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TLDCON 2014 : New Domain Names Are Changing the Nature of the Domain Business
During the TLDCON 2014 conference, the issue of new domain names was raised and discussed. The discussion was moderated by Andrei Voroboy.
You can read the announcement after the jump:
” The issue of new domains, which was first raised during the opening of the TLDCON 2014 conference, was discussed in detail by the panel, New gTLD, First Results, which was moderated by Andrei Vorobyov (RU-CENTER). The panel brought together participants representing the registries of new domains and ICANN. They shared their views on the program’s progress and prospects. Vorobyov said that it’s still too early to sum up the initial results of the program. Open registration hasn’t yet started in most domains, so program participants can only share their first impressions.
Marina Nikerova (TCI) talked about changes in the relationship between registries and registrars over the last year, as well as the growing role of specialized technical service centers. TCI is one such center, supporting seven Russian domains. In addition, Nikerova presented to the conference participants a cultural and linguistic domain, .TATAR. Its priority registration began on August 28. Intended for the global Tatar community, the domain receives strong support from the government of the Republic of Tatarstan. The history of the .РФ domain shows that such support could play an important role in promoting the new top-level domain.
Dmitry Burkov (.MOSCOW / .МОСКВА), Irina Daneliya (.ДЕТИ), Patrick Jones (ICANN), Tatyana Ivanova (.САЙТ, .ОНЛАЙН), Fyodor Smirnov (.РУС) and Ronald Schwärzler (.WIEN ) also joined the panel discussion.
Supporting and promoting top-level domains requires concerted actions by registries and registrars. Olga Alexandrova-Myasina (ccTLD .RU / .РФ), moderator of the Interaction between Registries and Registrars, encouraged the participants to talk about the things the registries do to stimulate marketing programs, and how they stimulate registrars to sell domain names that are specifically in their domains. The question was not accidental, since many registrars that have the capability of offering clients names in new top-level domains have focused their efforts on this program, and pay less attention to promoting traditional domains.
The meeting participants shared their experiences in this area. Vuksan Rajkovic (.ME Registry) spoke about the policy pursued by the ME domain registry, which positions this domain as being international and personal. Francesco Cetraro (Afilias) said that traditional domain registries must learn to live in a new world, where new domains allow unlimited choices for users. He believes that the success of a registrar’s business largely depends on its ability to choose the right domain for the client. The .ДЕТИ domain registry – the work of which was presented by Irina Daneliya – in addition to traditional marketing programs, offered registrars in the domain joint participation in the World of Childhood exhibition, where the .ДЕТИ domain put up a large stand and offered a program for visitors. Fyodor Smirnov’s remarks (.РУС) caused great interest from participants. The .РУС domain has not yet been delegated, so the registry can take advantage of the experience of other new domains as it drafts a program to promote this domain. Maxim Alzoba shared his experience in promoting the domain .MOSCOW / .МОСКВА.
Discussions about how registries and registrars will operate in new market conditions continued at the Registrar Business, New Models of Interaction with the Users panel, which was moderated by Mikhail Anisimov (ccTLD .RU / .РФ). According to the participants, traditional domain areas often get lost among the multitude of new domains offered on registrars’ websites. Therefore, the nature of the registrar business is being redefined, since registration of domain names is not profitable enough, and there’s a need to develop new services, such as legal protection of domain names. Andrei Vorobyov (RU-CENTER), Viktor Kustein (Regtons.COM), Alexander Overchenko (Sedo), Clifford deSauza (LogicBoxes) and Fyodor Smirnov (Webnames) shared their vision of future business development.”
ICANN Staff provides Update on First Round of New gTLDs and the Path Forward to a Second Round by Philip Corwin, Internet Commerce Association
In late August the GNSO Council received an ICANN staff response to a Resolution on subsequent rounds of new gTLDs passed during its June meeting in London.
At the time the response was issued only 373 gTLDs had been delegated out of the 1321 total applications being processed. So the first round of the program still has a long way to go and the jury is very much out on analyzing its successes, failures, unexpected issues, and overall market demand and acceptance.
ICA’s primary focus during the development of the Applicant Guidebook (AG) for the first round was on assuring that the new rights protection measures (RPMs) – the Trademark Clearinghouse (TMCH) and Uniform Rapid Suspension (URS) – treated registrants fairly, communicated clearly and effectively, and provided acceptable procedural and substantive due process. Overall registrations in the TMCH have been lower than anticipated and, surprisingly, the traditional UDRP is being used as an arbitration tool for alleged infringement at new gTLDs more than the URS despite the latter’s speedier and less costly administration. Section (d) of the staff response focuses on those RPMs, and reveals that staff has been analyzing the performance of all of them to inform an Issues Report process that will commence in April 2015. That Issues Report could well lead to a UDRP reform process that is long overdue – and in which ICA intends to be fully involved.
