Still want to protect wine Geographical Indications?

ICANN gave its go on .WINE and .VIN and France thinks that protecting wine Geographical indications is definitely not possible? Actually it is not…
There is a way.

I am in London from 24 to 25 but back to Paris on the 27. Axelle, if your team is not already on holidays, I can give them tips.

Read my latest "Trait d'humour" on .WINE and .VIN: http://gtld.club/2014/06/22/wine-vin-a-la-votre/

.WINE & .VIN domain names : a strange story

As the founding member of Project dotVinum for Wine Registries - a story which started in 2010 - I am just amazed by what I read in the press at the moment. If ICANN had done serious international communication about new gTLDs and not just a simple video posted on its blog, the situation about .WINE & .VIN would certainly not be the one it is today.

The last publication from Neelie Kroes, vice president of the European Commission, looks like a desperate letter sent to an ICANN board which will probably have few impact on "whatever the board decides"...unless I am wrong.

Since 2010, I had the chance to talk a lot about these wine Top-Level Domains, I even wrote a community project for .WINE - .VIN and .VINO domain names which was presented to some French wine institutions with that same message in the end: "Wow: interesting" or again: "Wow: expensive". I am very sad that I did not meet the CNAOC earlier because this could have been a French project in the end.

Today, the message sent to the wine community is very negative but...who's fault is it? And do we care to know who's fault it is now the ICANN Board has approved to proceed? As I wrote it many times, it certainly is not new gTLD applicants' fault who followed the methodology provided by ICANN: the new gTLD applicant guidebook (which French version is still not "final" and translated from the English one by the way).

Regarding the protection of Wine Geographical Indications, I'd be interested to know if the EC has any paid consultants on this question because solutions have been published, and read more than 6000 times. They are here and they were sent to ICANN. We never received any call from the EC to discuss them, why?
Regarding ICANN, we are not surprised if they never called as they probably considered that the Trademark Clearinghouse would be enough to protect Wine GIs (which is the case in a certain way). We were just very surprised to see that some ICANN insiders represented one applicant in discussions with officials.

Now .WINE and .VIN are approaching, the only suggestion that I think of for our European Institutions to exist on Internet is to start building their own Internet: an Internet managed by them. Regarding existing in ICANN...we'll still be talking about this in 20 years :-)

Cast your vote on .WINE & .VIN new gTLDs

Les noms de domaine .GLOBAL : l’alternative aux .COM

De nombreuses nouvelles extensions Internet sont à présent à disposition et de nombreuses autres sont distillées petit à petit, venant ainsi inonder l’univers des noms de domaine. Pourtant, c’est un fait: les nouvelles extensions sont là et trois paramètres sont à prendre en compte dans toute - actuelle - et nouvelle stratégie de marque :

1. Les noms de domaine .GLOBAL pourraient bien s’imposer d’ici quelques années comme “le nouveau .com”: si tel était le cas, le coût modique de son renouvellement pendant les dix prochaines années devrait représenter peu par rapport à ce qu’il en coûtera si celui-ci est enregistré par un tiers.
2. Les modes en matière de nommage sont bien surprenantes et très souvent, il est trop tard au moment de l’achat. Sécuriser son .GLOBAL fait partie des petits gestes qui permettent de "voir venir".
   Savez vous qui est l’exploitant du nom de domaine leclerc.fr ? Savez-vous que le Registre du .CO, qui n’est rien d’autre que le Registre des noms de domaine pour la Colombie, est une des extensions qui connait la plus forte progression? Est-il besoin de rappeler que l’extension privilégiée des télévisions, le .TV, n’est autre que celle des îles Tuvalu, elles mêmes perdues dans le Pacifique?
3. Nul besoin d’enregistrer tous les nouveaux noms de domaine. Seuls ceux avec le plus fort potentiel devraient composer tout portefeuille de noms de domaine. Si une marque doit sécuriser les noms de domaine qui entourent son activité, sa stratégie doit aussi présenter un volet qui intègre les rares extensions génériques parues et à paraitre. Un groupe qui affiche plusieurs marques ou activités différentes aura besoin d’un nom de domaine pour le représenter dans sa globalité.

A lire sur le Journal Du Net: http://www.journaldunet.com/ebusiness/expert/57695/les-noms-de-domaine--global---l-alternative-aux--com.shtml

Alternatives for .COM : Think .GLOBAL (Part 2)

Alternatives for .COM : Think .GLOBAL (Part 2) http://t.co/47mg8LFQOV
— Business 2 Community (@B2Community) June 16, 2014

.BRAND: Why your brand needs its own Top-Level Domain

Will the new .uk domain replace co.uk?

After 25 years The United Kingdom finally has a short, user friendly top level domain. Since yesterday it is now possible to register .uk domains. After three decades with variations like co.uk, org.uk and me.uk Nominet finally got around to offer the shortest, simplest and most memorable top level domain. Stephenfry.uk was the first domain name registered and during the day 50.000 registrations were completed showing the support for the new .uk.

Read the article from the EuropeanDomainCenter on gTLD.club

Paris craint les adresses internet “.VIN”

Trois ministres ont interpellé Bruxelles sur le projet d’attribution de certains noms de domaine qui pourraient porter préjudice aux viticulteurs.

Les ministres français appellent plus largement Bruxelles à passer à l’offensive pour permettre une réforme de la gouvernance de l’Icann, organisme de régulation qui a son siège en Californie et relève à ce titre, en dernière instance, du département du Commerce américain.

A lire sur gTLD.club