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<.wine> gTLD on the Horizon; Protect your Brand Name

Wednesday, June 24, 2015

In 2013, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (“ICANN”), the non-profit organization responsible for managing the Internet’s domain identifiers, began rolling out new generic top-level domains (“gTLDs”). The most popular gTLD is <.com>. Specific domain names are registered under a specific gTLD, e.g., <gallo.com>. However, ICANN believed that in time the <.com> gTLD […]

Why Would Wine Industry Support .wine TLD?

Monday, June 23, 2014

On Saturday, June 21, 2014, the 50th session of ICANN meetings opened up in London. ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, is the non-profit organization that coordinates the Internet’s global domain system. One of the issues addressed at the London meetings was the ongoing issue of the new Top Level Domains (TLDs) for […]