Research commissioned by Nominet reveals that signing up to even the most basic of online services could mean reading over 20,000 words of contractual agreements.
The study ‘Regulation by Contract’ carried out by the Oxford Internet Institute will be presented at our UK Internet Policy Forum taking place today. It looks at a day in the contractual life of the average UK internet user highlighting how such contracts generally cover similar unacceptable behaviours and positively contribute to a self-governing internet.
The details of the research will be presented by its authors Dr Vicki Nash and Quentin Cregan at Nominet’s UK Internet Policy Forum. The event will also feature an opening address from Lord Richard Allan, Director of Policy at Facebook, as well as a keynote speeches from Vint Cerf, Vice President and Chief Internet Evangelist at Google and Communications Minister Ed Vaizey MP.
You can read an executive summary of the research and the full report here.
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http://www.nominet.org.uk/news/latest/?contentId=9171
An arbitrator with the WIPO Arbitration and Mediation Center has awarded Borcelik.xxx domain name to Borçelik Çelik Sanayi Ticaret Anonim Şirketi of Istanbul.
According to whois records Borcelik.xxx was registered on December 9,2011,three days after the ICM Registry made the .XXX extension available for public sale.
Borcelik company submitted the complaint with the WIPO Arbitration and Mediation Center on January 18,2012,asserting legal rights over the disputed domain name.
Borcelik owns many trademark registrations for the “Borcelik” mark.Therefore,it is more than obvious that the disputed domain name is confusingly similar to its trademark.Moreover,the company contended that the responded registered and used the disputed domain name in bad faith :
“Respondent must have known this trademark when the disputed domain name was created on December 9, 2011.
This assessment is in particular likely as the disputed domain name was registered many years after the Complainant’s trademark BORÇELİK had become registered and recognized in Turkey.
Another indication for bad faith registration and use is that the disputed domain name is fully identical to the Complainant’s trademark BORÇELİK.”
The Panel ordered the disputed domain name to be transferred from the respondent to the complainant.
You can read the decision here .
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) announced that there are 556 successful registrants in the online new generic Top Level Domain Application System.
Even though there are 556 TLD Application,this number does not necessarily represents the total number of applications.Each registrant can apply for up to 50 new generic Top-Level Domains (gTLD). The registration deadline is now less than four weeks away.
ICANN started accepting applications for new gTLDs on January 12,2012.Moreover,ICANN announced that it will not reveal who the applicants are and who has applied for which domain name until early May,2012. The application period will close April 12,2012 .
Last week,ICANN announced that it has 290 registered users in its Top-Level Domain Application System.This means that it has added 266 new gTLD applicants in a week.
For more information on the new gTLD programme,check out :
Programme Overview
Frequently Asked Questions
