By Emily Johns During the last week of June, the ICANN community convened in Panamá City, Panamá for the ICANN 62 Policy Forum. While a traditionally shorter and smaller meeting, this meeting focused on the work on surrounding the interpretation and implementation of ICANN’s Temporary Specification for gTLD Registration Data and the process for developing […]
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By Emily Johns On May 25th, the much-anticipated European Union General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) became fully enforceable. In the week before it did, and after months of community engagement across multiple stakeholder groups, the ICANN Board voted to approve its first-ever Temporary Specification in order to amend its established WHOIS policies to be compliant
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By Lauren Tracey ICANN published the Sunrise Period for Google’s latest new gTLD .APP, which opens for registrations beginning on March 29, 2018. .APP Background Google won the rights to operate the .APP registry in 2015 after bidding over 25 million dollars at a heated 2-day ICANN auction. To this day, it remains one of
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By Josh Bourne The Equifax cyber-attack of 2017 highlighted the vulnerability of corporate networks and consumer privacy in the new era of the Internet and cyber threats. In fact, 2017 saw more expansive and more high profile breaches than any other year to date. Consequently, corporates are urging more awareness and responsiveness to cyber threats
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By Lauren Tracey Every year the Super Bowl is not only an opportunity for fans to tune in and cheer for their favorite teams, but also for brands to reach millions of Americans with what they hope will be “stand out” ads. For many viewers, the advertisements are more enticing than the game itself. This
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By Taylor Frank The New gTLD topic has proven to be fairly complex one. To date, it has been very difficult to get an accurate read on the adoption of these new platforms. With policy initiatives underway that may result in a second new gTLD application round in 2019-2020, we thought it would be a
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By Josh Bourne FairWinds Partners recently marked our 300th successful Uniform Domain-Name Dispute-Resolution Policy (UDRP) outcome, bringing our overall success rate to 99.75%. FairWinds has a long history of success when it comes to reclaiming domain names on behalf of FairWinds’ clients. Nearly 400 complaints have been filed on behalf of FairWinds’ clients to-date, a
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By Josh Bourne Join us for a free webinar on January 16, 2018, to hear from Taylor Frank, Vice President at FairWinds, with regard to recent developments, analysis and trends related to new gTLD usage and adoption. Email us at info@fairwindspartners.com to register! The new gTLD initiative has proven to be fairly complex. To date,
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By Emily Johns On December 6th, Chairwoman of the Article 29 Data Protection Working Party Isabelle Falque-Pierrotin submitted a letter to Cherine Chalaby and Goran Marby of ICANN, expressing — in no uncertain terms — the challenges to and expectations of the organization in light of the impending General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) law that
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By Josh Bourne 2017 proved to be an eventful year with the United States pulling back from ICANN, the advance of opportunistic practices by bad actors, and innovative uses of new gTLDS from some of the biggest global brands. These three trends should be top of mind as 2018 domain name strategies are considered. Policy
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By Abdul Khan According to the Federal Communication Commission (FCC) Chairman Ajit Pai, the Obama era Net Neutrality rules that govern access to the Internet will be repealed on December 14th, 2017. While the impact of this action may take some time to directly impact companies and individuals, the FCC vote could signal an important
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For UDRP Panelists, some cases are very straightforward and obvious and it takes very little time to draft a decision. However, every once in a while, along comes a case which should be very straightforward and obvious, but one of the parties just doesn’t quite see it that way. And so it is with a
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