2012 News
Tuesday, 24 January 2012
Sophie Tedmanson wrote an interesting article in The Times today about the arrest of the founder of the piracy Internet site Megaupload.com. For more information click on the title above to read the article.
Friday, 20 January 2012
Megaupload, one of the internet's largest file-sharing or Bit Torrent sites was yesterday shut down by the US Justice Department. The site founders and owners have been charged with violating privacy laws in what is being seen as a precursor to the types of action taken if/when the SOPA bill becomes federal law.
Tuesday, 17 January 2012
An updated version of the Applicant Guidebook was posted by ICANN with the opening of the new gTLD application window. ICANN states:
Tuesday, 17 January 2012
The boxer Mike Tyson recently submitted a complaint to WIPO asserting legal rights over a disputed domain name miketyson.com.
Tuesday, 17 January 2012
A new organisation called Dot Kiwi Ltd has applied for the domain suffix .kiwi as part of the new gTLD application window.
Tuesday, 17 January 2012
After more than seven years of planning, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has begun accepting applications for the new generic top-level domains (gTLDs). The world of .com, .gov, .org and 19 other gTLDs will soon be expanded to include all types of words in many different languages and for the first time, generic TLDs can also include words in non-Latin languages, such as Cyrillic, Chinese or Arabic.
Friday, 6 January 2012
In only a few days, ICANN (the body that regulates Internet naming conventions) will be opening its doors to applications to run the next generation of domain extensions (the new form of .com, .net, .org).
This momentous occasion is set to revolutionise the nature of the Internet domain name space forever. No longer will companies, which have the foresight to apply, be constantly battling cybersquatters for their brand name, acquiring domain names already registered at hugely inflated prices in an over populated market and spending way more than necessary chasing brand misuse from online counterfeiters, phishers and fakers.
Tuesday, 3 January 2012
From Stephane Van Gelder, Head of Group NBT's New gTLD Team and Chair of ICANN's Generic Names Supporting Organisation:
In late December, I received a "Happy Christmas" call from ICANN's CEO Rod Beckstrom. A thoughtful gesture, but more importantly a great opportunity to ask him about the current anti-new gTLD pressure that seems to be building in the US.
