Posted by Caycee Boyce , Wednesday, 23 July 2008

ICANN has received a request from the Czech Arbitration Court (CAC) to run two pilot projects related to its implementation of UDRP.

Background to Posting

CAC was approved as a UDRP provider at the Board meeting on 23 January 2008.

CAC wishes to run tests of the following two UDRP-related services as part of its implementation of UDRP :

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Posted by David Goldstein , Tuesday, 22 July 2008

by Michael Park, Senior Associate, Deacons Lawyers, Australia

ICANN recently approved draft proposals that would see the biggest ever expansion of domain name choice.

Under the draft proposals anyone would be allowed to apply for a generic top level domain (gTLD), resulting in an unlimited number of gTLDs. Currently, there are a limited number of gTLDs, including .com, .net and .gov (and .com.au, .net.au and .gov.au in Australia), which are strictly controlled by ICANN and each country’s internet regulatory authority (for example, .au Domain Administration for .au domain names). ICANN has introduced several new gTLDs, such as .biz, .travel and .asia, but the draft proposals could allow gTLDs such as .ebay and .yahoo.

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Posted by David Goldstein , Tuesday, 22 July 2008

LACTLD, the association for ccTLD managers in the Latin American and Caribbean region, has appointed Erick Iriarte Ahon to theposition of their General Manager.

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Posted by David Goldstein , Tuesday, 22 July 2008

Throughout the month of July, two-letter .gp (the Guadeloupe ccTLD) domain names can be purchased for the same price as a regular .gp domain name.

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Posted by David Goldstein , Tuesday, 22 July 2008

 

With changes to the .au ccTLD policy that now allow for transfers of domain names and subsequently trading in domain names, Netfleet.com.au have commenced an online domain trading site for auctions and sales of .au domain names.

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Posted by David Goldstein , Tuesday, 22 July 2008

Melbourne IT, global leader in domain name registrations and related online business solutions, joins RegistryPro in relaunching the .Pro TLD.

RegistryPro, the exclusive operator of the .Pro TLD on the Internet, announced today that Melbourne IT, one of the top 15 global domain name registrars, has agreed to participate in the highly-anticipated .Pro TLD (Top Level Domain) relaunch on September 8, 2008.

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Posted by Michael Gilmour , Tuesday, 22 July 2008

This article continues directly on from Part 12 and Part 13 in the series on the domain industry.

This brings up the most important point that we need to never forget, traffic really is king. It's the one unique resource that everyone needs and they're prepared to pay for it. This is why I think that while domains keep on generating traffic then we'll all still be in the game. Someone, somewhere will want to pay for it no matter what Google and Yahoo actually decide in their corporate ivory towers or if parking company mergers happen.

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Posted by David Goldstein , Monday, 21 July 2008

Register for this event

Date: August 6th, 2008
Time: 10 AM EDT / 3 PM BST / 4 PM CEST

Managing IP will host a free web seminar, in association with Melbourne IT Digital Brand Services covering Internet liberalization: opportunities and challenges for IP owners

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Posted by Chief Editor , Monday, 21 July 2008

Here are the Sedo.com sales results for the week leading up to July 21st:
               
.coms               
everestgames.com             33,333    USD   
customtshirt.com              12,000    USD   
my5gb.com                  10,000    USD   
givingkiosk.com              10,000    USD   
knu.com                  9,450    USD   
7y.com                      9,000    EUR   
rxl.com                  8,920    USD   
ultrabattery.com              8,700    USD   
nuj.com                  8,001    USD

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Posted by David Goldstein , Monday, 21 July 2008

Changes have occurred to the eligibility requirements for .tr domain names. The new changes are as follows:

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