JuliannaWe’ve witnessed an increase in sophisticated phishing emails concerning domain names over the past few weeks. We want to bring your attention to a recent specific email that has been reported to us by vigilant customers. The email purports to be from ‘ICANN’, with the subject line “ACTION REQUIRED: Your domain name will be expired…
Webnames.ca StaffThe arrival of the new .INC domain extension may (or may not) be imminent, the ability to create a name that stands out among the millions of other domains out there certainly sounds appealing. While this news is good news for large businesses, this is even better for small businesses. A domain under the new…
Webnames.ca StaffOn March 26, 2013, Webnames.ca implemented a Trademark Clearinghouse validation page for all Trademark holders. This is in anticipation of the release of new generic top level domains (gTLDs). What is the Trademark Clearinghouse? The Trademark Clearinghouse (TMCH) is a database of trademarks established by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) in…
John DemcoICANN Publishes New gTLD Program Contention Sets – ICANN has completed the contention sets for the New gTLD Program. A contention set is a group of two or more gTLD applications containing identical or visually similar gTLD strings. In addition to 230 exact match contention sets, ICANN has published two non-exact match contention sets in…
Webnames.ca StaffWebnames.ca President and Co-founder, Cybele Negris’s new article in PROFIT magazine is out and she talks about how to Get Ready for an Explosion in Domain Names. Hundreds of new domain name extensions are about to be launched in 2013, creating the largest land rush for domain names. A few years ago, the Internet Corporation…
Webnames.ca StaffWebnames.ca is now accepting pre-registrations for upcoming new generic Top Level Domain Names (like .web, .hotel, .blog, .home, .tech etc.) and we’re getting a lot of great feedback from our customers! These new extensions are a huge opportunity for businesses and individuals. Think of the possibilities! You can be creative (YourNameAt.home), you can be industry…
Webnames.ca StaffYou can now Pre-register new gTLDs (generic Top Level Domains) with Webnames.ca! Earlier this year, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) announced that they are releasing hundreds to over a thousand new generic Top Level domains (gTLDs) in 2013. Webnames.ca has launched a system to let you pre-register for domain name extensions…
Neil LimA Snapshot of The gTLD Expansion On January 12, 2012 ICANN (The Internet Corporation for Assigned names and Numbers) started accepting applications for generic top-level domains (gTLDs) and closed its application period on May 30, 2012. Presently, there are 22 gTLDs including .com, .org, and .net. Out of the several applications, some of the biggest…
Cybele NegrisToday, January 12, 2012 marks the day ICANN (The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) starts accepting applications for new generic top-level domains (gTLDs). This process has been heavily debated amongst the internet community at large as well as within the ICANN board but was approved by ICANN in 2011 at its meeting in…
Garrett SaundryThe CIRA Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (CDRP), which has been in effect since 2002, is a forum which is intended to provide quick, out-of-court arbitrations at relatively low cost for .CA domain names registered in bad faith Last summer, CIRA (The Canadian Internet Registration Authority), held a public consultation on it’s CDRP to gather…
Garrett SaundryNew Domain Names are Coming in 2012 Part of the mandate of ICANN is to make the internet representative and inclusive. Over the last ten years they have tried to pick new top level domain names that would best serve the internet and this centralized process saw the introduction of new domain extensions such as…
JuliannaICANN has approved the first four internationalized top-level domain names (IDNs) for Egypt, Russia, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates. In a statement released yesterday, ICANN president and CEO Rod Beckstrom called it “a pivotal moment in the history of Internet domain names.” Why exactly is the support of internationalized top-level domain names so significant? For starters, the exclusivity…
As most trandemark owners know, it can be costly to defensively register domains for all of your trademarks, especially considering the fact that for some types of businesses, pharmaceutical companies for example, this can mean hundreds of domains. With the imminent introduction of new TLD’s, ICANN is considering introducing a trademark database. It’s already quite costly if you’re…
JuliannaSpam-fighting organization KnujOn, or “no junk” spelled backwards, has released a report on the top 10 registrars it has linked to spam and other illicit activity. Founded in 2005, the KnujOn project targets spam at its root by collecting spam samples from the public, not to build better filters or blacklists, but to terminate illicite…
JuliannaICANN has posted video updates on the Applicant Guidebook and New gTLD Process http://www.icann.org/video/. CEO Paul Twomey, COO Doug Brent and Sr. VP Kurt Pritz talk about the status of the process for introducing new generic top-level domains. They also summarize comments received in the1st round of public comment on the Applicant Guidebook and what…
