Google Files Complaint For AndroidSearch.com Domain Name

Google,has recently filed a complaint against the owner of AndroidSearch.com domain name,seeking control of it.

Google filed the complaint with the National Arbitration Forum on December 12,2014.

According to whois records, the domain name was first registered in January,2010.

The National Arbitration Forum will examine over the next days if the domain name is confusingly similar to Google’s trademark,if the current owner has rights over it and if the domain is being used in bad faith .AndroidSearch.com will be passed over to Google 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.

Coordination Center For TLD RU /.РФ : 59 Domains Blocked in November, After Violating The Rules

The Coordination Center For TLD RU /.РФ announced that 59 domain names were blocked in November, 2014, after violating the rules.

You can read the announcement after the jump :

” In November 2014 Group-IB sent 79 requests to accredited registrars concerning delegation withdrawal of domain names that violated the rules. As a result of undertaken activities 59 domain names were withdrawn.

20 domain names are currently on delegation. 5 domain names from this 20 haven’t been blocked because their administrators quickly resolved deficiencies. 15 domain names were unblocked after their owners have resolved the deficiencies following standard procedure. Unblocking was conducted at the request of CERT-GIB.

The biggest share of domain violators are resources that distribute malware (16%), the lowest are botnet controllers (5%).

For detailed information about how to report cyber threats and other illegal activities in the network, can be found on the Coordination Center webpage.”

ICANN: Request for Proposal for Web Accessibility Assessment for ICANN.org

ICANN is seeking one or more providers to conduct an assessment of website accessibility including ICANN .org and possibly the related subsidiary websites.  The selected provider(s) will provide an initial assessment of ICANN ‘s websites for meeting internationally recognized W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) v2.0 Level AA and include an identification of tools, best practices, processes, and strategy for implementation.

ICANN anticipates a contract to be signed and work to begin no later than March 2015.

One of the goals of the initial assessment is to gain meaningful insight and baseline how ICANN is performing on web accessibility today, to understand what is required to improve, and gain a plan to execute whereby ICANN can measure improvements over a one-year timeframe. We will engage disability stakeholders to perform testing and validate our approach and perform a follow-on survey one year later, to ensure improvements are allowing disable persons to participate.  ICANN is seeking qualified providers to advise on this set of complex activities in a timely and efficient manner.

A multi-stakeholder review team will make use of the Web Accessibility Assessment to review its impact on participation in ICANN policy and the Internet, and inform recommendations for prioritized remediation areas. The review will also inform recommendations to ICANN product roadmap for the website and additional initiatives that should be undertaken.

For additional information and instructions for submitting responses please click here [ZIP, 741 KB].

Proposals should be submitted to
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by 23:59 UTC on 20 January 2015.

RFP timeline at a glance:

Activity	Dates
RFP published	23 December 2014
Participants to indicate interest in submitting RFP	9 January 2015
Participants submit any questions to ICANN	12 January 2015 by 23:59 UTC
ICANN responds to participant questions	16 January 2015
Participant RFP proposals due by	20 January 2015 by 23:59 UTC
Target date for selection of vendor	7 February 2015
Target start date for implementation	21 February 2015
Complete Assessment (Draft, Final) – Target	31 March 2015 – 30 April 2015

ICANN: WHOIS Accuracy Pilot Study Report

Purpose (Brief): The WHOIS Pilot Accuracy Study Report highlights the design, methodology and findings of a pilot study commissioned by ICANN to inform the design of its WHOIS Accuracy Reporting System.

Public Comment Box Link: https://www.icann.org/public-comments/whois-ars-pilot-2014-12-23-en

This ICANN announcement was sourced from:
https://www.icann.org/news/announcement-2-2014-12-23-en

.CLUB Moves Into Second Place After It Passed .Berlin

The new TLD .Club is now the second most registered new domain name extension, after it has just passed .Berlin .

At the time of writing this article, there are now 155,123 .Berlin domain name registered and 156,821 .Club domain names.

According to ntldstats, there are 3,588,115 new gTLD registered up until now. .XYZ is still on the first place with 752,831 registered domain names.

Only four new gTLDs have 100,000 or more registrations :

.XYZ – 752,831
.Club – 156,821
.Berlin – 155,123
.网址 – 102,309

12 new gTLDs have 50,000 or more registrations, while 21 new gTLDs have 30,000 or more registrations.