–Dan Kelly, Attorney
In case you did not yet hear the news, ICANN at long last revealed this week the new applied-for strings in the new gTLD program. If you are unfamiliar with what this is, ICANN will be expanding the number of available so-called “generic” top-level domains (gTLDs) for use in Internet domain
–Dan Kelly, Attorney
I have just made the happy discovery that the good folks over at FairWinds Partners, operators of the Domain Name Strategy blog, have another blog called gTLD Strategy. In this post this week, they have hinted that there may be more “.brand” applicants in this round of gTLD applications than
–Dan Kelly, Attorney
The Trademark Trial and Appeal Board recently issued a precedential decision upholding the Trademark Office’s refusal to register five applications for the mark .MUSIC in connection with a variety of goods and services, holding that .MUSIC is merely descriptive of the goods and services. A PDF copy of the decision is here
–Dan Kelly, Attorney
I have blogged numerous times in the past about domain name related issues that are concerns for brand owners: domaining, typosquatting, and the planned roll-out of new gTLD domains. This last issue–the expansion of the top-level domain space from a relative handful of top-level domains (like .com, .net, .org,
–Dan Kelly, Attorney
Pot luck post today, but all related to the wonderful world of domain names:
–Dan Kelly, Attorney
I assume that most readers have heard that the universe of Internet domain names may be expanding next year. Instead of being limited to a finite number of relatively mundane top-level domain extensions like “.com” and “.org,” ICANN is planning to allow for the registration of any string of characters to the
–Dan Kelly, Attorney
Back in April, I explained a little bit about how typosquatters can capitalize on direct navigation Internet traffic. I offered an example of the “omitted letter” typo: www.kellggs.com. Well, one omitted letter typo variant of .com is becoming widely available: .cm.
The TLD “.cm” is the country code top-level domain (“ccTLD”)
–Dan Kelly, Attorney
I am earnestly trying to reserve judgment on the prospect that the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (“ICANN” — the proverbial “man behind the curtain” of the Internet) is actually going to go through with its roll out of opening new generic top-level domains (“gTLDs“) to