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Competition within the .au domain space The dot-au Domain Administration is currently investigating ways to introduce competition within the Australian domain space, which will ultimately benefit end-users. A Model Advisory Panel have completed their initial stages of the review process by researching and comparing current procedures in Australia and overseas. The Panel will produce a detailed report in early 2001, which will be made available for public consultation. Final recommendations will be made by mid-2001, which will hopefully be implemented in the third quarter 2001 and will effect end-user choice, pricing, service levels and dispute resolution. New organisation to administer .hk domain names A public consultation during July this year led to an announcement from the current .hk administrators, the Joint Universities Computer Centre, which will ultimately result in a new organisation taking over responsibility for the .hk domain space next year. The new organisation will be responsible for implementing more flexible registration procedures, including allowing multiple domain names, registrations open to individuals, transfer procedures and a dispute resolution policy. It is likely that renewal fees will also be introduced.
How trademark holders can beat the rush for .info ICANN has selected .info as the next unrestricted generic top-level domain. Open registrations are expected to begin in the second quarter of 2001. Tom Barrett, CEO of NetNames explains how the 'sunrise' period will help trademark holders beat the rush. For more information
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HERE baa.com case resolved The legal battle for www.baa.com has been settled out of court after the domain name's current owner, whose site features little more than sheep and details of the court case, was no longer able to afford the legal fees for fighting the case against British Airports Authority. Although full details of the case have not been released, the owner will get to keep the www.baa.net domain name under the terms of the agreement. First Japanese domain name dispute settled Jaccs Co. Ltd, a major Japanese credit card firm, last week won Japan's first web domain name court dispute. It was the first time a court has ruled that the use of domain names that have connotations to other firms' trademarks can be deemed a violation of Japan's unfair competition prevention law. The judge accepted Jaccs' arguments that Nihonkai Pakuto, a company based in Toyama city, can no longer use the jaccs.co.jp domain name it had registered. However, the ruling states only that the company must stop using the domain name. Under Japanese law, there is still no basis under which a domain name can be transferred forcibly from one party to another, but the verdict should speed up moves in Japan to better protect the rights of businesses to their own trademarks.
NetNames recently launched its Domain Name Registration Service (DNRS), a total brand management platform enabling users to search, register and manage their domain names from their PC. The system, which can sit on a client's website, intranet or be accessed directly at www.netnames.co.uk or www.netnames.com enables trademark professionals to check and register in over 200 of the world's country-code and generic top level domains. An industry-first innovation provides the user with direct access to the extensive NetNames knowledge base for registration requirements, so that they are notified immediately if restrictions to register in a particular country top level domain exists.
Domain Name Dispute Resolution Service for ccTLDs In addition to its role as dispute resolution service provider for the .com, .net and .org generic top-level domains, the World Intellectual Property Organization also provides domain name dispute services for the following ccTLDs: .AC - Ascension
Island However the following ccTLDs are the only ones where cases have actually been filed: .AS,
Many country-code top level domains with 'unusual' suffixes are opening themselves up to the general public, since their domestic markets are too small to earn good money from. If you run a music site, you might like to consider the .mu (Mauritius) domain suffix. Dot-am (Armenia) and .fm (Federal States of Micronesia) are suffixes naturally favoured by radio stations, and .tv (Tuvalu) an obvious multimedia ending. Dot-to (Tonga) is a popular site used for redirection purposes.
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