Posts Tagged ‘Internet Commerce Association’

ICA Tells DOC of Concerns Over USG and GAC "Scorecards"

Internet Commerce Association (ICA) Tells Department of Commerce that USG and GAC Scorecard Goals Could Undermine ICANN’s Multi-Stakeholder Model While Trampling on Registrant Rights

The ICA has just dispatched a letter to Assistant Secretary of Comm…

Business Constituency and ICA Say No to New UDRP Providers

Groups want moratorium on new UDRP providers until ICANN gets handle on them. Both the ICANN Business Constituency and the Internet Commerce Association have asked ICANN to reject any applications from new UDRP providers until “ICANN implements a standard mechanism for establishing uniform rules and procedures and flexible means of delineating and enforcing arbitration provider [...]

Catching Up with The Internet Commerce Association

by Philip S. Corwin, Counsel, Internet Commerce Association [Asking a lawyer to keep a guest post to 600 words or less is impossible. So Phil Corwin's ICA update is a bit longer. But it's a great update, and it's good to know that ICA is still working for you. -Andrew] Thanks to Andrew for this [...]

Google & eBay, Keywords & Domains, & ICANN

Sell a trademark as a keyword for directed search or online auctions and make $billions.

But use a trademark in a domain name for direct search and lose the domain, or worse.

The gap between how trademark law treats the two species of search has gr…

Domain Roundtable to Help Raise Funds for the ICA By Selling Donated Domains During Live Auction

Thought Convergence, the organizers of the Domain Roundtable conference coming up June 14-17 in Washington, D.C. will provide time during the show’s live domain auction to sell domains donated to support the Internet Commerce Association. Donations are…

Michael Collins Resigns His Position as Executive Director of the ICA

Michael Collins has resigned as Executive Director of the Internet Commerce Association in order to work on transitioning a retail business he owns from brick and mortar to the Internet. Collins delivered the news in an email to ICA members.

National Advertisers and TM Owners Call on ICANN to Stop Its Planned Roll Out of New gTLDs

A powerful trade association representing thousands of famous brands has called on ICANN to halt its plans to roll out an unlimited number of new gTLDS in 2009. The Internet Commerce Association also weighed in on the matter in a letter to ICANN’s Boar…