.CLUB announces Trademark Sentry, a registry-specific blocking service that will allow the owner of a US-registered trade mark to block that mark appearing within any portion of a .CLUB domain name, thereby protecting, according to the registry, “trillions of permutations of a qualified trademark”.
On 24 April the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) released their 2018 Annual Report: Once Upon a Year. The IWF is an independent self-regulated organisation with a vision to eliminate child sexual abuse online. The remit of the IWF is to remove child sexual abuse content hosted anywhere in the world, and non-photographic child sexual abuse images hosted in the United Kingdom.
Nick Wood, Executive Chairman & Co-Founder, reflects on Intellectual Property and Sport for World IP Day 2019.
More than 300 legal and brand professionals from 49 countries across five continents gathered March 28 and 29 to attend INTA’s 2019 March Conference in New York. Ken Taylor, our Director of Business Development, summarises the main discussion points.
ICANN is planning to renew four ‘legacy’ TLD contracts (.ORG, .INFO, .ASIA, .BIZ), which it has issued for public comment following renewal negotiations with the registry operators.
The auDA, which operates .au, the Australian country code Top Level Domain (ccTLD) recently announced a policy amendment in an effort to curb domaining in the .au namespace.
The number of domain registrations has risen year on year by 4.9% according to the latest industry data from Verisign’s Domain Name Industry Brief
This article discusses the real issue with ICANN’s current policy development process which needs to be addressed before the introduction of the PDP 3.0 changes.
Update on .eu domains and Brexit
EURid, the Registry for .eu domain names, has issued a communication as a result of the announced delay to Brexit.
After Brexit, domain owners in the UK may find that they can no longer hold domains with a ccTLD extension for an EU country.