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... and the variable fee to US$ 3.8 million. ICANN will give all stakeholders the opportunity to comment on the planned increases as part of the public comment process, which is expected to open in December 2024. The fee increases for registries will then come into force on 1 January 2025 and ...

... of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) have therefore been working on the successor protocol IPv6, which has long been available to the public and theoretically makes 3.4 X 10 to the power of 38 addresses possible; however, its breakthrough is still pending. The address shortage has ...

... promote greater diligence across the global domain name ecosystem”. The letter from Mark R. Warner can be found at: https://www.warner.senate.gov/public/_cache/files/4/e/4e9969ec-3780-464a-ab2d-691db067837d/FB1EF8A7559A823A51351A5A2FA96E2077226711B7534E7720C7157D73496C8F.10.24.24-doppelganger-letters.pdf

... “LAMBORGHINI” mark is world famous and the plaintiff acknowledged that “LAMBO” is confusingly similar to it, and further noted that the general public does not exclusively associate “LAMBO” with “LAMBORGHINI”; however, it is clear that the strong association of “LAMBO” with “LAMBORGHINI” by ...

... of panelists, legal advisors, parties and providers. A draft report is currently being prepared and is expected to be made available to a wider public in early 2025. The final report will then be forwarded to ICANN for consideration in any UDRP review. The WIPO announcement can be found at: ...

... on 17 November 2009 in Washington (DC), the World Wide Web Foundation, also known as the Web Foundation, was committed to promoting the web as a public good and fundamental right. Its goal was a world in which everyone has the same rights and opportunities online. The ‘Contract for the Web’ was ...

An open secret has been confirmed: the NIS 2 Directive will not be transposed into national law in the Federal Republic of Germany by 17 October 2024 as planned. Spring 2025 is currently considered realistic. The Directive on measures for a high common level of cybersecurity across ...

... how renewals are influenced by the use of domains and the age of domains. Unfortunately, only Myles' blog entry is available - so far. There is no public access to the study he refers to in his article. However, the blog post already provides far-reaching data. The study analyses the relationship ...

The ‘Clearingstelle Urheberrecht im Internet’ (CUII) has responded to the publication of the complete list of blocked domain names by a 17-year-old student: as the bloggers at netzpolitik.org report, 39 blocks have now been lifted. Since 2021, the CUII has been ...

... 157 million registered .com domains, VeriSign is therefore far more exposed to abuse than any other registry of a generic domain extension. The public has until 5 November 2024 to comment on the draft agreement. In view of the discussions on fees, particularly in June and July 2024, it can be ...