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This nTLD approval process by ICANN in two years will be a very important event.
We can expect to see many applications for TLDs that have been registered at Freename before.
In the best scenario, Freename will have its breakthrough before that, so that new TLDs at ICANN will become meaningless.

... which resulted in a right to use the domain. With regard to bad faith, López García sees that the domain was registered by the opponent 13 years after the trade mark was registered. However, there is no evidence to suggest that the US-based opponent was aware of the complainant's business ...

Feliz cumpleaños, .pr: 35 years have passed since the country extension of Puerto Rico was registered in the root zone on 27 August 1989. Dr Oscar Moreno de Ayala, who took over the development of .pr, is regarded as a pioneer: .pr is ...

... below .tw at the second level domain level. The increased fees in the landrush phase are only due once; the usual fees then apply in subsequent years. In the event of any legal infringements, the ‘TWNIC Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy’ and the ‘Rules for the TWNIC Domain Name Dispute Resolution ...

... Zealand Domain Name Commission (DNC) is planning changes to the out-of-court dispute resolution procedure for .nz domains. Introduced around 20 years ago, changes are needed to reflect current best practice. The first planned change concerns a cultural peculiarity of New Zealand; in future, ...

... ‘olymplics’, ‘olymppics’, ‘olympicpepe’ or ‘olympicgold’. Overall, a significant use of keywords referring to the Olympic Games and specific years or events has been identified, including ‘paris2024’, ‘olympics2024’ or, looking ahead, ‘winterolympics2034’. The cybercriminals want to attract ...

... report on UDRP decisions for the second quarter of 2024. The upward curve in the number of UDRP proceedings flattens out for the first time in ten years. ‘Gigalaw's Domain Dispute Digest Second Quarter 2024’ is a 15-page report on the development of UDRP proceedings over the past three months. ...

... of 329 billion DNS transactions per day and has reached a peak of more than six million transactions per second this year. For more than 27 years, VeriSign has ensured 100 per cent DNS availability for .com without interruption, he said, by operating a large, globally distributed registry ...

... the maximum price received for the annual registration or renewal of a .com domain by up to seven per cent over the previous year in the last four years of each six-year contract period, a right VeriSign has always exercised in full. The NTIA is therefore giving in to public pressure: ‘At the same ...

... at the third London Domain Name Summit, which is organised as an in-person event. Having become a magnet for the domain name industry in recent years, the London Domain Name Summit will take place for the third time from 19 to 21 August 2024. The venue will once again be the Hilton London Metropole. ...