Recent Posts
- ICA rallies the troops to defeat .org price hikes. It won’t work
- Karklins beats LaHatte to chair ICANN’s Whois privacy team
- ICANN to approve new UDRP provider
- Amazon tells power-hungry governments to get stuffed
- Oh, the irony! Banned anti-Islam activist shows up on “Turkish” new gTLD domain
- ICANN got hacked by crypto bots
- Revenue dips as Brexit whacks .eu in 2018
- auDA rejects domaining ban but approves second-level domains
- KPMG dumps .com for dot-brand gTLD
- David and Goliath? DotMusic confirms .music win
- Neustar loses most of its Amazon back-end biz to Nominet
- ICANN takes the reins again as .amazon talks fail
- Italian bank is the latest dot-brand to bow out
- .music update: I’m calling it for Costa
- ICA opposes Aussie domaining ban
- “Just give up!” ICANN tells its most stubborn new gTLD applicant
- Did Roussos pull off the impossible? Google, Donuts, Radix all drop out of .music race
- “Stringent” new online censorship law could affect domain companies
- Looks like .music is finally on its way
- .blog tops 200,000 regs due to WordPress partnership
- .london disaster leads to mixed 2018 for MMX
- ICANN waves goodbye to Adobe Connect over security, pricing
- Donuts raises prices on most TLDs by up to 9%
- .com outsells new gTLDs by 2:1 in 2018
- CentralNic gets 680,000 AlpNames domains for free, kinda
- NameSilo nets $1.5 million profit
- Registry offers “$2,500” in sweeteners for .inc registrants
- Most .uk registrants not interested in .uk
- Australia likely to BAN domaining
- Root servers whacked after crypto change
- XYZ weighs into Epik controversy with .monster fundraising domain
- After NZ shooting, Epik has a Monster PR problem
- Another dot-brand bites the dust
- Whois vacuum AppDetex raises $10 million
- The DNS’s former overseer now has its own domain name
- Tucows splurges $30 million on Ascio
- UDRP complaints hit new high at WIPO
- .vu to relaunch under mystery new registry
- AlpNames could get PAID for abandoning its customers
- O.com might be a one-off for Verisign
- Andruff escalates Disspain feud, asks ICANN to ban him from chair
- Rumors swirl as AlpNames suffers “days” of downtime
- ICANN plays tough over Amazon dot-brands
- Data beats Merdinger to head universal acceptance group
- Radix sees revenue up 30%
- Verisign gets approval to sell O.com for $7.85
- At eleventh hour, most .uk registrants still don’t own their .uk names
- Mohan takes the reins at Afilias
- Trademark posse fails to block Whois privacy policy
- Nevett headhunts top execs from three rivals
Google beaten in new gTLD contention set
When it comes to new gTLDs, Google is not invulnerable.
Japanese web portal NTT Resonant, a subsidiary of the country’s incumbent national telco, has drawn first blood against the search giant, apparently forcing Google to withdrawn its application for .goo.
NTT has also applied for .goo, the name of its primary portal site, which competes with Google for Japanese-language searchers.
The company had filed a formal legal rights objection with WIPO. The withdrawal demonstrates that the mechanism can protect trademark owners, at least insofar as it can scare off competing applicants.
Google’s bid was marked as withdrawn on ICANN’s web site overnight. It’s the fourth withdrawal from the company, following three misjudged geographic applications, leaving it with 97 active bids.
There are now 82 withdrawn and 1,848 live applications. The maximum number of delegated strings remains steady at 1,365. More program status stats can be found over on DI PRO.
Recent Comments
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