If all goes as planned, the TAS will reopen at 19:00 GMT/UTC and be open for a further eight days to allow users to review their applications for new generic Top Level Domains (gTLDs) and complete any remaining activities.

And if there are no glitches, such as the one that forced ICANN to take the TAS offline on 12 April, the application system will remain open until 23:59 GMT/UTC on 30 May 2012.

There are lots of opening bids on domain names in the auction. Here are some of the domain names included in the auction :

chine.tv
myringtones.com
cdz.com
tila.com
shx.com
qvd.com
rente.tv
dxv.com
working.net
bqq.com
ddd.net
panzerschränke.com
alojamientos.es
aventurine.com
phänomen.com
topmodel.net
cave.de

You can see the entire inventory here .

Please note that comments submitted after the posted Close Date/Time are not guaranteed to be considered in any final summary, analysis, reporting, or decision-making that takes place once that period ends.

For more information please refer to the ICANN Public Comments page at: http://www.icann.org/en/news/public-comment

Title    Comment Period Close Date [UTC Time]    Reply Period Close Date [UTC Time]
Second Annual IDN ccTLD Fast Track Process Review    30 April 2012 [23:59]    21 May 2012 [23:59]
ICANN Draft FY13 Operating Plan and Budget    24 May 2012 [23:59]    15 June 2012 [23:59]
IDN Variant TLD Program – Revised Program Plan    25 May 2012 [23:59]    15 June 2012 [23:59]

This announcement was sourced from :

http://www.icann.org/en/news/announcements/announcement-3-17may12-en.htm

BGL Group Limited has recently lost the fight over the domain name CompareTheMarket.XXX,after and arbitrator awarded the domain name to Jon Watkins,the one who registered the domain in December.

Jon Watkins registered the domain name on December 7,2011,the day .XXX extension became available for public sale.

BGL Group owns both CompareTheMarket.co.uk and CompareTheMarket.com,registered  on 21 September,2004.Even though the company owns many trademark registrations for “CompareTheMarket.com” and “CompareTheMarket” and trademarked these terms prior to the domain name registration,the panel decided to give the domain name holder rights to the domain.

The Panel  said the complainant failed to prove bad registration or use of the domain name:

“But Complainant fails to prove bad faith registration or use of the domain. Complainant states that the domain is “completely inactive”. Complainant does not show that Respondent tried to sell the domain to Complainant, has registered other infringing names, or otherwise has tried to profit from the domain or cause any other harm to Complainant. Respondent is not shown to have had prior UDRP cases in which he has been an unsuccessful Defendant. Clearly, “compare the market” could relate to myriad different types of markets and myriad different comparisons within each one, as demonstrated by a simple web search. ”

You can read the decision here .

Purpose (Brief):

Commencing a public comment period on the proposed revised process at this time is intended to solicit community input for Board consideration of the revised process.

Public Comment Box Link: www.icann.org/en/news/public-comment/revised-cross-ownership-restrictions-16may12-en.htm

This ICANN announcement was sourced from:
www.icann.org/en/news/announcements/announcement-16may12-en.htm

“Today, it was granted for the second time, the Database Award of the German computer magazine “COMPUTERWOCHE” and its partner Oracle. Innovative spirit, strategic importance to the company and sophisticated technologies are the criteria to determine the winners. This year, DENIC is one of them. Participating for the first time, the registry immediately won the second place.

As the second-largest Internet registry in the world, DENIC administers the more than 15 million domain names of the German Top Level Domain .de. Accordingly, the requirements to be met by the database, the core applications, like the registration system and the whois lookup service, and the accounting system are very demanding. The data amount having grown to terabyte level, time had come to upgrade the old database and adapt it to today’s business needs. DENIC decided to carry out a complete redesign of the data model and launched the DB refactoring project. The aim of this project was improved data integrity at enhanced performance to thus create a database that facilitated future adaptations.

Database migration during ongoing operation to ensure uninterrupted availability of all DENIC services was the particular challenge of the project. To this end, two databases – the old one and a new one – were operated in parallel, so that service migration could be implemented step by step without disturbing operation. In the first step, data were entered and continually updated in the new database. This process was accompanied by repeated consistency checks of the old and the new database. Long-term parallel operation of the two databases made the last step, the shut-down of the old database on 27 December 2011, almost a formality.