The response also notes that the Council’s Resolution called for the launching of a Discussion Group on new gTLDs and future rounds, and it held its first conference call this past week. ICA has joined that Group and we have already seen dozens of questions and topics submitted for its consideration. While the staff response does not suggest a timetable for subsequent rounds of new gTLDs, the best estimates we are seeing are that it would not likely occur before 2017. Of course, the results of the first round will have great bearing on AG modifications in subsequent rounds as well as the willingness of new applicants to make the hefty required financial commitment.
Here is the text of the staff response:
I wanted to provide an update on the request for a status report from staff as part of the GNSO Council’s motion on New gTLD Subsequent Rounds during the ICANN 50 meeting in London (http://gnso.icann.org/en/council/resolutions#201406). This included status reporting on: (a) the New gTLD program generally; (b) ICANN’s anticipated timeline and work plan for the review specified in Section 9.3 of the Affirmation of Commitments; (c) ICANN’s work to date on any evaluation of the first round; (d) the work to date on the post-launch independent review of the Trademark Clearinghouse; and (e) ICANN’s current projection for a timetable for subsequent rounds.
This relates to a number of activities that are under way and we expect to be able to deliver the complete report in mid-September. Here are some notes and updates on each of the points below:
(a) The New gTLD Program generally
As of last week, 373 TLDs have been delegated, 491 applicants have entered registry agreements, and 1321 applications are currently in process through the program. Updated statistics are published on a weekly basis at http://newgtlds.icann.org/en/program-status/statistics, with the detail according to volume of applications within the various stages. If there are any specific points that the GNSO would like covered in the portion of the report on the status of the program, please let me know.
(b) ICANN’s anticipated timeline and work plan for the review specified in Section 9.3 of the Affirmation of Commitments
Preparations for this review have been under way for some time, beginning with the Board’s request for advice from the ALAC, GAC, GNSO and ccNSO on establishing definitions, measures, and targets for competition, consumer trust and consumer choice in the context of the DNS (https://www.icann.org/resources/board-material/resolutions-2010-12-10-en#6). This resulted in recommendations from both the GNSO and ALAC, whereupon the Board formed the Implementation Advisory Group on Competition, Consumer Trust, and Consumer Choice (IAG-CCT) in September 2013 to review those recommended metrics and make recommendations to the review team based on an evaluation of the feasibility, utility and cost-effectiveness of each of the proposed 70 metrics. The IAG-CCT has paid particular attention to baselines, to ensure that data is collected that will be important for benchmarking the impact of the New gTLD Program in these areas. The IAG-CCT provided an interim recommendation for a consumer survey and an economic study to help capture baseline data; this recommendation was approved by the Board in March 2014 (https://www.icann.org/resources/board-material/resolutions-2014-03-27-en#2.c). The Final Report of the IAG-CCT is expected to be provided to the Board in October, for consideration during the ICANN 51 meeting in Los Angeles.
ICANN is conducting an open RFP process to engage providers for the consumer survey (see https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/rfps-2012-02-25-en), and the RFP is in development for the economic study and expected to be published within the next two weeks. For the additional set of metrics recommended where baselines are necessary, and that relate to in-house data, staff is already in the process of compiling the data as well as planning for tools for update and presentation of that data.
In addition to the areas of competition, consumer trust, and consumer choice, the review in 9.3 of the Affirmation of Commitments includes review of the effectiveness of the application and evaluation process, and of safeguards put in place in the program to mitigate issues. These relate to areas discussed below in (c) and (d).
(c) ICANN’s work to date on any evaluation of the first round
Staff’s work in reviewing the program to date has focused on operations, efficiency, and cost-effectiveness. We’ve also identified a preliminary set of review areas that would benefit from in-depth discussions about these elements of the program’s implementation. As reviewing the program’s operations covers a large number of detailed considerations across a broad range of topics, we are still determining how to best organize the subject areas and review questions so that they can be logically considered and presented to the community for input. To date, staff has held debriefing sessions with all of the panels who performed the Initial and Extended Evaluation processes so that these provider insights and identification of areas for additional consideration can also be taken into account.
