The recent ruling by WIPO in the ITT-Barton case might be an important precedent for future cases between holders of a registered trade mark and online companies selling their goods. In this case, it was deemed that a company selling ITT-Barton goods, has legitimate interests in holding domain names containing the words “ITT Barton” even […]
Read more >Due to a major system upgrade, the .be-registry will be off-line from Tue Nov 2008 14:00 until approximately 24 hours later. There should be no interruption on any active domain names, but no actions on .be domain names will be possible (like updates or new domain name registrations). If you manage your .be domain name […]
Read more >The internet provider McColo had been taken off-line last Wednesday by two of its uplink providers. Investigations had revealed that McColo was running a botnet responsible for what would seem to be around 50% of all spam being sent. Last Saterday they however managed to get internet access restarted temporarily via a new provider (Telia.net). […]
Read more >The site http://www.wikipedia.de until recently referred to http://de.wikipedia.org. The Wikipedia page about the parliamentarian Lutz Heilmann mentions that he previously been assosiated with the Stasi and that he has tried to hide that piece of his past after the fall of the Berlin wall. Through a court order Lutz Heilmann succeeded in forcing the owner […]
Read more >Amounts of spam arriving on servers drops by over 50% Based on evidence gather by Washington Post reporters and the security industry, the hosting provider McColo Corp from San Jose, California, has been cut off. At least two large uplink providers for McColo have shut down their up link to them (Global Crossing and Hurricane […]
Read more >Soon, it will be possible to register a single character domain name under the .sg extension and all its subdomaines (.com.sg, .org.sg, .net.sg, .edu.sg, .gov.sg, .per.sg). With one character there are of course not that many different names to register. You only have 26 letters and 10 numbers. How will the registrations work? From December […]
Read more >Tuesday November 18th the sunrise period for .co.nl begins. bNamed offers you the possibility to pre-register your name under this extension. Down below, you’ll find more information about the sunrise and the landrush. 1) November 18th – January 15th: Grandfather period During this period, the owners of a registered .nl name exclusively have the right […]
Read more >The winter period seems to be seen as the ideal time for registries to promote their product. We have seen this a couple of times in the past with promotions organised by the .be registry. Within the coming weeks both the .nl and .eu-registry will be promoting their TLD’s. Since gigantic resources would be needed […]
Read more >This week, ICANN holds a meeting in Caïro. One of the things that will be discussed during this meeting is the price for a personal extension. Right now, the price proposal is the following: if you want to register a personal extension, you need to submit an application. This application will cost €150.000 and this […]
Read more >A while ago, the third million .nl domain name was registred at SIDN (.nl registry). So this extension is doing a very good job. According to SIDN, there could still be a lot more registrations under this extension. Surveys show that a lot of people, especially habitants of the Netherlands, are willing to register a […]
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