Introducing new generic top-level domains (gTLDs) is central to fostering choice and competition in domain registration services, and as such is significant to the promotion of ICANN’s core values. The evolution of the namespace towards an enhanced diversity of services and service providers must be planned and managed effectively to preserve the security, stability, and global interoperability of the Internet.
The proposed policy to guide the introduction of new gTLDs was created by the Generic Names Supporting Organization (GNSO) through its bottom-up, multi-stakeholder policy development process. The elements addressed in the development of the new gTLD policy involve technical, economic, operational, legal, public policy, and other considerations. The intended result is a straightforward, fair, and efficient process for allocating new gTLDs.
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This announcement describes fifteen draft amendments to the Registrar Accreditation Agreement (RAA) for consideration and discussion by the ICANN community. The amendments were developed through a community consultation process and then a discussion between registrars and ICANN taking that comment into account. The draft amendments are presented here to facilitate further community discussion with the objective of implementing a set of contract changes to enhance registrant protections. ICANN staff will be available to facilitate discussions with constituency groups at ICANN’s meetings in Paris and afterwards. These amendments fall into four general categories:
The OECD’s Future of the Internet conference is currently underway with a wide representation of government and other bodies being represented. Among those present were Paul Twomey from ICANN who said it plans to introduce top-level domains in Korean characters early next year reports DongA. (see stories 4 & 5). The conference is, in part, looking at domain name issues.
Properly protecting your intellectual property portfolio, and specifically your domain names, can save you from avoidable domain name disputes in the future. More importantly, it can put you in a position to assert your trademark rights against others who are misusing them - be it as part of a domain name, for the name of a competing business, or for the brand of a similar product or services. Here is a list of musts for any trademark owner:
Korea, 17th June, 2008 – The Number Resource Organization (NRO), which is made up of the world’s five Regional Internet Registries (RIRs), AfriNIC, APNIC, ARIN, LACNIC and the RIPE NCC, has issued an appeal for investment in Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) infrastructure. The global RIR community will be represented by the NRO at the June OECD Ministerial Meeting in Seoul, Korea, where it will support this urgent call.
Click Medium Inc a leading provider of keyword driven generic domain names is putting up for auction some of the most coveted generic travel related domains.
On June 19th, 2008 they will list fourteen domains that target the travel industry. The domains in the portfolio target travelers who are searching for flights to specific cities. One example of one such domain is FlightToBoston.com. It's estimated that the keyword search term "Flight To Boston" is searched across the search engines more than 195,000 times a month. The entire portfolio includes domains that match terms that are searched more than 1.3 Million times a month...
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