Warner Bros. Registers Multiple Domains for “Batman vs. Superman” movie titles

The new movie Warner Bros. will release in 2015 will bring together Batman and Superman. That’s why everyone,including Warner Bros. executives,employees and producers has been calling it “Batman vs. Superman”

 

Warner Bros has never confirmed the title. However,the company has given a hint of what the upcoming “Batman vs Superman” movie will be titles, when they registered several domain names.

According to Fusible ,possible titles include: Man of Steel Darkness Falls

Man of Steel Knight Falls

Man of Steel Shadow of the Night

Man of Steel The Blackest Hour

Man of Steel The Darkness Within

Man of Steel Battle the Knight

Man of Steel Beyond Darkness

Man of Steel Black of Knight

Moreover,the company also registered shorter variations of the names,including:

Battle the Knight

Black of Knight

Knight Falls

The Blackest Hour

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Servers.com Domain Name Sells for $300,000

XBT has recently acquired the domain name Servers.com for $300,000 through Root S.A.,Luxembourg’s leading provider located in the heart of Europe.

 

The domain name was acquired for $300,000 in an auction ,which took place in Dallas US.

You can read the press release after the jump:

“Servers.com, the talk of hosting domain name professionals for many years, finally found its rightful place at XBT, one of the largest dedicated hosting, IP Transit and colocation provider of the European Union. The domain name was acquired for 300.000 US dollars as a highest bid in an auction, which took place in Dallas US.

Through ROOT S.A., XBT has been dominating the european market and with an aggressive acquisitions strategy in US and Asia is now ready to expand further and become the one-stop professional source for corporate server infrastructure outsourcing, high-load web hosting and data handling.

ROOT S.A. is Luxembourg’s leading provider located in the heart of Europe, offering servers with direct and low latency connectivity to London, Frankfurt, Amsterdam, Madrid and Paris.

The company’s client portfolio boasts a vast range of demanding institutions, from high frequency Forex trading arbitrage firms to online gaming and video streaming companies for whom low latency and security is a prerequisite. XBT has developed advanced expertise in developing and implementing secure and resilient server infrastructure for its customers in the most demanding industries.

After many years of development and intensive testing, XBT has finalized solid methods for scaling its boutique enterprise offerings up to a much larger audience improving the overall quality of service, combined with blazing fast technical support, zealous customer service and monitoring. All of those key features together with new pricing policy, scaled up to meet surging global demand making new Servers.com platform as the European standard for quality and security at a fair price.

“Servers.com domain name acquisition will help create an automated and standardized hosting platform for small to medium scale business customers (SMB). The platform will offer much greater diversity of service formats in one package, which gives the customers all the needed solutions and business tools under one roof, including flexible targeting and service pricing based on user’s action data analysis. The new domain name will let us consolidate our regional brands in one”, said Rajesh Kumar Mishra, CFO of XBT Holding Ltd.|

 

 

 

ICANN to Release Nine new gTLDs

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has recently released details of nine new publicly available new gTLDs,including .Bike, .Guru and .Singles.

 

Only companies with registered trademarks can sign up for a new gTLD for now.However, they will be available for general sale at the end of January,2014.

The nine new top-level domain names that will be available for sale are:

.Ventures

.Camera

.Lighting

.Voyage

.Equipment

.Bike

.Guru

.Singles

.Clothing

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) will release new domains at the rate of 10 a week. This way,ICANN will manage to roll out about 1,400 new top-level domain names over the next few years.

 

 

 

 

What Do the .XXX Disputes Tell Us About Internet Governance? ICANN’s Legitimacy Deficit in Context by David Lindsay [Telecommunications Journal of Australia]

Abstract: ICANN … as a non-state actor, with no clear source of authority under international law, ICANN has weak claims to formal legitimacy. To bolster its normative claims to legitimacy, ICANN has introduced internal structural and procedural safeguards to ensure transparency and accountability.

Its structural safeguards, based on the multi-stakeholder model, entrench roles for governments, the private sector and civil society in the policy-making process. The privileged position given to government representatives in the Governmental Advisory Committee (GAC) enhances ICANN’s weak claims to legitimacy, but risks undermining procedural safeguards through undue government influence. ICANN’s procedural safeguards include requirements to act openly, transparently and fairly, and incorporate an independent review mechanism.

This article evaluates ICANN’s claims to legitimacy by means of a case study of the process for approving the controversial .XXX gTLD. An analysis of the disputes involving .XXX reveals flaws with ICANN’s structural and procedural safeguards. As this article argues, however, ICANN’s weak claims to legitimacy do not necessarily mean that DNS management and policy-making should be transferred to an international treaty-based organisation. In a time when concepts of legitimacy are in transition, with traditional concepts being challenged and new concepts yet to fully emerge, all international organisations must continually negotiate their legitimacy with networks of stakeholders. While ICANN’s weak legitimacy will result in ongoing challenges to its key management and policy-making roles, attention should focus on improving its mechanisms for accountability and transparency, as well as the organisation’s competence and effectiveness.

This article is available for download from the Social Science Research Network website at:
ssrn.com/abstract=2361246

EURid Launches Win A Holiday For Registering A .EU Domain

Commencing 25 November, EURid launched their promotion to win one of three fabulous holidays they are giving away in their Christmas competition for .eu domain name holders.