Friday, July 30, 2010

.PEACE & .SHOP (x2)

A competitor for the .SHOP : http://www.dotshop.biz

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An interesting "peace label" proposed to unify on the Internet and developed for the peace community.
The .PEACE Top-Level Domain : http://www.dot-peace.org

Thursday, July 29, 2010

European Cultural & Linguistic Internet Domains

I support the European Cultural & Linguistic Internet Domains.




ECLID was introduced to the European Parliament on the 24th of August. The introduction to European cultural and linguistic Top Level Domains was followed by a debate on the benefits of these initiatives : what they provide to their communities.

Members are .BZH / .CYM / .EUS / .GAL / .SCOT and .CAT

Find their official web site here

Friday, July 23, 2010

.UNICEF Top-Level Domain

United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund may apply for a Top-Level Domain.

The official announcement is available here

Wednesday, July 21, 2010

.RIGA Top Level Domain

The Title says it all : "SIA dotRiga" will apply for the geographic community gTLD ".riga" with ICANN in 2011.

.RIGA is a new project from Alexander Schubert born in September 1965 in Berlin, Germany, and living in Riga since the spring of 2006.

Monday, July 19, 2010

TLD list updated with IDNs

Registries.tel is a list I maintain with Top-Level Domains projects. Many listings do exist but none are up to date. I mean here many projects were announced but part of them now have their web site down or the domain name is just cyber-squatted.

The Internationalized Domain Names were missing to my list so you will find the link to the official list of Internationalized Domain Names ccTLD fast track string evaluation completion here : idn.registries.tel

Note this list is maintained by ICANN with primary string requested, country of request and contact details of requester.

Tuesday, July 13, 2010

Ville de Moscou

2 projet en cours : en caractères Latins et en caractères Russes.

http://domainmoscow.ru

Friday, July 9, 2010

.VEN not allowed ?

In Draft Applicant Guidebook, I read :

"Applications for strings that are country or territory names will not be approved, as they are not available under the New gTLD Program in this application round. A string shall be considered to be a country or territory name if : it is an alpha-3 code listed in the ISO 3166-1 standard."

"VEN" is listed in the alpha-3 code listed in ISO 3166-1 for Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela. I am lucky "VIN" is not listed there.

Source : 2.2.1.4.1 Treatment of Country or Territory Names

Friday, July 2, 2010

Que faire si un projet d'extension Internet porte préjudice à votre marque ?

Comment réagir si vous êtes le titulaire de la marque "LAMBDA" et que vous souhaitez la protéger lors du lancement de nouveaux noms de domaine ? Par exemple, comment protéger "lambda.vin" ?

L’inquiétude des marques est grande à l’approche du lancement des nouvelles extensions Internet : comment réagir si le dépôt d’un dossier de candidature porte préjudice à une marque ?

Lire ma chronique sur DomainesInfo

New TLDs : what to do to protect your brand ?

Trademarks' anxiety is high to the approach of new Top-Level Domains. What should trademarks owners know to protect themselves in case of infringements ?

More (in french) on DomainesInfo

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