Yahoo Files Complaint for YahooAcademy.com
The American multinational Internet Corporation,Yahoo,has recently filed a complaint against the owner of YahooAcademy.com domain name,seeking control of it.
Yahoo filed the complaint with the National Arbitration Forum on September 4,2014.
According to whois records, the domain name was first registered in September 2013.
The National Arbitration Forum will examine over the next days if the domain name is confusingly similar to Yahoo’s trademark,if the current owner has rights over it and if the domain is being used in bad faith .YahooAcademy.com will be passed over to Yahoo 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.
SnapNames To Hold 2014 Year-End Premium Auction In November
SnapNames is hosting this autumn the 2014 Year-End premium auction. The auction is set to begin November 13,2014 at 3:15 pm ET.and features hand selected domain names across many popular online verticals including Finance,Sports, Travel and Technology.
The inventory will features domain names from low and no reserve to ultra premium reserve ranges.
In order to participate you have to set-up a new SnapNames account . If you want to speak to a domain name sales specialist regardin domain names for sale contact SnapNames by email or phone :
Email: auction[@]Moniker.com
Phone: Toll free in the U.S. and Canada 866-690-6279
Phone: Outside the U.S. and Canada 503-241-8547
Here are the submission criteria :
One or two generic word domains or 1-4 character domains.
Domains and websites in popular e-commerce and search-engine categories (such as finance, travel, debt relief, jobs or shopping) are preferred.
Domains that include assets such as a web site, trademarks, copyrights, etc should be noted in the submission form.
Domain traffic and revenue data should be included whenever possible.
Google Wins GoogleIlanlari.com and GoogleIlanlarekibi.com Domains in Arbitration
Google won another UDRP case seeking to obtain the transfer of two domain names. The company submitted the complaint with the National Arbitration Forum on July 21,2014.
The two disputed domain names are : GoogleIlanlari.com and GoogleIlanlarekibi.com
Google owns many trademark registrations for the “Google” 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 Google,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 Google’s allegations as fact .
You can read the decision here .
ICANN : Call for Observers to Join Cross Community Working Group to Develop an IANA Stewardship Transition Proposal on Naming Related Functions
The organizations that have adopted the charter for the Cross Community Working Group (CWG) to develop an Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) Stewardship Transition Proposal on Naming Related Functions call for observers to join this effort.
The primary goal of the CWG is to produce a consolidated transition proposal for the elements of the IANA Functions relating to the Domain Name System.
Participating as observer
Participation in the CWG is open to members and observers. In addition to members, who are appointed by the chartering organizations, anyone interested in the work of the CWG, can join as an observer. Observers are expected to actively participate and attend all meetings. The only difference between a member and an observer is that any consensus calls or formal decisions that may need to be made will be limited to CWG members appointed by the chartering organizations. However, this does not take away that it is the expectation that the CWG will operate as much as possible with the views and consensus support of all participants in mind as the importance of considering all input and views on this important topic is recognized. Observers may be from a chartering organization, from a stakeholder group or organization not represented in the CWG or currently active within ICANN, or self-appointed.
How to join
If you are interested in joining, please contact Grace Abuhamad (
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), or the secretariats of your Supporting Organization or Advisory Committee. All participants (members and observers) will be listed on the CWG’s webpage. All observers are also required to submit a Statement of Interest (SOI) following the procedures of their chartering organization, or where that is not applicable for observers, the GNSO Procedures should be followed (see https://community.icann.org/x/cYLg).
Next steps
The CWG is currently in formation. To date, the At-Large Advisory Committee (ALAC), the Country Code Supporting Organization (ccNSO), the Generic Names Supporting Organization (GNSO) and the Security and Stability Advisory Committee (SSAC) have adopted the charter, and are in the process of appointing members. The CWG will have its first meeting (via teleconference) on 6 October at 13.00 UTC, followed by a F2F meeting in Los Angeles during the ICANN meeting (scheduled for Monday 13 October from 12.15 – 13.45 local time (19.15 – 22.45 UTC), with remote participation). Both sessions will be recorded and transcribed.
Background
The National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) has requested that ICANN “convene a multistakeholder process to develop a plan to transition the U.S. government stewardship role” with regard to the IANA Functions and related root zone management. In making its announcement, the NTIA specified that the transition proposal must have broad community support and meet the following principles:
Support and enhance the multistakeholder model
Maintain the security, stability, and resiliency of the Internet DNS
Meet the needs and expectation of the global customers and partners of the IANA services
Maintain the openness of the Internet.
NTIA also specified that it would not accept a proposal that replaces the NTIA role with a government-led or an intergovernmental organization solution.
On June 6 ICANN proposed the creation of an IANA Stewardship Transition Coordination Group (ICG) “responsible for preparing a transition proposal reflecting the differing needs of the various affected parties of the IANA functions.”
It was determined that Stewardship Transition proposals for each of the IANA functions should be developed by the directly affected communities, the IETF and IAB for IANA functions related to Internet Protocol Parameters; the NRO, the ASO, and the RIRs for functions related the management and distribution of numbering resources; and the GNSO and ccNSO for functions related to the Domain Name System. These efforts will inform the work of the ICG, whose responsibility is to develop an overall integrated transition proposal from these autonomously developed components.
Two of IANA’s global directly affected communities, the addressing and Internet protocol parameter communities, have responded to the NTIA’s announcement and the formation of the ICG, by establishing working groups to provide input on their specific needs and expectations with respect to the IANA Stewardship Transition.
This CWG was formed as an integral part of this transition process, and to develop a proposal for the elements of the IANA Stewardship Transition that directly affect the naming community.
This announcement was sourced from :
https://www.icann.org/news/announcement-2014-09-26-en
Afnic Supports Customers Backing New gTLD Projects
Afnic, the company behind .FR extension, invited on September 23,2014 all of its business customers,brand managers and registries involved in new gTLDs for a special “Corp. Day”.
You can read the announcement after the jump :
“As a provider of technical services and solutions for registries, Afnic has backed 17 projects for new top-level domains (TLD) with ICANN, including .aquarelle for the same-name company and the .sncf TLD for the French Railway Board
The day provided an opportunity for Afnic to provide community support by sharing useful information on the day-to-day management of each project and presenting initial feedback from the national and international projects.
Several Afnic departments combined their efforts to make the day a success, including IT, marketing, communications and sales staff.
The morning was devoted to a series of presentations by Afnic representatives (progress report on the deployment of registry clients and on project milestones, registries/ICANN relations, presentation of the infrastructure set up by Afnic, etc.).
The afternoon was devoted to a series of client presentations. Aquarelle and Frogans shared feedback on the .aquarelle and .frogans TLDs, while Guillaume Pahud gave a talk in his capacity as a member of the Brand Registry Group, an organization representing several backers of international projects.”
