Posts Tagged ‘Trademarks’

Is your company ready for ".anything"?

The Internet as we know it may soon be changing forever.

House holds hearing on the new generic top-level domain program

On December 14, 2011, the United States House of Representatives’ Energy & Commerce Committee’s Subcommittee on Communications and Technology held a hearing entitled “ICANN’s Top-Level Domain Name Program.” 

New gTLD hearing, Round 2: a critical House, but to what end?

After the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation hearing on ICANN’s new gTLD Program on December 8, the House Energy and Commerce Committee’s Subcommittee on Communications and Technology held a similar hearing this morning.

ICM Registry Suspends TM Domains Including BusinessWeek.xxx, cnbc.xxx, VerizonWireless.xxx, WashingtonPost.xxx

According to a Press release by the ICM Registry, the official registry of the new .xxx top-level domain TLD, ICM “announced that as part of its investigation of reported cybersquatting by a handful of individuals, it has suspended registrations that appear to involve unmistakable, blatant cybersquatting in violation of the Registry’s policies and the Registry-Registrant [...]

WVU buys .xxx domain names to protect trademarks – Charleston Gazette

CHARLESTON, W.Va. — West Virginia University has ventured into the Internet world of adult-themed websites to protect its trademarks. The university bought 18 Internet .xxx website names to keep them out of the hands of pornography site operators and …

gTLDs Opponents Create the Very Confusion They Decry

It’s ironic and amusing that while a few well-connected opponents of the new gTLD program were testifying before the U.S. Senate committee, I was asked to help educate top executives of one of the largest global ad agencies and their major clients on t…

Intellectual property advisory: Senate holds hearing on the new generic top-level domain program

On December 8, 2011, The United States Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, & Transportation held a full committee hearing to examine the merits and implications of the New gTLD Program and ICANN’s continuing efforts to address concerns raised by t…