Abstract: The emergence of a new international regime that is being organized around ICANN is traced; the regime has developed in response to the commercialization of the Internet and to…
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Monthly Archives: October 2010
The ICANN Ombudsman Frank Fowlie has announced he will be leaving his position on or before 31 January 2011 while a successor to Fowlie has begun immediately.
Registrants will be able to register .DE domain names that include the “ß” character, DENIC have announced. A sunrise period will commence on 26 October 2010 at 15:00 CEST that…
Almost half of trademark-conscious companies are considering a “.brand” top-level domain, according to a survey carried out by World Trademark Review magazine reports Domain Incite.
The Australian government has voiced its objections to ICM Registry’s proposal to create a .XXX TLD, saying that “ICANN has an obligation to act in the interests of the wider…
The shill bidding case involving former SnapNames Vice President Nelson Brady, aka “Halvarez”, bid up the prices for domain names with false bids has come to a conclusion. The class…
In Kremen v. Cohen the Ninth Circuit recognized a property right in domain names, defining property as any form of intangible benefit that is distinct and excludable. This reasoning is…
The Sunrise Period for .SO, the ccTLD for the Republic of Somalia, will commence on 1 November and continue until the end of the month. The Somalian government decided to…
We are nearing the one-year anniversary date (16 November 2010) of the launch of the IDN ccTLD Fast Track Process. The Final Implementation Plan for the Fast Track Process requires…
The New gTLD Budget is a critical component of the program and has been recently updated following public comment and additional analysis. Taking that into account, the Board approved the…
The Italian ccTLD, .IT, has passed the two million active registrations mark this week with there being 2,001,192 registrations as of today.
This week it was announced that the domain name sex.com, that has had a rather troubled past was, sold for $13 million to a Caribbean company based in the offshore…
The depletion of IPv4 addresses continues on its critical path with there now being only five per cent of the addresses remaining to be allocated, with the pool still set…
Jordan has become the most recent nation or territory to launch an internationalised top-level domain (IDN) as part of ICANNs IDN FastTrack process. The nation’s Information Technology Centre (NITC) has…
The Twitterverse is awash with catchy URL shortening services, which allow what would otherwise be long URLs to fit within the strict character limit of individual Tweets. Before the Twitter…