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How Canadian Trade-Mark Owners Can Prepare for Major Changes Coming to the Trade-Marks Act

Posted on December 1, 2017March 20, 2018 by

A little over a year from now the most substantive changes to the Canadian Trademarks Act in over half a century will begin to take effect. Trisha Doré, a registered Trade-mark agent with Richards Buell Sutton who specializes in the preparation, filing and prosecution of trade-mark applications, recommends that Canadian trademark owners audit their portfolios…

New gTLDs Highlight: .ONLINE – Why you should pre-register!

Posted on May 9, 2013June 9, 2016 by

Webnames.ca Staff

Webnames.ca is now accepting pre-registrations for upcoming new generic Top Level Domain Names (gTLDs) 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 business and individuals. In order to showcase the benefits of these new extensions, we plan…

New gTLDs Highlight: .PROPERTY – Why you should pre-register!

Posted on March 22, 2013September 12, 2013 by

Webnames.ca Staff

Webnames.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 domain extensions are a huge opportunity for businesses and individuals. In order to showcase the benefits of these new extensions, we plan…

ICANN Approves New gTLD Program – A New Domain Landscape is on the Horizon

Posted on June 22, 2011August 25, 2014 by

Garrett Saundry

New 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…

Webnames.ca to Sponsor 83rd Annual IPIC General Meeting

Posted on August 21, 2009October 9, 2015 by

Julianna

Webnames.ca is pleased to announce our sponsorship of the 83rd annual meeting of the Intellectual Property Institute of Canada’s (IPIC) taking place in St. John’s, NFL, from September 23-25, 2009. This is the second year Webnames.ca has sponsored the annual event, speaking at the 2008 event about .TEL rules and policies. Founded in 1926, (IPIC)…

Good News For Trademark Holders

Posted on July 14, 2009August 25, 2014 by

Garrett Saundry1 Comment

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…

Concern Over 10 Day Reconsideration Period for .TEL

Posted on October 17, 2008August 25, 2014 by

Garrett Saundry

Stephen Smith, President of Webnames.ca spoke to members of the Intellectual Property Institute of Canada (IPIC) following his .TEL presentation on Tuesday to the Domain Names & Trademarks on the Internet Committee. Mr Smith presented an overview of the .TEL domain and the associated rules and policies. He summarized material from the Webnames.ca “.TEL Briefing Paper for…