Josh Bourne ⬥ 14 November Remember a few months back when online retailer Overstock.com started promoting a new domain name O.co? It began by touting it as its “new shortcut,” but recently launched an advertising push declaring “Overstock.com is now O.co.” It even had the name of the Oakland NFL/MLB stadium, the Overstock.com Coliseum, changed […]
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Josh Bourne ⬥ 8 November I missed the Chicago-Philadelphia football game last night, so this morning I went online to check the score. On a whim I decided to type MondayNightFootball.com into my browser bar, thinking that there was a chance it might lead me to what I was looking for. The domain directed me
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Samantha Demetriou ⬥ 27 October Today, FairWinds Managing Partner Josh Bourne published a cover article for iMedia Connection. The article, titled “Your Step-by-Step Guide to Acquiring a gTLD” walks applicants through all the phases of applying for and acquiring a new gTLD – from the initial fact gathering and planning; to preparing the best application
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FairWinds Partners — October 27, 2011 On Monday, ICANN opened the TLD Application System (TAS) Demo, an interactive mock up of a real gTLD application that lets you navigate through the steps of registering, creating a profile, completing and submitting a new gTLD application. Readers will remember from our earlier post, “New gTLD Applicant Guidebook
FairWinds Partners — October 14, 2011 By now, regardless of how we may feel about new gTLDs, we all know who was the driving force behind the New gTLD Program – ICANN, the California-based non-profit that is in charge of coordinating the Internet’s domain name system. Well, actually that’s not quite true. It turns out
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Steve Levy ⬥ 13 October On certain occasions here at FairWinds, one of the best things we can do for our clients is tell them no. I’m specifically referring to recovering domain names via UDRP. Not every domain name is a good candidate for a UDRP complaint, because while the UDRP is a great system,
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Tom Carroll ⬥ 10 October It’s been about three years since the last James Bond movie, “Quantum of Solace,” was released in theaters. After some delays, which were the result of speculation that Daniel Craig might be walking away from the role of 007 and problems at MGM, it looks like the next Bond movie
FairWinds Partners — October 7, 2011 The driving mission behind the gTLD Strategy blog is to provide brand owners and brand representatives with objective information about new gTLDs in order to provide them with completely unbiased advice on how to develop strategies around new gTLDs. We understand that some brands will, in fact, extract the
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FairWinds Partners — October 6, 2011 One of the biggest questions currently on people’s minds is, so just who is going to apply for a new gTLD? In other words, what is the Internet going to look like two years from now? Many organizations are keeping their plans close to the vest in an attempt
Josh Bourne ⬥ 4 October At the end of September, Interpol coordinated a massive, multi-pronged effort to crack down on illegal Internet pharmacies that peddle fake prescription drugs. A recent article in The Registerdescribes how police forces, customs agencies, ISPs, payment processors and delivery companies all contributed to the effort that arrested suspects in 81
Steve Levy ⬥ 28 September “Bad faith” can some times be the trickiest element to prove when trying to demonstrate that a registrant has cybersquatted a domain name. Many times, whether a domain owner has acted in bad faith comes down to timing, specifically when he or she first registered the domain name. This principle
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Josh Bourne ⬥ 27 September Early last month, I blogged about Web.com’s acquisition of Network Solutions, the oldest domain name registrar in existence. Now, as of last week, Group NBT, a London-based domain name management and web hosting company, has been purchased by private equity firm HgCapital Funds. According to ShareCast, the terms of the
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