Archive for April, 2008
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Tuesday, April 29th, 2008
We previously reported on the measures in place to secure protection for Olympic brands ahead of the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver.
The potential windfall for local businesses due to Olympic tourism and general Olympic goodwill has now prompted the Vancouver park board to scramble to secure brand ownership of the popular Vancouver landmark, Stanley Park. The board are trying to purchase the domain name stanleypark.com from owner Gerry O’Neill who runs a lucrative horse-drawn carriage business in the park, but Mr. O’Neill, whose business generates close to $1 million in annual revenue, is not interested in selling. The website provides information to tourists on the fully-narrated horse-drawn carriage tours which include a complete history of the 1,000 acre park and cater to large crowds of visitors during the summer months.
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Domain Tasting Proposal Passed by ICANN’s GNSO Council
Monday, April 21st, 2008
As an update to an earlier post, ICANN’S GNSO Council has passed a resolution that could end domain tasting. As reported earlier, under the policy, any gTLD operator that has implemented an add grace period (“AGP”) would be prohibited from offering a refund for any domain name deleted during the AGP that exceeds 10% of its net new registrations for a month, or 50 domain names, whichever is greater. The policy also provides that an operator may seek an exemption for a particular month, upon documented showing of extraordinary circumstances. ICANN staff will monitor implementation and execution of the recommendations.
The resolution will now be discussed by the ICANN Board and is to be adopted unless at least 2/3 of the ICANN Board votes against it.
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Implementation of CIRA’s new .CA WHOIS Policy
Friday, April 18th, 2008
Further to our earlier post regarding changes to CIRA’s WHOIS Policy, the change in policy is scheduled to take effect June 10, 2008. Under the new .CA WHOIS Policy, information about individual Registrants and their Administrative and Technical contacts will no longer be displayed. Individual Registrants may “opt-in” to display their information. Information about corporate Registrants will be displayed by default. CIRA is apparently establishing an online process for passing correspondence from interested parties to individual Registrants and such process is also to be available June 10, 2008.
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