John Demco
Dell Files Cybersquatting Lawsuit – Dell Inc. is taking a number of domain registrars and companies to court for a combination of typosquatting and domain tasting. Alledgedly the companies were registering and profiting from domain names that were confusingly similar to Dell trademarks, dropping many of them as the five-day registration grace periods were to expire, and cycling them from company to company and registrar to registrar. Dell has also filed counterfeiting charges.
.AU Domain Surpasses One Million Registrations – Australia’s .au domain has recorded its one millionth registration. As announced by auDA CEO Chris Disspain, the one millionth registration was for elite-finance.com.au.
.TRAVEL Policy Changes Announced – The Travel Partnership Corporation, sponsor of the .travel top-level domain, has approved new registration policies scheduled to take effect on December 21. Among the changes are: widening .travel availability to entities who are “significant participants” in the travel and tourism industry (rather than entities who are “operating primarily” in the industry), permitting the registration of any unregistered name (rather than limiting registration to names which the registrant holds or uses, such as trademark and product names), and removing place name restrictions.
Picks To Click
- Frank Schilling comments on the Dell domain tasting lawsuit.
- A Nominet position paper on domain name front running.
Timeline
- Fri, Dec 7: CIRA Board meeting
- Fri, Dec 7: last day for submissions on the draft ICANN/NRO exchange of letters
- Fri, Dec 7: last day for submissions on a draft advisory concerning ICANN’s Inter-Registrar Transfer Policy
- Fri, Dec 14: last day for submissions on auDA draft strategic plan
- Sat, Dec 15: last day for submissions on single character domain names
- Mon, Dec 17: last day for feedback on proposed Nominet Foundation
- Wed, Dec 19: last day for submissions to .nz IDN consultation
- Fri, Dec 21: new .travel policies to take effect
- Tue, Jan 15: last day of .asia registry sunrise for marks, extended marks, entity names
- Sun, Feb 10 – Fri, Feb 15: ICANN meetings in New Delhi, India
- Fri, Feb 15: last day for submissions to midpoint review of NTIA/ICANN agreement
- Sun, Jun 22 – Fri, Jun 27: ICANN meetings in Paris, France
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