Microsoft Wins 13 Bing-related Domain Name in UDRP

Microsoft has obtained 13 Bing -related domain names ,after filling a domain name dispute with the National Arbitration Forum .

The 13 disputed domain names are :

bing119.com

bing1314.com

bing168.com

bing911.com

bingaudio.com

bingbaidu.com

bingbio.com

bingbrazil.com

bingegypt.com

bingface.com

bingfrance.com

bingspain.com

bingvision.com

The company owns many trademark registrations for the “Bing” mark all over the wolrd.Therefore,it is more than obvious that the disputed domain names are confusingly similar to Microsoft’s trademark .

Ten of the disputed domain names were registered on May,2009 and three of them were registered on May ,2011.The respondent in this case is Chiou Ji-an aka none / Qiu Ji-an from Taiwa

More Than Half World’s Most Innovative Companies Applied For gTLD

Over half of the world’s most innovative companies have applied for a gTLD. Using the Boston Consulting Group’s (BCG) Most Innovative Companies survey for 2013, FairWindnds Partners checked out how many of the top 50 had applied for a gTLD.

FairWinds found 28 of the top 50 had applied and 16 had applied for more than one gTLD. And “seven of the top 10 innovative Companies applied for a total of 194 new extensions, including Apple’s .apple, Amazon’s .imdb and Google’s .chrome.”

The “most innovative also invested the most: BCG’s third most innovative company – Google – applied for 101 new TLDs while the seventh most innovative company, Amazon, applied for 76.”

“This isn’t a coincidence,” said Taylor Frank, VP of Strategy and Development at FairWinds Partners on FairWinds’ gTLD Strategy blog. “Tech, search, e-commerce and automotive companies are going to do very well with their new gTLDs, whether they applied for their .BRAND, a .GENERIC, or both.”

Frank went on to explain that these new extensions are fertile ground for new business models and innovative approaches to community engagement, brand protection, human resources, and product development.

“The more interesting question is not whether there’s a relationship between being the most innovative and having applied for a new gTLD but whether companies that didn’t apply for a new gTLD will hold their ranking come next year.”

Sedo Reports $970 in Domain Name Sales ! CBS.de Topped Sedo’s weekly Sales List at 22,015 EUR

CBS.net topped Sedo’s weekly sales chart at 22,015 EUR.Highlights also include Chriskay.com,leading the .COM category at 22,000 EUR and Epargne.net,leading the “Other” category at 4,500 EUR.

Other notable domain name sales include :

