ICANN: Updated Auction Schedule – 16 January
The Auction Schedule is updated as of 16 January 2015 to reflect eligible contention sets and accommodated postponement requests.
- View the Auction Schedule as of 16 January 2015 [PDF, 252 KB]
This ICANN announcement was sourced from:
http://newgtlds.icann.org/en/applicants/auctions
ICANN: Webinars Scheduled to Explain Public Comment Enhancements
In addressing recommendations from the recent efforts of the second Accountability and Transparency Review Team (ATRT2), the ICANN staff has developed enhancements to the organization’s public comment proceeding processes. These enhancements will launch on 26 January 2015.
Two major changes will be implemented: 1) suspending the public comment reply cycle, and 2) launching an inquiry feature to allow for community feedback on staff summary reports of submitted comments. These improvements will be featured in redesigned landing pages for future public comment proceedings.
As part of these enhancements, the standard comment period will now be extended to a target of 40 days (minimum) and staff summary reports will be targeted for completion within two weeks of the comment period close date.
Two webinars will be held on Thursday 22 January 2015 at 10:00 UTC and 19:00 UTC to explain these changes in more detail. The two sessions are intended to be duplicates, scheduled to accommodate interested stakeholders in different time zones. Each session is scheduled for 60 minutes. During the course of the webinar, questions may be submitted using the chat function in Adobe Connect.
The presentation slides and recordings and transcripts of the webinars will be made available on the Public Comment Enhancements Webinar Reference Materials page. Additionally, ICANN staff is available to answer any questions about these changes via email at
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In 2014, the staff Policy Development Support Team assumed day-to-day oversight of ICANN ‘s public comment proceedings. The team spent considerable time reviewing the existing public comment infrastructure, processes, and procedures and gathering data on community comment activity to determine what changes inspired by the original recommendations of ATRT1 have been effective and to determine the best way to implement the ATRT2 recommendations.
Since then, the team has worked closely with the staff Online Community Services staff to evolve and enhance the existing infrastructure of the public comment pages on the ICANN website.
Public Comment Enhancements Webinars
Thursday, January 22, 2015 | 10:00 UTC and 19:00 UTC
Participation Details: https://community.icann.org/x/_pQQAw
This ICANN announcement was sourced from:
https://www.icann.org/news/announcement-2015-01-16-en
eBay Wins UDRP Case Covering Over 1,000 Domain Names Containing its Trademark
eBay has recently won a UDRP case, covering over 1,000 domain names containing its trademark.
eBay filed a compalint against the owner of 1,153 eBay-related .COM and .Net domain names. All the domain names included in the complaint contained its trademark and a series of numbers.
According to whois records, the domain names were all registered over two days ,last year.
eBAY owns many trademark registrations for the “eBay” mark all over the world. Therefore,it is more than obvious that the disputed domain names are confusingly similar to its trademark.Moreover,the company managed to demonstrate that the respondent has no rights or legitimate interest in the disputed domain names and that the respondent used the domain names in bad faith .
The arbitrator assigned to the case ruled in favor of eBay,indicating that the company has full rights to the disputed domain names .The respondent’s loss was also partly due to the fact that he failed to submit a response in this proceeding ,accepting these way eBay’s allegations as fact .
AOL Files Complaint for AOLCenter247.com Domain Name
AOL,has recently filed a complaint against the owner of AOLCenter247.com domain name,seeking control of it.
AOL filed the complaint with the National Arbitration Forum in January,2015.
According to whois records, the domain name was first registered in January,2014.
The National Arbitration Forum will examine over the next days if the domain name is confusingly similar to AOL’s trademark,if the current owner has rights over it and if the domain is being used in bad faith.AOLCenter247.com will be passed over to AOL if it falls under all three of these stipulations.
At the time of writing this article, the case is still pending compliance checks with the National Arbitration Forum.
Sedo’s January 2015 GreatDomains Auction is Underway! 20 Domain Names Already have Bids
Sedo’s January 2015 GreatDomains auction is underway. The auction features 54 domain names, out of which 20 already have bids .
Employer.com received two bids, with the highest one of $10,100. Doing.com also managed to attract a lot of interest and received eight bids, with the highest one of $2,500.
The auction ends January 22, 2015.
Some interesting domain names included in the auction are:
Koz.com
Helmut.com
SVR.fr
Ignite.com
Night.com
FashionDeal.com
You can see the entire inventory here.
