Many universities have been snapping up .XXX domains to protect their trademark rights and also their image.Indiana University has joined other universities in registering .XXX domains,in an effort to prevent pornographers from exploiting its name and its trademark.
The University spent $2,200 to register 11 .XXX domains for ten years ,including Indianauniversity.xxx, Hoosiers.xxx and IUPUI.xxx .
Other Universities and schools also rushed to register their .XXX domain names.llinois State University registered IllinoisState.XXX , RedBirds.xxx and StateYourPassion.xxx .Penn State University also acquired four .XXX domain names : Penn State, PSU, Nittany Lions and The Pennsylvania State University,while East Carolina University registered a total of eight .XXX domains,such as eastcarolina.xxx, ecu.xxx,eastcarolinauniversity.xxx,eastcarolinauniversitypirates.xxx and leojenkinscancercenter.xxx .
Another University who decided to protect the school’s trademark from being used pornographers is the University of Notre Dame,who decided to register four .XXX domains,notredame.xxx, universityofnotredame.xxx, fightinirish.xxx and domer.xxx,spending on them $1,319.96 .
Even though many Universities rushed to protect their trademarks and decided to register .xxx domain names,other Universities opted to closely monitor the Internet to see if anyone infringes their trademarks .
You can register here your .XXX domain .
Conference day two of Domain pulse 2012 in Hamburg
Why does the planned international copyright convention ACTA cause a stir in the Internet community? Do we really have to fear that net communication will be increasingly controlled?
Is there a risk of overregulation? And which types of access control are technically feasible already today? How does retained data affect everyday life? Which information is recorded and what can you read from it? What would be the consequences for our society?
The second day of the specialist conference Domain pulse, which was held in Hamburg in 2012, provided interesting statements, forecasts and answers to these and other highly topical issues. More than 350 congress visitors listened to the lectures and international-expert panel discussions that have made the largest annual congress dealing with current topics and trends in the field of Internet and domains in the German-speaking territory an established meeting of the industry. In cooperation with the registries administering the country code Top Level domains of Austria (nic.at) and of Switzerland and Liechtenstein (SWITCH), DENIC, the registry of the German country code TLD .de and this year’s host, held the ninth two-day expert congress Domain pulse.
Hot potatoes: Internet governance, access control and copyright in the web
The second day of the conference, 14 February 2012, centered around Internet governance and network politics. In a high-caliber panel discussion representatives from the Board of Directors of the top-level Internet administration body ICANN, experts from the Enquete Commission “Internet and Digital Society” of the German Bundestag and network activists from the political field controversially discussed the positions held by different stakeholders and critically investigated intended measures. They all agreed that taking political decisions that will affect the public down to everyday life all over the world, without consulting civil society as it is currently happening with ACTA (Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement), were questionable and no longer up to date. Instead of reinforcing traditional copyright ideas that are no longer in line with today’s reality of life, the digital age requires a redefinition of the regulatory framework.
Revealing data traces
Which results things like retained data, being just one aspect of network policy, may yield and thus catapult the vision of George Orwell’s Big Brother into the present time, illustrated Malte Spitz, member of the Executive Board of the German political party Bündnis 90/DIE GRÜNEN, and the visualization expert Michael Kreil: The analyzation of collected data enters a completely new dimension, if – linked in a visual presentation – they make visible individual movement profiles and thus let the glass human being become reality.
News from the industry
Besides these social policy aspects of the Internet, the agenda of the second day further included topics closer related to the industry itself, such as forecasts and trends for the domain market in Germany, Austria, Switzerland and the Netherlands, compiled in the Registrar Atlas 2012 on the basis of a study executed by the eco Names & Numbers Forum of the Association of the German Internet Industry, and the benefits of agile methods, like Kanban and Scrum, applied in software development and IP operation.
Providers under fire: about obligations and liability claims
Joerg Heidrich, specialist lawyer for IT law and legal counsel from the Heise publishing house concluded the multi-faceted congress with legal considerations: In his presentation about legal risks in the domain environment he illustrated the present legal situation in Germany and some other countries at the practical example of current rulings related to liabilities of registries and providers.
The topics of day one
The first conference day (13 February 2012) focused on the change of the conception of man and the world of work due to the “Internet as the operating system of society”, technical approaches and potential development scenarios of the World Wide Web in the next years, measures that can be taken to combat the increasing monopolization of online knowledge, prospects and the current situation with regard to the new address endings in the Internet (Top Level Domains), use patterns of Internet domains and how to get out of the online addiction trap. You will find a brief summary of the most important agenda items a brief summary of the most important agenda items in the press release.
Domain pulse on the Internet
You will find the complete program of the specialist congress and all information about the protagonists involved on DENIC’s event website www.domainpulse.de. About one week after the event, we will also make available live recordings as a retrospective of the event.
An arbitrator with the National Arbitration Forum,has awarded GooglePatents.com domain name to Google.The company,submitted a complaint to the National Arbitration Forum,on December 23,2011,asserting legal rights over the disputed domain name .
Google owns many the “Google” trademark with the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO)among many others.Therefore,they contended and managed to demonstrate that GooglePatents.com is confusingly similar to its trademark.Moreover,Google contended in the complaint that the respondent registered and used the disputed domain name in bad faith :
“Complainant argues and submits evidence to show that Respondent previously used the disputed domain name to provide content unrelated to Complainant while proclaiming that the site visitor was the “Google Winner” for the day. Subsequently the Internet user was offered a giveaway if it completed certain offers and entered an e-mail address. Complainant claims that Respondent received some sort of affiliate or other revenue from this use, and Respondent has not contradicted this argument with a Response. “
The respondent failed to submit a response in this proceeding.
The Panel ordered the disputed domain name to be transferred from to respondent to complainant.
You can read the decision here .
