Forbes.com published an interesting article about Neustar, known best as the .BIZ, .US and kids.us domain and US based ENUM registry. This Forbes article discusses the financial decline of Neustar in 2007 as well as the promising future of this major Internet institution.
The article reads, “You would think that as the only provider of a set of essential services relied on by thousands of communications service providers (CSPs), NeuStar would hold up fairly well in this weak-handed market, especially when the company has displayed impressive growth in recent periods. Yet the stock has fallen more than 20% since mid-October and ended down 11% for 2007.
However, according to our quantitative model employed by the Forbes Growth Investor, the stock is due for a rebound.”
Click here for the full article…
Source: Forbes Magazine Article by Taesik Yoon, Forbes Growth Investor 01.04.08, 6:30 PM ET
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There is currently an announcement on the Sedo page providing information on the auction of iran.com stating “This auction has been cancelled. If you are interested in making an offer on this domain, please click here.” (Read more…)
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Bob Marley’s Wailers, also known as “The Wailers”, recently won a cybersquatting and trademark infringement lawsuit brought by another Wailers musical group, who started using the band name ten years before Bob Marley named his group in 1969. In 1998, the Bob Marley Wailers registered www.wailers.com and in order for the plaintiffs to win their case, they would have had to prove that Bob Marley’s Wailers registered wailers.com in bad faith. Since no evidence of bad faith was introduced by plaintiffs the case was dismissed.
Ormsby v. Barrett, 2008 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 20 (United States District Court for the Western District Court for the Western District of Washington) Read the full story here.
Source: Traverse Legal Post – January 4th, 2008
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MARINA DEL REY, Calif. : The Chairman of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) today welcomed the beginning of its tenth year of operations.
“Happy New Year to all those involved in the work that ICANN does,” said Peter Dengate Thrush, Chairman of the Board of ICANN. “I extend my personal best wishes to you all, and thank you in advance for the contributions I know you will be making to ICANN’s mission in 2008.”
Peter Dengate Thrush, spoke about the year ahead, including announcing a celebration of a decade of great contribution by the ICANN community to building a strong and effective ICANN. (Read more…)
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Marina del Rey, CA: ICANN and Internet Systems Consortium (ISC) are today announcing the signing of a Mutual Responsibilities Agreement for the operation of the F-root nameserver.
Effective root server operations are an essential component in providing a stable and secure, globally interoperable Internet. ISC is one of twelve global root server operators that provide a key element of the underlying domain name system infrastructure of the Internet. (Read more…)
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An interesting posting on Daily Domainer. Daily Domainer has analysed Domain Name Journal’s top 100 reported sales in 2007 and 2006 and found the median price for sales has increased from $124,000 in 2006 to $197,500 in 2007. This is an increase of 59.27%, which, as they say, is a pretty good representation of this year’s bull market in premium domains. (Read more…)
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The domain name “NaturalToys.com” is available for sale to so-called qualified buyers according to a news release from online merchant NaturalPlay.com. The company says they will also consider a package sale including the domain “NaturalPlay.com” and the associated website business. (Read more…)
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This question was recently asked on the Daily Domainer blog where an associate “was bulk-checking 200+ generic typo domains through a software that shall remain unnamed for now. All of the domains were available. But less than 2 minutes later, more than 50 of the domains had been registered by a number of different offshore companies from the Bahamas.” (Read more…)
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The Russian government is looking to create a Cyrillic internet, but is it just another case of Big Brother controlling its citizens?
The Guardian recently published a story on Russia’s desire “for greater control over the Russian-language part of the net – and its aim seems to be to create a web that operates in Cyrillic, completely independent from the wider web.” However, The Guardian notes the “problem for Russia is that its top-level domain – with the ASCII suffix .ru – translates into Cyrillic as .py, the domain name of Paraguay.” This could lead to security problems for Russia’s internet users. So, according to ICANN’s Kim Davies, Russia is “is pushing for .rf in Cyrillic.” (Read more…)
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It is always interesting to know which domain name disputes were successful and which ones were denied. Below is a list of the last 50+ decisions made by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO):
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