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John Battelle’s Searchblog carries an interesting article about Google open sourcing some code. The new Google site code.google.com contains a few interesting projects and some Google APIs.
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Written by John McCormac on March 18th, 2005 with comments disabled.
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The .ie cctld is a minisule top level domain by .com standards. It has approximately 45000 registered domains most of which are Irish and Irish related. During the dot.bomb period, speculative domain registration was rife. Most of these speculative domains lapsed and were never renewed, the registrants disappearing as the dot.bomb tide receded into the distance of academic research. The Ebay.ie and Qxl.ie registrations had their own stories. They were registered by Irish limited companies of the same names but the companies had nothing in common with the internet auction businesses of of the same name. They were legitimate .ie cctld registrations. Both Irish companies had a connection to Irish auction website ebid.ie but were never active. The WIPO site shows that there was an action regarding Ebay.ie but the action was terminated. The Ebay.ie domain was transferred in the last two weeks to Ebay’s own nameservers.
Tag: IrishBlogs , IEDR, Ebay , ccTLD
Written by John McCormac on March 18th, 2005 with 1 comment.
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The BBC reports that US food corporation Kraft won Milka.fr from French fashion designer Milka Budimir. The principle of large companies protecting their trademarks and brands in ccltds is an old one. Many cctlds now have dispute resolution procedures that are based on ICANN models. The .ie resolution procedure is shown on the WIPO page detailing .ie cctld. The domains that went as far as the dispute resolution procedure were shopelectric.ie, ebay.ie and office1.ie. The number of French (.fr) domains that involved in dispute resolution seems small as well with four decisions in 2004 and one case pending in 2005.
The .ie cctld has been rather lucky when it comes to examples of glaring me-too registration attempts. The examples of ebay.ie and qxl.ie were dot.bomb echoes. Both domains had an associated Irish limited company. In the directorship of both companies, there was a connection to Irish auction website ebid.ie which sought to replicate Ebay’s success in Ireland with a comparatively miniscule market and poor technology. The Ebay.ie domain was transferred to Ebay in the last two weeks and now points to Ebay’s site.
A Microsoft related registration msn.ie changed ownership recently but the original site had all the appearance of one of the few remaining Irish dot.bomb ventures, Online.ie though it was clearly evident that it was not owned or operated by Online.ie.
Tags: ICANN , Domains, URDP , IEDR
Written by John McCormac on March 18th, 2005 with comments disabled.
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