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Posted February 6th, 2012
This from Nick Wood, friend and partner at Com Laude:
1. Go HERE for FAQ on “Legal Rights Objections under ICANN’s New gTLD Program — Filing a Legal Rights Objection at WIPO: What You Need To Know”
2. Go HERE for a WIPO Center-produced summary of “Trademark Rights Protection Mechanisms for New gTLDs”.
3. Go HERE for an updated page (a policy snapshot) on “WIPO Observations on New gTLD Dispute Resolution Mechanisms”.
Posted in Domain Names, Enforcement, gTLDS, WIPO by Ken Taylor
Posted February 5th, 2012
Marksmen CEO, Ken Taylor, joined domain name valuation experts on the Thursday morning presentation at DOMAINfest 2012 in Santa Monica, CA.
Ken joined moderator Lisa Box (Oversee.net), Paul Nicks (Go Daddy) and Liesbeth Mac-de Boer (Sedo) in providing advice on setting domain prices, as well as buying and selling strategies.
The group was followed by keynote speaker Biz Stone, Twitter Co-Founder.
See more at Domain Name Journal
Posted in Conferences, Domain Names, Domain Sales and Auctions, Events by Ken Taylor
Posted January 18th, 2012
From domainnews
There are now more than 900,000 active .РФ domain names,according to statistics on the Coordination Center for TLD RU,the .RU registry website . As of today there are 902,531 .РФ domain names registered and the number is increasingly rapidly .
A year and a half ago,on May 12,2010,the Coordination Center for TLD .RU became the administrator of the new cyrilic domain name .РФ . On November 11,2010 domain names registration in domain .РФ became accessible for all comers.
For the full story go HERE.
Posted in CCTLD's, Domain Names, IDNs by Ken Taylor
Posted January 4th, 2012
From CBS/AP
In a preemptive strike against a potential disaster, universities across the country are buying .xxx domains that might hurt their reputation.
University of Kansas is securing KUgirls.xxx and KUnurses.xxx before the porn industry can buy the site and cash in on the college’s name. Those aren’t the only URLs that were purchased. Spending a total of $3,000, the university also snatched up kansas.xxx, rockchalkjayhawk.xxx and jayhawks.xxx, among others.
“Down the road there’s no way we can predict what some unscrupulous entrepreneur might come up with,” said Paul Vander Tuig, trademark licensing director at the Lawrence, Kan., school.
Indiana University coughed up $2,200 to buy sites like hoosiers.xxx. University of Missouri, Washington University, Purdue University and Ball State University have also purchased domains.
Corporations had a chance to grab web addresses months ago. Brands like Target, Nike and Pepsi have all paid to protect their brands.
For the full story go HERE.
Posted in Domain Names, gTLDS, Intellectual Property by Ken Taylor
Posted November 6th, 2011
As reported by DomainNameWire.com: “Here’s an interesting court decision handed down by the Court of Appeal in California.
Robert Edward Forchion, Jr., a self proclaimed “dedicated marijuana lover”, wanted to change his statutory name to NJWeedman.com. He has gone by the name NJWeedman for a while and operates a web site at NJWeedman.com.
The appeal court affirmed that Forchion can’t change his name to NJWeedman.com.”
Click HERE to read more.
Tags: NJWeedman.com
Posted in Domain Names, Oh No by Kelly Hardy
