Archive for the ‘Enforcement’ Category
Posted July 28th, 2011
As reported by Kevin Murphy of DomainIncite.com: “ICANN has asked the International Chamber of Commerce to rule that it has the right to terminate Employ Media’s .jobs contract.
It’s filed its response to Employ Media’s demand for arbitration over the disputed Universe.jobs service, which saw the registry vastly expand the .jobs space.
Employ Media “transcended the very intent behind creation of the TLD” with Universe.jobs, which allocated tens of thousands of .jobs domains to the DirectEmployers Association, ICANN said.
The organization wants the ICC to rule that it “may, but is not required to, terminate the Registry Agreement with Employ Media”, as it has already threatened.
Employ Media took ICANN to arbitration in May, after ICANN notified it that it was in breach of its registry agreement and they were not able to settle their differences in private talks.”
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Tags: .jobs, ICANN
Posted in Enforcement, ICANN by Kelly Hardy
Posted July 13th, 2011
As reported by TheDomains.com: “According to a story in Xbiz.com, Hustler has come out swinging against. XXX and anyone who plans to registering or obtaining a .XXX domain name containing one of there trademarks.
In a statement sent to Xbiz.com and AVN.com, Hustler President Michael Klein said:
The ICM registry is “prohibited from registering or selling to a third party any .XXX domain names that contain the famous Hustler trademark or other Hustler-related trademarks.”
Click HERE to read more.
Tags: .xxx, Hustler, ICM Registry
Posted in domaining, Enforcement, gTLDS, trademark issues by Kelly Hardy
Posted July 11th, 2011
As reported by DomainNews.com: “The tightening of registration policies for .CN domain names by CNNIC has seen a rapid decline in the number of phishers using .CN domain names and an increase in the use of other top level domains and services, and in particular the CO.CC sub-domain and .TK country code TLD.
In a report from the Anti Phishing Working Group titled Global Phishing Survey 2H2010: Trends and Domain Name Use, the APWG found that millions of phishing URLs were reported in 2H2010, but the number of unique phishing attacks and domain names used to host them was much smaller.”
Click HERE to read the full story.
Tags: .CN, .co.cc, .TK, phishing
Posted in cybercrime, Enforcement by Kelly Hardy
Posted June 28th, 2011
As reported by David Goldstein: “There are not many organisations in the world that are as vociferous in their control of their trademarks as the International Olympic Committee. With the London Olympics scheduled for 2012, the IOC has issued social media guidelines for participants and other accredited persons.
The guidelines also refer to domain names that include “the word ‘Olympic’ or ‘Olympics’ or any similar words related thereto (or any foreign language equivalents thereof) are not allowed unless approved by the IOC beforehand.”
The IOC gives the example of[myname]olympic.com which would not be permitted while [myname].com/olympic would be allowed, but only during the period of the Olympic Games during which these Guidelines are applicable. The guidelines also note that “participants and other accredited persons may not create stand-alone Olympic-themed websites, application or any other feature to host coverage of the Olympic Games.”
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Tags: IOC, London Olympics 2012, Olympic Games
Posted in Enforcement, Events, Intellectual Property by Kelly Hardy
Posted June 14th, 2011
According to ICANN.com: “The GNSO Post-Expiration Domain Name Recovery (PEDNR) Working Group has submitted its Final Report [PDF, 998 KB] to the Generic Names Supporting Organization (GNSO) Council today, 14 June 2011. The PEDNR WG was tasked to address questions in relation to what extent registrants should be able to renew their domain names after they expire.”
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Tags: ICANN, PEDNR
Posted in Enforcement, Know Your Domains by Kelly Hardy
Posted May 11th, 2011
As reported by Nate Anderson for Wired.com: “ Surprise! After months in the oven, the soon-to-be-released new version of a major U.S. Internet censorship bill didn’t shrink in scope — it got much broader.
Under the new proposal, search engines, internet providers, credit card companies, and ad networks would all have cut off access to foreign “rogue sites”– and such court orders would not be limited to the government. Private rightsholders could go to court and target foreign domains, too.
As for sites which simply change their domain name slightly after being targeted, the new bill will let the government and private parties bring quick action against each new variation.”
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Tags: U.S. Internet Censorship Bill
Posted in Enforcement, Intellectual Property by Kelly Hardy
Posted May 7th, 2011
According to Xinhuanet.com: “The Chinese government announced Wednesday the setting up of an office to manage Internet information in a statement of the State Council General Office.
The department, known as the State Internet Information Office, will direct, coordinate and supervise online content management and handle administrative approval of businesses related to online news reporting, it said.”
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Tags: China, Internet Surveillance
Posted in Enforcement, Tech News by Kelly Hardy
Posted April 1st, 2011
As we are gearing up for major innovation in the domain space, questions of Internet security loom large.
Whois, DNSSEC and New gTLD issues were on the front burner at ICANN 40, so we sat down with Garth Bruen, Internet security expert and creator of Knujon to discuss these topics and more.
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Tags: DNSSEC, ICANN, Knujon, new gTLDs, Whois
Posted in cybercrime, DNS, DNSSEC, Enforcement by Kelly Hardy
Posted February 17th, 2011
“IDG News Service - U.S senators will introduce legislation this year targeting Web sites that traffic in digital piracy or counterfeited goods, said the primary sponsor of a controversial bill proposed in 2010 that would give government agencies more authority to shut down those sites.”
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Tags: Web Seizure
Posted in Enforcement by Kelly Hardy
Posted February 16th, 2011
From internetnews.com
In a speech in Washington, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton offered the administration’s most emphatic rebuke yet of regimes that censor Internet content and target dissident groups online.
As the revolutions in Egypt and Tunisia have inspired groundswells of government opposition in states around the Middle East, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Tuesday noted the powerful role that the Internet and Web-based communications technologies have played in those movements.
See the full story HERE.
Posted in Enforcement, Internet Security, Tech News by Ken Taylor
