Apple Files UDRP Complaint for Five Domain Names

Apple filed a UDRP complaint with the World Intellectual Property ,asserting legal rights over five domain names .

 

The five disputed domain names are :

myappleid.com

myappleid.info

myappleid.mobi

myicloudid.com

myiphoneid.com

Apple should expect the World Intellectual Property Organization  order the domain names to be transferred,considering the company owns many trademark registrations for the “Apple” , “iCloud” and “iPhone” marks all over the world.

The World Intellectual Property Organization will examine if the domain names are confusingly similar to the trademarked name.Moreover,it will examine if the owner of the disputed domain names has rights over it and if the domains are being used in bad faith.The disputed domain names will be passed over to Apple if it falls under all three of these stipulations.

The case is still pending compliance checks with the World Intellectual Property Organization .

 

ICANN : ICANN Whois Privacy/Proxy Abuse Study Findings Webinar Invitation

ICANN invites you to participate in a webinar about the recently released Whois Privacy/Proxy Abuse Study, conducted for ICANN by the National Physical Laboratory (NPL) in the United Kingdom. 

 

This study has now been published for public comment, and community feedback is being invited in order to assist ICANN with evaluating potential changes to Whois policy and the use of privacy/proxy services.

The study was commissioned by the GNSO to help the ICANN community understand the role that privacy and proxy service abuse plays in obscuring the identities of parties engaged in illegal or harmful activities, including phishing, cybersquatting, hosting child abuse sexual images, advanced fee fraud, and the online sale of counterfeit pharmaceuticals. NPL was engaged to analyze domain names across the top five gTLDs – .biz, .com, .info, .net and .org – to measure whether the percentage of privacy/proxy use among domains engaged in illegal or harmful Internet activities is significantly greater than among domain names used for lawful Internet activities.

NPL’s chief investigator on the study, Dr. Richard Clayton of the University of Cambridge, and ICANN staff will provide a briefing on Tuesday 15 October at 12.00 UTC and 19.00 UTC, summarizing NPL’s findings and conclusions based on the data they collected and analyzed. Amongst other topics, Dr. Clayton will discuss:

NPL’s methodology for the study and the hypothesis tested;

The different project activities and work packages undertaken for the study;

NPL’s statistical analysis of the data sampled for the study, including comparative differences observed by the research team; and

NPL’s conclusions based on the results of its analysis.

The two sessions are duplicates, scheduled to accommodate different time zones. Each session, scheduled to run for sixty (60) minutes, will be conducted in English only. The meeting will be run in Adobe Connect with a slide presentation along with a dial-in conference bridge for audio.

Participants will have the opportunity to ask questions at the end of each session. During the course of the webinar, questions may also be submitted using the chat function of Adobe Connect. If you are not able to participate in either of the live sessions, the recording of the session will be made available shortly after the meeting. The policy staff is always available to answer any questions that you email to
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In order to participate, please RSVP via email to the GNSO Secretariat (
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) to receive the call details. Please indicate which call you would like to join on Tuesday 15 October – at 12.00 UTC or at 19.00 UTC (to convert those times into your local time, see: http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedform.html). We will send you an e-mail reminder before the event with log-in and dial-in details. Please DO NOT RSVP to any other ICANN staff member’s e-mail address.

This announcement was sourced from :

http://www.icann.org/en/news/announcements/announcement-27sep13-en.htm

 

AFNIC : Be one of the first domain names to use the new .Paris gTLD

Afnic,the company behind .FR extension,announced that the Paris City Hall has launched two calls for proposals to select the first 100 domains to use the .PARIS gTLD.

 

You can read the announcement after the jump :

“Two calls for proposals have been launched to select the first 100 domain names to use the .paris gTLD. Applicants are invited to register on mondomaine.paris.fr to be among the first 100 to use the .paris gTLD for their website. The calls for proposals represent a unique opportunity for applicants to benefit in advance from the brand image and goodwill represented by the new namespace for the .paris gTLD.

•  The first call for proposals will allow applicants to have a domain name corresponding to their business or brand, with conditions appropriate to their status (major corporations, institutions, SMEs, startups, association, blogger, etc.). As well as gaining an exclusive domain name and high visibility, these pioneers will become ambassadors for the .paris gTLD and participate with Paris City Hall in building up recognition for the new namespace.
•  The 2nd call for proposals will allow candidates to introduce new intuitive and innovative services using domain names with the .paris gTLD, such as visite.paris or transport.paris.

 Applicants have until December 16, 2013 to file their domain name application, which will then be assessed according to various criteria.  The first domain names with the .paris gTLD are scheduled go live in the second half of 2014.

 The .paris gTLD is one of the 17 gTLD projects backed by Afnic as the technical registry operator.”

Check out EuroDNS to register your .FR domain name .

 

 

 

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