John DemcoVeriSign has released its quarterly Domain Name Industry Brief. There were 174 million domain name registrations at the end of the third quarter of 2008, a 19% annual increase. Last quarter the annual increase was 22%, and the quarter before that it was 26%. Registrations from the ccTLDs totaled almost 69 million, a 26% annual…
Garrett SaundrySo this is what you’ve all been waiting for, the superfun fantastic happy edition of Webnames Favourite Websites. If you’re looking to waste some time or just need a good chuckle you’ll be sure to find it here. These two sites can either be looked at as reference or as fun depending on how you…
Webnames.ca StaffEvery week CIRA releases their list of .ca domain names that will be expiring a week later. At Webnames.ca we encourage the prebooking of expiring domain names. Snatch them up before someone else does! Or should you? You see captainkirk.ca is coming available next week. You rub your hands with glee. “Hazzah” you think, “that…
Webnames.ca Staff.TEL Sunrise is set to launch tomorrow morning at 7:00am PST. The Sunrise period provides trademark holders an opportunity to protect their trademarks. A few notes about Sunrise: Trademark application date must be prior to May 30, 2008. Trademark registration date must be prior to December 3, 2008. Applications are considered on a world-wide basis, independently…
Amy ElderkinMore .TEL Related Articles from Law Firms and Intellectual Property AgentsRead Part 1 of this article. Ashurst The .TEL domain name: sunrise period starts 3 December for trade mark owners (Communications newsletter, October 2008)http://www.ashurst.com/publication-item.aspx?id_Content=3988 ShoosmithsEasy access to contact details via .tel domainshttp://www.shoosmiths.co.uk/news/1723.asp Charles Russell From 3 December 2008, applications are open for the new .tel…
Garrett SaundrySo watching an episode of Oprah’s Favourite Things this year, a brilliant idea hit me. We need a Webnames version of it. It’s not going to create the frenzy that a free Internet fridge or a HD camcorder will but I do want to see some screaming, some tears and even a fainting spell or two. I…
Garrett Saundry.TEL domain names won’t be going live until February 3, 2009, but anyone that wants to get a better idea of how .TEL works can get a free trial name through Telnic’s VIP program. Through the program, people can create a name in the format [yourName].vip.tel and manage contact information using a beta release of…
Amy ElderkinThere has been a proliferation of dot TEL articles and client alerts appearing on blogs, web sites and newsletters of law firms and intellectual property firms over the past weeks. With Sunrise Registration for trademark holders beginning December 3, trademark holders have just one week remaining to pre-book their trademark names. “One of the reasons…
JuliannaBuild out your portfolio or snag a wicked domain for your business, blog or website! Here are Heidi and Julianna’s top picks from the CIRA’s To-Be-Released .CA Domains list. These domains are available for pre-booking now, and will be released by CIRA on Wednesday, December 3rd: blogwriter.ca bonjob.ca canadianpr.ca canadianwebpages.ca connectivity.ca directdeposit.ca gadgetworld.ca greenmama.ca femininehygiene.ca…
John DemcoBowring & Co. has won a dispute over bowring.ca. The decision is interesting because it is the second complaint concerning the same Complainant, Registrant, and domain name. The Panel decided that it was entitled to rule on the complaint in spite of the first CIRA proceeding because there is nothing under the dispute policy or…
Webnames.ca StaffFor companies who are in the emerging “alternative energy” market or working in environmental sustainability, domain names with the word green in them are like gold. There are even websites devoted to reselling green-themed domain names. It would appear that all the good ones are gone, but are they really? Every week, expiring dot-CA domain…
JuliannaWe’re in the early days of using Twitter, and while we’re struggling with it a little, it certainly has been interesting. Twitter was not designed with businesses in mind; however, corporate culture has embraced it in a big way over the past year. For the uninitiated, Twitter is a social messaging utility that is often…
Garrett SaundryMost of us have computers at home these days and we seem to take for granted the fact that we turn it on, click on the fancy little button for internet and find ourselves up to no good in less than 30 seconds. Computers are sort of like cars to most of us, we turn…
ICANN has reported on the significant effect of a short term measure to reduce domain tasting by charging a per-transaction fee on all names deleted during the five-day Add Grace Period (AGP) if they exceed a defined threshhold. Names added and then deleted during the AGP declined by 84% from 17.6M in June 2008 to…
Some people still have a tough time wrapping their minds around dot TEL and what all the fuss is about. I think this is partly because it’s a domain name but with different functionality and partly because some of the benefit comes from your friends having a dot TEL, rather than just you having one.…
