The ICANN Board approved a modification to the Implementation Rules for the Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (“Rules”). The modified Rules now require UDRP claimants and respondents to provide documents to UDRP Providers in electronic form. The modified Rules also change UDRP Provider obligations in forwarding hard copy notice to respondents in UDRP proceedings: the original Rules required Providers to forward a hard copy of the UDRP complaint; under the new Rules, Providers do not have to forward a hard copy of the entire complaint. Providers are now only required to forward a hard copy notice that a UDRP complaint has been filed.
The modified Rules will become mandatory for all UDRP proceedings filed on or after 1 March 2010.
TLDs, ccTLDs, gTLDs
China to apply for .?? ‘Zhongguo’ domain name
China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC) today will apply for the top-level Chinese domain name “Zhongguo”(written in pinyin), to key Internet oversight agency the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), www.people.com.cn reported Global netizens may be able to log on to the Internet with the new domain at the beginning of next year at the earliest, according to reports.
Egypt launches Arabic web domain
Egypt will open the world’s first Arabic language internet domain, its communications minister has said.
Tarek Kamel said the new domain name would be “.masr” written in the Arabic alphabet. It translates as “.Egypt”.
“It is a great moment for us… The internet now speaks Arabic,” Mr Kamel said.
IDN ccTLD Fast Track Process Launch
16 November 2009, ICANN is pleased to announce the launch of the IDN ccTLD Track Process.
Non-English speakers across the globe will soon have access to the Internet addresses completely in their own lanuage. The Internet Corportation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), the organization charged with overseeing the Internet’s naming and numbering systems, is today launching a process for delegating a number of internationalized top-level domains.
Brand protection and domain names
If you own a brand and want to really protect it online, a basic action would require you to buy more than 250 domain names.
280 is indeed the number of domain extensions in total:
- 20 generic TLD (.com, .net, .biz, .edu … to name a few)
- 248 country code TLD (.fr, .de, .th, .us, .uk, .ru, .cm to name a few)
- 1 historic extension: .arpa
- 11 would be extensions currently in testing phase.
So to be sure that no one can buy you brand name online, you need to register 268 domains. And then you might need to consider some common typos and hyphen versions and key product names.
Have you done it yet?
