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The 2012 World Conference on International Telecommunications: another brewing storm over potential UN regulation of the internet

  • Wiley Rein LLP
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  • Global
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  • November 29 2011

Once again, many companies in the telecoms and information and communications technology (ICT) sector are facing the spectre of a United Nations agency (in this case the International Telecommunication Union (ITU)) regulating critically important aspects of the internet as well as substantially expanding its jurisdiction over the telecoms and ICT industries

Protect your brand in "triple x" domain by October 28

  • Wiley Rein LLP
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  • Global
  • -
  • September 26 2011

For many companies, including government contractors, their brand is one of their most important assets

New domain names are coming, and present opportunities and risks

  • Wiley Rein LLP
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  • Global
  • -
  • June 22 2011

On June 20, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) formally approved the program it has developed for creation of new generic top-level domains (gTLDs

ICANN approves new gTLD launch

  • Wiley Rein LLP
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  • Global
  • -
  • June 20 2011

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN)-a not-for-profit public-benefit corporation which plays a coordination role of the Internet's naming system-today approved the introduction of new generic top level domains (gTLDs) in unlimited numbers

Brand owners brace for potential launch of a .xxx domain registry

  • Wiley Rein LLP
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  • Global
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  • March 16 2011

The January 2011 issue of Mass Media Headlines addressed the likely release in late 2011 or 2012 of customized generic top-level domains (gTLDs) such as .eco, .movie, .wine, .film, .radio, .brand and many more

New generic top-level domains nearing launch date

  • Wiley Rein LLP
  • -
  • Global, USA
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  • January 31 2011

Companies soon will have an opportunity to own a piece of the Internet and control use of their trademarks

The international aspect of the White House "Cyberspace Policy Review"

  • Wiley Rein LLP
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  • Global, USA
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  • June 18 2009

On May 29, 2009, the White House released the "Cyberspace Policy Review," which was the product of a 60-day comprehensive study conducted by the National Security Council and Homeland Security Council and led by Melissa Hathaway, acting Senior Director for Cyberspace for the National Security Council

Facebook allows personal URLs that may infringe trademarks

  • Wiley Rein LLP
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  • Global
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  • June 11 2009

The popular social networking website Facebook publicly announced yesterday that it will be replacing the randomly chosen ID numbers in the URLs for users' profile pages with personally chosen usernames (facebook.comyourname) beginning on Saturday, June 13th at 12:01 a.m. EDT