.COM

dxmall.com 19,000 USD

neowin.com 15,000 USD

borrower.com 10,000 USD

harmoney.com 8,500 USD

boxnotes.com 8,000 EUR

locality.com 8,000 USD

prosip.com 8,000 USD

condomkingdom.com 8,000 USD

mki.com 7,900 EUR

aliced.com 7,500 EUR

icedrive.com 7,000 USD

q0.com 7,000 USD

milklife.com 7,000 USD

holisticsex.com 6,536 USD

prokat.com 6,500 USD

jwinc.com 5,000 USD

europeangroup.com 5,000 USD

bdsmcams.com 5,000 USD

get3d.com 4,995 USD

gnk.com 4,600 EUR

maritimeservices.com 4,500 USD

elevati.com 4,000 USD

technomak.com 3,950 EUR

visitlaos.com 3,875 USD

lazeo.com 3,800 EUR

homeforhope.com 3,750 USD

assurance-de-credit.com 3,700 EUR

gyra.com 3,500 USD

cashremit.com 3,500 USD

primenutrition.com 3,250 USD

brandkings.com 3,200 USD

uxz.com 3,099 EUR

carabiner.com 3,000 USD

torrancedentist.com 3,000 USD

legionofboom.com 3,000 USD

maureenohara.com 3,000 USD

ccTLD

grippe.de 13,833 EUR

cloud.at 11,000 EUR

bistrot.fr 10,000 EUR

cloud.to 10,000 USD

blackjack-music.de 6,500 EUR

goodgame.co.uk 5,500 USD

goodgames.co.uk 5,500 USD

huber.ch 4,700 EUR

wroom.se 3,900 USD

esport.tv 3,500 EUR

mahjong.ro 3,500 EUR

garedelyon.fr 3,400 EUR

pop.jp 3,200 USD

scarabeo.it 3,000 EUR

horseware.de 3,000 EUR

shell.si 3,000 USD

livingstone.co.uk 3,000 USD

hostzilla.de 3,000 USD

Other

creativ.net 3,250 USD

srk.org 2,500 GBP

amortization.org 2,250 USD

accessible.net 2,000 USD

scoliosistreatment.org 2,000 USD

sophisticated.net 1,740 USD

mountain.travel 1,500 USD

icf.info 1,500 USD

how-to-draw.net 1,000 USD

dalkia.org 1,000 EUR

urania.org 785 USD

alarmes.net 750 EUR

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ICANN : NGPC Resolution for Addressing the Consequences of Name Collisions

At its 18 May 2013 meeting, the ICANN Board adopted a resolution to commission a study to identify the levels of potential impact posed by each applied-for new gTLD on the use of TLDs that are not currently delegated at the root level of the public DNS.

The study, “Name Collision in the DNS,” together with a proposal to manage the risks identified in the study, was published for public comment from 5 August 2013 to 17 September 2013. During the public comment period, 75 comments were received. Based on the public comments, staff updated the proposal to manage the risks identified in the study. The report of these public comments is available at: http://forum.icann.org/lists/comments-name-collision-05aug13/.

The ICANN Board New gTLD Program Committee (NGPC) met on 28 September 2013 to review and discuss a proposal on how to deal with name collisions. On 7 October 2013, the NGPC met again and approved an updated proposal, titled “New gTLD Collision Occurrence Management Plan,” [PDF, 840 KB] to mitigate the risks of potential name collisions caused by the introduction of new gTLDs.

The Collision Occurrence Management Plan directs staff to undertake an additional study to develop a name collision occurrence management framework. The framework will include appropriate parameters and processes to assess both probability and severity of harm resulting from the occurrence of name collisions. Examples of the parameters might include number of DNS requests, type of DNS requests, type of queries, diversity of query source and appearances in internal name certificates. The framework will specify a set of collision occurrence assessments and corresponding mitigation measures, if any, that ICANN or TLD applicants may need to implement per second level domain name (SLD) seen in the “day in the life of the Internet” (DITL) dataset.

Additionally, the plan provides a registry operator with the option to proceed to delegation prior to receiving its SLD collision occurrence assessment report (subject to established processes and procedures). If the registry operator chooses this alternative path to delegation, it must initially block all SLDs that appear in the DITL dataset while the assessment is conducted

An additional feature of the plan requires establishment of a process by each TLD operator to enable an affected party(ies) to report and request the blocking of an SLD that causes demonstrably severe harm as a consequence of name collision occurrences. This process is intended to mitigate the risk that collision occurrences from additional SLDs not observed in the study dataset could have severe impact.

The plan also includes an outreach campaign targeted to potentially affected parties to help them identify and manage the origins (causes) of name collision occurrences in their networks. As part of the outreach campaign, ICANN, under the direction of the President and CEO, will invite and collaborate with relevant parties and members of the community that share the same interest in making progress in this issue.

At its 7 October meeting, the NGPC also recommended to the ICANN Board that the issue of name collisions be monitored by the Board’s Risk Committee and reviewed periodically, and that ICANN work with the community in developing a long-term plan to retain and measure root-server data.

For more information about the NGPC, please visit: http://www.icann.org/en/groups/board/new-gtld

This announcement was sourced from :

http://www.icann.org/en/news/announcements/announcement-08oct13-en.htm