All in all a tremendous challenge. The jury was impressed: “The project illustrated how sustainability can be achieved through an innovative data model,” reads the motivation of the jury’s choice. “Moreover, the new system was launched with a terabyte migration during ongoing operation, and the users did not even notice it.”

The result is a high-performance database that processes business transactions up to ten times quicker than before and that provides a future-proof data model. “Our staff has been greatly committed to implement this project successfully,” says Marcos Sanz Grossón, Head of DENIC’s Software Engineering Department. “I am very pleased about the recognition the project has received with the Database Award; it will be an incentive for our future work.”

The Geneva meeting is to be led by the Commission on Science and Technology for Development and is a multi-stakeholder discussion platform on Internet governance structures.

In its proposal submitted to the General Assembly in New York on 26 October, 2011, The Hindu reports “India has argued for a radical shift from the present model of multi-stakeholder led decision-making, to a purely government-run multilateral body that would relegate civil society, private sector, international organisations as well as technical and academic groups to the fringes in an advisory role.”

“India is pushing for the creation of a forum called ‘Committee for Internet Related Policies’ (CIRP) to develop internet policies, oversee all internet standards bodies and policy organisations, negotiate internet-related treaties and sit in judgment when internet-related disputes come up. The catch is that India’s formal proposal is for CIRP to be funded by the U.N., run by staff from the U.N.’s Conference on Trade and Development arm and report directly to the U.N. General Assembly, which means it will be entirely controlled by the U.N.’s member states.

The report goes on to say “India’s proposal could prove controversial for multi-stakeholder communities within the country and across the world, since it entails moving away from the prevailing democratic ‘equal say’ process for internet governance to one in which governments would be front and centre, receiving advice from stakeholders and deciding the way forward.”

To read the report in The Hindu in full, see:
www.thehindu.com/news/national/article3423018.ece

The National Arbitration Forum will examine if the domain name is confusingly similar to the trademarked name.Moreover,it will examine if the owner of the UpYahoo.com domain name has rights over it and if the domain is being used in bad faith.UpYahoo.com will be passed over to Yahoo if it falls under all three of these stipulations.

According to whois records the owner is ALHIJAZI saad HIJAZI from Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

The case is still pending compliance checks with the National Arbitration Forum .

.COM

onlinefreegames.com    90000    USD
zimbabwe.com    42500    USD
yali.com    23000    USD
zuvo.com    17500    USD
actionfigure.com    17000    USD
denim-shop.com    12250    EUR
mopo.com    12000    USD
allthingsi.com    10700    USD
xee.com    10510    USD
messageme.com    10000    USD
unwall.com    7900    USD
r4e.com    7500    USD
brandtone.com    6000    EUR
gpswatch.com    6000    USD
fastcapital.com    5100    USD
bodykey.com    5000    USD
dixon-agency.com    5000    USD
redchapter.com    5000    USD
meupet.com    5000    USD
1cake.com    5000    USD
esume.com    5000    USD
theproteinbar.com    5000    USD

ccTLD

insure.it    13250    USD
imprentaonline.es    11800    EUR
hobby.tv    10000    USD
ruletka.pl    9000    EUR
go2.de    8925    EUR
lawsuit.us    4750    USD
madein.eu    4250    EUR
bip.it    4235    EUR
cosmeticdentist.org.uk    4000    GBP
blog.no    4000    EUR
shopit.co.uk    4000    GBP
eroshop.de    3600    EUR
moment.me    3500    EUR
amorenlinea.es    3500    EUR
badheizkoerper.de    3450    EUR

Other

apps.net    24100    EUR
ko.net    12000    USD
summercamp.net    5500    USD
supremacy.org    3000    USD
mylens.net    3000    EUR
epic.biz    2500    USD
ishot.net    2500    EUR
eticaretci.net    2000    USD
onlineschool.info    2000    USD
transport.org    2000    USD
virage.net    2000    USD
moralcapitalism.org    2000    USD
werkzeug.biz    2000    EUR
rovinj.org    2000    USD

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