Industry news from NetNames

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.

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. 

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:

•  Trade mark protection 
•  TLD demand and economic analysis 
• Security and stability: root zone scaling 
• Potential for malicious conduct

Posted: 26 March 2009

ICANN issued its second draft of the new gTLD Draft Applicant Guidebook on 19 February 2009.
You can see this draft by visiting the link: http://www.icann.org/en/topics/new-gtlds/draft-rfp-clean-18feb09-en.pdf.

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.