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ICANN deadline fast approaching for objections to new top-level domains

  • Ropes & Gray LLP
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  • Global
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  • February 12 2013

The deadline is fast approaching for third parties to object to any of the nearly 2,000 new generic top-level domains currently under review by the

gTLD application reveal: strategies to protect your rights and brands

  • Banner & Witcoff Ltd
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  • Global
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  • June 13 2012

The application period for new generic top level domains (which will supplement existing gTLDs like “.com”) closed on May 30, 2012

Everybody gets an internet domain!

  • King & Wood Mallesons
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  • Global
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  • June 21 2011

In an earlier post on the Whiteboard, we reported a proposal made at the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN, the body that operates the internet domain name system) called the New gTLD program, which would substantially expand the number of general Top-Level Domains (gTLDs) from the current 22, which includes such familiar domains as .com, .org and .net

Surprise, surprise - IP theft is on the rise...

  • DMH Stallard LLP
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  • Global
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  • January 24 2011

A report issued by MarkMonitor, an online brand protection business, indicates that websites offering pirated digital media content such as RapidShare.com, Megavideo.com and Megaupload.com, attract over 53 billion hits per year in total

Internationalized domain names to open up the Internet to users of Cyrillic, Arabic, Chinese, Korean and many other non-roman alphabets

  • Venable LLP
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  • Global, USA
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  • June 1 2010

One of the most significant changes to the Internet in years is the roll out of domain names in other alphabets, known as "internationalized domain names" or IDNs

.co domain now available for trademark owners

  • Holland & Knight LLP
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  • Colombia, Global
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  • May 14 2010

As of April 26, 2010, the .CO domain name extension was made available for registration by trademark owners

Update on new gTLDs - trade-mark protections addressed by ICANN

  • Cassels Brock & Blackwell LLP
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  • Global
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  • May 14 2010

Our last issue of the Cassels Brock Report included a discussion regarding the changes to the generic top level domain ("gTLD") regime that is being designed by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers ("ICANN"

Copyright and privacy questions around your public tweets and the new Library of Congress archive and Google Replay

  • Bereskin & Parr LLP
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  • Canada, Global
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  • May 10 2010

Twitter has become a cultural phenomenon, 140 characters at a time

“.co” extension now available for global use

  • Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP
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  • Colombia, Global
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  • May 4 2010

The domain “.co,” the country code top-level domain assigned to Colombia, has been released for worldwide registration

Taking a global approach to domain name management

  • Garrigues
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  • Global, Portugal
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  • May 4 2010

The management of a well-structured domain name portfolio is at the heart of successful trademark protection and, crucially, will help to prevent costly actions later