(d) The work to date on the post-launch independent review of the Trademark Clearinghouse
This comes from GAC advice, where an independent review was proposed to take place “one year after the launch of the 75th new gTLD in the round.” (This would be February 2015, which is the current target for this review.) A few other activities are in process relating to rights protection that are also relevant. First is a standing GNSO request for an Issue Report reviewing all rights protection mechanisms (current and developed for the New gTLD Program) including the UDRP and URS, to be delivered 18 months after the first delegation of new gTLDs (which occurred in October 2013). We are on target to have significant analysis done by this time (April 2015) to inform the creation of this Issue Report. Second, as noted above, effectiveness of the safeguards put in place for the New gTLD Program is a topic for consideration under the 9.3 Affirmation of Commitments review, and the analysis in progress is expected to be another input to that effort. In light of the above, staff is well under way in compiling data on the usage of the new rights protection mechanisms in the program (e.g., provider statistics, review of frequent customer service questions, issues raised in user feedback) and expects that this analysis will serve as groundwork for a number of purposes, including the above independent review. A discussion session on this topic is slated for the ICANN 51 meeting in Los Angeles.
(e) ICANN’s current projection for a timetable for subsequent rounds
These projections are still in process. As many of these activities are interrelated, sequencing and scheduling the activities in a logical and efficient way can take several paths. Additional activities, such as a root stability review, have not been discussed in the topics above but also have an impact. We do expect to publish a projected overall timetable, as well as timelines for the individual tracks mentioned here, and will make sure that this is included in the report to be delivered.
Also, we note that the Discussion Group formed by the GNSO motion referenced above has been convened and intends to work on issue identification and categorization as a preface to any policy development work that may be pursued by the GNSO, and will follow those developments closely.
Best regards,
Karen Lentz
Director, Operations & Policy Research
ICANN
This article by Philip Corwin from the Internet Commerce Association was sourced with permission from:
http://www.internetcommerce.org/staff-update-gtlds/
Yahoo Wins ToHackYahoo.com Domain Name in Arbitration
An arbitrator with the National Arbitration Forum has recently awarded the domain name ToHackYahoo.com to Yahoo.The company submitted the complaint on July 16,2014.
According to whois records, the domain name was first registered in April 2014.
Yahoo owns many trademark registrations for the “Yahoo” mark all over the world.Therefore,it is more than obvious that the disputed domain name is confusingly similar with its trademark .Moreover,the company contended in the complaint that the respondent has no rights or legitimate interests in the disputed domain name and that the respondent registered and used the disputed domain name in bad faith .
One of the key points of this complaint was when Yahoo managed to demonstrate that the respondent registered and used the disputed domain name in bad faith,by offering hacking application and malicious software on the website
Yahoo managed to establish all three elements required under the ICANN Policy and the Panel ordered the disputed domain name to be transferred from the respondent to the complainant.
You can read the decision here .
TLDCON 2014 : Domain Names are the cornerstone of the Internet
The seventh annual conference of ccTLD registries and registrars of the Central and Eastern European countries and CIS , was held in Baku,Azerbaijan.
The conference opened on September 10,2014 and ended yesterday, September 12,2014.There were over 100 delegates from 24 countries .
The conference was held by the Coordination Center for TLD RU/РФ and the Technical Center of Internet. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) supported the companies in organizing the conference.
You can read the announcement after the jump :
“The 7th annual conference of ccTLD registries and registrars of the CIS and Central and Eastern European countries, TLDCON 2014, opened in Baku, Azerbaijan on September 10. Over 100 delegates from 24 countries will spend two days hearing nearly 40 reports and discussing the most important issues of the domain industry.
The conference was organized by the Coordination Center for TLD RU/РФ (CC for TLD RU/РФ) and the Technical Center of Internet with support from the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). The host is Azerbaijan’s Ministry of Communications and High Technologies.
Andrey Kolesnikov, Director of the Coordination Center for TLD RU/РФ, said the TLDCON conference is evidence of the Internet community’s stability, and its interest in domain issues. He also spoke about how the appearance of hundreds of top-level domains is influencing the domain industry. Mr Kolesnikov pointed to a decline in the growth rate of many ccTLDs, which he explained by the global economic situation rather than the appearance of new domains. He also referenced such causes as changes in the search algorithms of the largest search engines and the fact that registrars channel part of their marketing efforts toward promoting new TLDs.
“Domains are the cornerstone of the Internet,” said Elena Voronina, Director of MSK-IX. “But this is more than just business processes, because it also concerns technology.” Elena Voronina believes that a domain’s success depends on the choice of technology and on smooth operation, and that TLDCON is a good venue for discussing this highly important issue for the domain industry.
Deputy Director General of TCI Marina Nikerova said she shared this view. Managing Director of RIPE NCC Axel Pawlik noted the variety of issues on the conference agenda and said that TLDCON was helping to boost cooperation between various Internet communities.
Deputy Minister of Communications and Information Technologies of Azerbaijan Elmir Valizade spoke about the development of the Internet in Azerbaijan. He believes that cooperation between all countries is crucial for the global development of the Internet and its security.
Director of Azerbaijan’s national registrar Faig Farmanov conducted a presentation of the .AZ domain.”
