29 January 2009, London – Brand monitoring and domain name management experts, NetNames, today launches ImageFlare, a tool to capture misrepresentations of corporate logos online. In response to the rapid growth of cybercrime and logo abuse, ImageFlare offers customers and prospects valuable and manageable insight into infringements against their logos, so that companies can deal with the most severe cases effectively.
read more| IRT Final Report on trade mark protection in new gTLDs Posted: 1 June 2009 On 29 May 2009, ICANN’s Implementation Recommendation Team (IRT) posted its Final Report on trade mark protection in new gTLDs . This report will be posted for a thirty (30) day comment period which will close on 29 June 2009. In the process of developing its recommendations, the IRT consulted with WIPO and the broader community, and evaluated the public comments received in response to the posting of the initial Draft IRT Report. Read Article |
NetNames responds to trade mark protection plans in the proposed new gTLDs Posted: 7 May 2009 As a key player in the global domain name management and brand protection industry, NetNames has responded to ICANN’s call for public comments on the plans to protect trade mark owners within the proposed new generic top level domain names. The draft report from ICANN's implementation reccommendation team (IRT) report was issued on 24 April 2009. Read Article |
| Trade mark protection in the proposed new gTLDs Posted: 28 April 2009 ICANN is firmly committed to implementing its new top level domain name (gTLD) program. However, there are four “Overarching Issues" that have been specifically identified by ICANN as needing to be dealt with as follows:
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Have your say on the latest gTLD Draft Applicant Guidebook Posted: 26 March 2009 ICANN issued its second draft of the new gTLD Draft Applicant Guidebook on 19 February 2009. Before the second draft of the Guidebook was published, ICANN requested feedback about the contents of the first Guidebook. Many of the comments received then led to revisions which are now included in the latest Guidebook draft. Read Article |