Josh Bourne ⬥ 23 January For brand owners, the launch of a new generic top-level domain (gTLD) brings with it a now all-too familiar nuisance: the Sunrise period. Sunrise periods are a necessary evil for businesses: on the one hand, they provide businesses with the opportunity to protect their brand in newly launched extensions, but […]
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Josh Bourne ⬥ 9 January Back in September, we published a Perspectives paper about a survey scam that targeted social networks: when Internet users mistyped the domain names of popular social media sites like Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and others into their browsers’ address bars, they were led to a website that was formatted similarly to
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Josh Bourne ⬥ 9 January Back in September, we published a Perspectives paper about a survey scam that targeted social networks: when Internet users mistyped the domain names of popular social media sites like Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and others into their browsers’ address bars, they were led to a website that was formatted similarly to
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FairWinds Partners — December 28, 2011 What are the odds that the same week we decide to run a series about the financial aspects of applying for and running a new gTLD, ICANN publishes a set of guidelines for the Continued Operations Instrument (COI)? Maybe it’s because the COI is a question that has been
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Phil Lodico ⬥ 21 December Anyone who has lost a domain because they let the registration lapse knows how important it is to make sure to renew your domains before the registration expires. Just ask Trevor Tahlem Smith, Jr. Not familiar with Mr. Smith? You might know him better by his stage name, Busta Rhymes.
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FairWinds Partners — December 20, 2011 This week here on the gTLD Strategy blog, we’re going to be talking finance. Specifically, we’ll be breaking down the costs of applying for and operating a new gTLD, the application questions that deal with finances, and a little thing called the Continuing Operations Instrument (COI). Today, we’re going
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Josh Bourne ⬥ 14 December ICM Registry, the company that administers the .XXX sponsored top-level domain (sTLD),announced this morning that it was suspending domain registrations “that appear to involve unmistakable, blatant cybersquatting.” The announcement came in the wake of suspicious registrations for famous trademarked names including BusinessWeek.xxx, CNBC.xxx and WashingtonPost.xxx, among others. ICM’s swift move
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Steve Levy ⬥ 9 December Simply put, not all domains are good candidates for a UDRP complaint. It is the duty of a Complainant and its counsel to both carefully research claims before filing and also to be prepared to alter their strategy if new facts come to light after filing. If these fundamentals are
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Josh Bourne ⬥ 6 December Because ICANN’s new gTLD program will open up the domain name system on a scale that we have never seen before, there has been a great deal of speculation surrounding the implications of the program and the new domain names that it will produce. For example, some have claimed that
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FairWinds Partners — November 29, 2011 When it comes to ICANN’s New gTLD Program, there are a lot of unknowns. Businesses are asking questions about batching, evaluation processes, Contention Sets, and when the next application round will be held. Some, however, have already started looking beyond the application and evaluation phases to the future and
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Josh Bourne ⬥ 28 November Zut alors! According to The Guardian, identity squatting is no longer a problem that only American politicians face. It appears that French squatters have a certain savoir faire for the practice as well, and it extends all the way up to the office of Prime Minister. When users type in
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Josh Bourne ⬥ 18 November In the past we’ve written about members of Congress and other elected officials who do not own their names as domain names. In many cases, the officials’ names have been registered by opportunistic squatters and host pay-per-click ads. But every so often, an official’s name is registered by a competing
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