ICANN Completes Negotiations with Applicants for .JOBS and .TRAVEL: “ICANN has completed negotiations with the applicants for the .JOBS and .TRAVEL sponsored top-level domains. The .JOBS and .TRAVEL sponsored TLD registry agreements have been posted on the ICANN website and submitted to the ICANN Board for approval.” Continue Reading
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ICANN Approves Domain Name for European Union
Announced yesterday: “Earlier this week, ICANN’s Board took steps to authorize the delegation of .EU as a ccTLD (country code Top Level Domain), and for ICANN Staff to enter into an agreement with EURid and to complete the delegation of .EU.” Additional details available in this AP article. Continue Reading
Review of the Whois Source Domain Explorer
Another Expanded Whois Service, by Chris Sherman References: Network Solutions’ Enhanced Whois Lookup and the Whois Source Domain Explorer Continue Reading
Google and Domain Name Disputes
From Susan Kuchinskas, interesting news of the continuing saga concerning Google’s domain name challenges, as documented in Of Boobles, Froogles and Googles. See also Google’s challenge of Froogles.com name rejected. Continue Reading
ID Theft Bills Progress on Hill
The Fraudulent Online Identity Sanctions Act (H.R. 3754), to provide additional civil and criminal remedies for domain name fraud, was approved by the House Judiciary Cmte. on May 12, as was H.R. 1731, the Identity Theft Penalty Enhancement Act. For reference, see the Lanham Act. Continue Reading
VeriSign v. ICANN Over SiteFinder
As a follow-up to my previous postings on ICANN’s dispute with VeriSign’s over SiteFinder, from February, VeriSign Files Lawsuit Against ICANN, this update today from AP, ICANN’s latest challenge tests new Internet services, and the following related information and documents: Verisign Inc. v. Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers et al. (Central Dist. of… Continue Reading
Commentary Advocating Auction of Top Level Domains
An Economic Analysis of Domain Name Policy, by Karl M. Manheim and Lawrence B. Solum. From the abstract: “Based on the telecommunications experience, the best method for ICANN to allocate new Top Level Domains would be to conduct an auction. Many auction designs are possible. One proposal is to auction a fixed number of new… Continue Reading
Domain Area for Children Underutilized
The domain area created by law just for kids has attracted little interest or investment, resulting in the creation of but a handful of new children friendly websites. Continue Reading
Failure to Renew Domain Causes Problems for Washington Post
“E-mail communication to and from The Washington Post was disrupted yesterday after its washpost.com Internet address was shut down because the company failed to renew its $35 annual registration.” [Link] See also this internetnews.com article. Continue Reading
New Legislation on Domain Name Fraud
Fraudulent Online Identity Sanctions Act (Introduced in House), February 3, 2004: HR 3754, To provide additional civil and criminal remedies for domain name fraud. See this posting on the bill by Susan Crawford, Assistant Professor of Law, Cardozo School of Law, and an article from Reuters, Lawmakers Push Penalties for False Web Records. See also… Continue Reading
PC Users Experience Problems Due to VeriSign Certificate Revocation
VeriSign to implement change to .com and .net: “Some networking experts fear the change could cause Internet traffic problems. VeriSign Inc. is planning a change to a Domain Name System component responsible for coordinating updates to the .com and .net domains throughout the DNS, according to a company spokesman.” VeriSign’s dead certificates ‘knocked out Norton’… Continue Reading
ICANN Approves Global User Community Participation
From a December 16 announcement by ICANN: “In an important step towards fulfilling the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers’ (ICANN’s) objective to have informed, structured participation of the individual Internet user community (“At-Large”), six organizations in three geographic regions have received “At-Large Structure” certification. Certification recognizes that the following groups meet ICANN’s criteria… Continue Reading
