Judge faults Donuts on procedural grounds and the merits, so auction will go ahead today as planned. An auction to resolve the .web top level domain name contention set will go forward today as originally planned. United States District Judge Percy ... Continue Reading6 Comments
Poll: How much will .web domain name sell for?
· UncategorizedHow much money will the .web contention set be settled for? Barring a last-minute court decision, the highly-anticipated auction to settle the .web top level domain contention set will take place on Wednesday. Thankfully for industry watchers, the ... Continue Reading8 Comments
ICANN: Wednesday’s .Web auction must go on
· Policy & LawGroup responds to lawsuit and argues auction should take place on Wednesday as planned. ICANN has responded (pdf) to Donuts' lawsuit over the .web top level domain name auction, saying that Donuts' allegations are unfounded and that the auction should ... Continue ReadingLeave a Comment
ICANN denies request to delay .web auction (again)
· Policy & Law.Web auction should still take place this month, ICANN determines. ICANN has quickly responded (pdf) to a reconsideration request filed by Radix and Donuts that requested this month's .web top level domain auction be postponed. The two companies are ... Continue Reading5 Comments
Donuts and Radix still miffed over .Web applicant
· Policy & LawCompanies file reconsideration request. Meanwhile, who just bought web.biz? Last week Radix and Schlund Technologies GmbH sent letters to ICANN asking them to postpone an upcoming auction for .Web, scheduled to take place July 27. They are concerned ... Continue Reading1 Comment
Applicants ask for .web auction postponement over Nu Dot Co
· Policy & LawApplicants concerned that rival has a big-money backer. At least two applicants for the .web top level domain name are asking for this month's auction to be postponed. Radix and Schlund Technologies GmbH sent letters to ICANN that state: We ... Continue Reading1 Comment
Survey: .Club and .Web domain names are favorites
· Uncategorized.Club is In Da Club. .Club is a favorite new top level domain name, according to this year's Domain Name Wire Survey. The survey asked which top new level domain name was the respondent's favorite, as well as which TLD they thought would get the ... Continue ReadingLeave a Comment
Vistaprint may have just delayed .Web by filing an Independent Review
· Policy & LawVistaprint challenges (again) string similarity between .web and .webs. What does this man for the .web timeline? Vistaprint is the latest new top level domain name applicant to invoke the Independent Review process regarding an application. The ... Continue Reading1 Comment
.Web and .Webs: “There can be only one”
· Policy & LawVistaPrint will have to duke it out with Web.com if it wants the .webs brand TLd. The International Centre for Dispute Resolution has handed in its final determination for the controversial String Confusion Objection process. In this case, Web.com ... Continue Reading6 Comments
Web.com formally announces bid for .web
· UncategorizedWeb.com formally announced .web application. Web.com, parent company of Network Solutions and Register.com, formally announced its bid for the .web top level domain today. Of course, we've known about the company's plans since at least October of ... Continue Reading4 Comments