according to ICANN: “The time frames below are subject to change.” “13 June: “Reveal Day” “ICANN will publicly post all TLD character strings that have been applied for, and who applied for them. This event triggers [...] Continue reading →

Theo Hnarakis, CEO of top-ten registrar Melbourne IT, has asked ICANN to delay its imminent “digital archery” gTLD application batching system until a better solution can be found. Talking to DI today, Hnarakis said he’s worried that digital archery currently favors applicants for desirable generic strings such as .web at the expense of uncontested dot-brands. [...] Continue reading →