Fergal O'Byrne, who is CEO of the Irish Internet Association, was one of the panelists involved in the interview regarding cybersquatting the other day.Yesterday afternoon he posted at length explaining and clarifying his and the association's position on squatting. Head over there if you want to give them your thoughts. … [Read more...] about Irish Internet Association Boss Clarifies Position on Squatting
Trademark Infringement Is Due To Negligence
What do Bebo and Adidas have in common?At first glance, probably very little, however they've both fallen prey to an Irish based domain squatting operation based in Dublin's Digital Hub.Gabor Varga seems to think that he is a legitimate businessman, whereas trademark holders and their legal teams would probably have a very different view of his activities. In fact, if the WIPO … [Read more...] about Trademark Infringement Is Due To Negligence
The Battle Over Whois Policy Continues
One of the sessions I attended at the ICANN meeting in Lisbon earlier this year centred on whois. It became abundantly clear to me that the various stakeholders had very different views and objectives on how to treat and publish registrant data.I wouldn't care to get into the finer points of the arguments, as the parties involved have done so time and again without reaching an … [Read more...] about The Battle Over Whois Policy Continues
Neil Edwards on DotMobi Site Launches
Sex sells, so it's hardly surprising that Neil Edwards, CEO of Mtld, the dotmobi registry, in a post on the company blog last night chose to catch people's attention with the headline: "sex.mobi To Go On Sale, And More" Was he really that interested in sex? Probably not more than any other guy, but what he was interested in doing was showcasing a couple of more dotmobi sites … [Read more...] about Neil Edwards on DotMobi Site Launches
Kieren McCarthy on new and old TLDs
Kieren, who has been setting up new things with ICANN since he joined them, has an interesting post on the ICANN blog today discussing both new and old TLDs and ones that just didn't happen. It's well worth a read. Why wasn't .nom approved? Why did they opt for .name? … [Read more...] about Kieren McCarthy on new and old TLDs
Domain Roundtable San Francisco April 2008
Jay Westerdal has announced that the next Domain Roundtable will be held in San Francisco from April 18th - 20th 2008. The most recent event was held last week in Seattle. … [Read more...] about Domain Roundtable San Francisco April 2008
Defending the indefensible – EUBrowser Denies CyberSquatting
Today's Irish edition of the Sunday Times has an article on the cybersquatters referred to commonly as "EUBrowser" entitled "Cybersquat Firm Lurks in Digital Hub". I've mentioned them in the past, as they lost several WIPO cases including adidas.ie, buy-sell.ie and a couple of Google squats (googl.ie and googel.ie) that were settled before WIPO had a chance to publish a … [Read more...] about Defending the indefensible – EUBrowser Denies CyberSquatting
ICANN To Hit Paris
ICANN have officially announced that their next European meeting will held in Paris, France. (Full announcement here) The meeting is scheduled to run from 22-27 June 2008, though venue details are yet to be announced. … [Read more...] about ICANN To Hit Paris
Web Based Tool For Nominet Registrars
As regulars here probably know I run an Irish hosting and domain registration company. We released a bit of software that might be of interest to Nominet registrars earlier this evening. NB: If you aren't a Nominet registrar it won't be of any interest / use to you … [Read more...] about Web Based Tool For Nominet Registrars
Tracking the weather on your mobile – weather.mobi goes live
Weather.mobi is the first of the premium dotmobi domains to go live. The registry made an official announcement a few hours ago and the site is already up and running. Unlike paramount.mobi, that reserves a lot of its premium content for US subscribers only, weather.mobi provides local weather information for even the smallest of Irish towns. The Weather Channel have been … [Read more...] about Tracking the weather on your mobile – weather.mobi goes live