Tech Week in Review 6-24-2011
ICANN Approves New Top-Level Domains In a monumental decision this week, ICANN gave final approval to allow for the expansion of new Top-Level Domains (TLDs). This means that companies, organizations, and other brands (yes, there is now a .brand TLD) can better express themselves via their domain names. Strings like .CAR, .SPORTS or .BANK are [...]
Read MoreNew Internet Real Estate Available: .CO Domains Go Public
Today, the Internet just got a little bigger as .CO domain names open up to the public. The .com domains are mostly gone. It’s almost impossible to find a good one these days with more than 90 million of them already taken. Tens of thousands of people are already estimated to be pre-registered for .CO [...]
Read MoreICANN’s Introduces Customized Top Level Domain Names
Last year, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) announced they were accepting application for new gTLDs, generic top level domain names. The term “gTLD” refers to the specific suffixes which appear at the end of Internet addresses and are used to route traffic through the Internet. Most gTLDs, such as .com or [...]
Read MoreHow To Combat Cybersquatting
Wikipedia defines Cybersquatting as the “registering, trafficking in, or using a domain name with bad faith intent to profit from the goodwill of a trademark belonging to someone else.” Cybersquatting is big business. Some squatters make it a business to register the names of famous people and businesses who have yet to register their domain [...]
Read MoreJay-Z Suing Red Sox Baseball Player David Ortiz Over 40/40 Trademark
Hip-Hop Mogul Jay-Z filed a trademark infringement lawsuit against Boston Red Sox, David Ortiz, for using his trademark, Forty-Forty, as the name of his club in Dominican Republic. Although there is a legal issue regarding whether Jay-Z can sue for trademark infringement in the Dominican Republic, he can sue David Ortiz for trademark infringement here [...]
Read MoreHow Ed Lover Can Win His C’Mon Son Domain Name Dispute
Yesterday this site posted a story about Ed Lover’s dispute over the domain name C’mon Son. Basically Ed Lover has been using the phrase “C’mon Son” as a catchy phrase during his You Tube videos and to name his video episodes. Arguably we can conclude that Ed Lover does have a trademark right to the [...]
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