Comments on: Is New Legislation A Death Warrant For IEDR? http://blog.whoisireland.com/2007/02/03/is-new-legislation-a-death-warrant-for-iedr/ Search Engines, Domains, Statistics and Analysis Sun, 14 Mar 2010 09:23:03 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.4 by: John McCormac http://blog.whoisireland.com/2007/02/03/is-new-legislation-a-death-warrant-for-iedr/#comment-62335 Sun, 08 Apr 2007 15:20:08 +0000 http://blog.whoisireland.com/2007/02/03/is-new-legislation-a-death-warrant-for-iedr/#comment-62335 Due to historical mismanagement, .ie is not exactly a world player. Most of the bigger trademark holders don't take that much notice of it. However Adidas did take and win an IEDRP against Eubrowser over the cybersquatting of adidas.ie. There are other clear infringements of intellectual property in .ie as well. The US has the Cybersquatting legislation which makes it easier to prosecute a number of offences at once. With .ie, each case has to be treated separately. Due to historical mismanagement, .ie is not exactly a world player. Most of the bigger trademark holders don’t take that much notice of it. However Adidas did take and win an IEDRP against Eubrowser over the cybersquatting of adidas.ie. There are other clear infringements of intellectual property in .ie as well. The US has the Cybersquatting legislation which makes it easier to prosecute a number of offences at once. With .ie, each case has to be treated separately.

]]> by: Lex Ferenda » Dot IE and the Communications Regulation (Amendment) Bill http://blog.whoisireland.com/2007/02/03/is-new-legislation-a-death-warrant-for-iedr/#comment-56068 Thu, 08 Feb 2007 20:04:22 +0000 http://blog.whoisireland.com/2007/02/03/is-new-legislation-a-death-warrant-for-iedr/#comment-56068 [...] And John at whoisireland.com says: 32.—(3) The Commission may make regulations for the purposes of this section, but only after consultation with the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment and such other persons and public bodies (if any) as the Commission thinks appropriate. [...] […] And John at whoisireland.com says: 32.—(3) The Commission may make regulations for the purposes of this section, but only after consultation with the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment and such other persons and public bodies (if any) as the Commission thinks appropriate. […]

]]> by: cearta.ie » Blog Archive » New Bills http://blog.whoisireland.com/2007/02/03/is-new-legislation-a-death-warrant-for-iedr/#comment-56011 Wed, 07 Feb 2007 17:56:56 +0000 http://blog.whoisireland.com/2007/02/03/is-new-legislation-a-death-warrant-for-iedr/#comment-56011 [...] Updates: There are good discussions of the Bill in ElectricNews.net and by Barry O’Halloran in the Irish Times. John McCormac on whoisireland has written an extremely interesting and very detailed post on the IEDR issue. Required reading, methinks. And IEDR seem to have taken some pre-emptive action; according to a report in the Sunday Business Post, they cut the cost of a .ie domain name by 13% last week, and have begun to extoll its virtues: Proponents of the dot.ie domain say that it discourages spam and cyber squatting, and reassures customers and clients of the legitimacy of the domain owner’s business. [...] […] Updates: There are good discussions of the Bill in ElectricNews.net and by Barry O’Halloran in the Irish Times. John McCormac on whoisireland has written an extremely interesting and very detailed post on the IEDR issue. Required reading, methinks. And IEDR seem to have taken some pre-emptive action; according to a report in the Sunday Business Post, they cut the cost of a .ie domain name by 13% last week, and have begun to extoll its virtues: Proponents of the dot.ie domain say that it discourages spam and cyber squatting, and reassures customers and clients of the legitimacy of the domain owner’s business. […]

]]> by: Legislation Affecting IE domains - Irish SEO, Marketing & Webmaster Discussion http://blog.whoisireland.com/2007/02/03/is-new-legislation-a-death-warrant-for-iedr/#comment-55962 Tue, 06 Feb 2007 22:32:01 +0000 http://blog.whoisireland.com/2007/02/03/is-new-legislation-a-death-warrant-for-iedr/#comment-55962 [...] Legislation Affecting IE domains Irish Government To Kill IE ccTLD? Is New Legislation A Death Warrant For IEDR? - WhoisIreland Review __________________ Armchair.ie | work|Blog Tips|Seo tips|EU Domain ScandalTechie Toys| Gadgets Do you want your vbulletin site to be search engine friendly? Click here for info [...] […] Legislation Affecting IE domains Irish Government To Kill IE ccTLD? Is New Legislation A Death Warrant For IEDR? - WhoisIreland Review __________________ Armchair.ie | work|Blog Tips|Seo tips|EU Domain ScandalTechie Toys| Gadgets Do you want your vbulletin site to be search engine friendly? Click here for info […]

]]> by: Irish Government To Kill IE ccTLD? http://blog.whoisireland.com/2007/02/03/is-new-legislation-a-death-warrant-for-iedr/#comment-55959 Tue, 06 Feb 2007 21:59:00 +0000 http://blog.whoisireland.com/2007/02/03/is-new-legislation-a-death-warrant-for-iedr/#comment-55959 [...] While I was in LA last week John sent me details of the Communications Regulation (Amendment) Bill 2007. [...] […] While I was in LA last week John sent me details of the Communications Regulation (Amendment) Bill 2007. […]

]]> by: John McCormac http://blog.whoisireland.com/2007/02/03/is-new-legislation-a-death-warrant-for-iedr/#comment-55757 Sun, 04 Feb 2007 02:28:39 +0000 http://blog.whoisireland.com/2007/02/03/is-new-legislation-a-death-warrant-for-iedr/#comment-55757 It is an interesting bit of legislation Eoin, It goes a lot farther than most people expected and I don't expect IEDR to be pleased with it. Some people in the industry are a bit worried as it might involve educating ComReg on the domains business and everyone has seen how well it has handled telcoms issues. I only picked it up because I'm still on the press list for the department. Ironically none of the Irish "technology" press seems to have looked at it. It was hardly being introduced in the same stealthy way that the data retention stuff was introduced. Nobody on the board of IEDR has any expertise in the domain/hosting business. In any genuine company, the board is meant to be a resource of expertise. If there had been real expertise and a chairman with industry expertise, then the .ie ccTLD would be in a lot better health than it is. Now it is competing with .com/net/org/biz/info/eu for registrations and almost breaking even. The lack of a personal subdomain means that all those new webmasters and personal registrations go right to .com/net/org/biz/info/eu rather than .ie ccTLD. That's tragic because .ie does not represent the Ireland as a result. The decision was made, years ago by people who didn't have a clue about the domain business to keep .ie for businesses. It may have been a political decision or it could have been an IEDR one. In any case it was both wrong and stupid. But then with IEDR being a dumping ground for UCD and Telecom Eireann, commercial knowledge was scarce. These guys just weren't capable of operating in a free market and as the Fagan years demonstrated, were not capable of operating a registry. Most of these amendments stem from that time. By giving ComReg the policy aspect and involving others in the decision making process it brings .ie ccTLD into the 20th century. But the penalties, including the appointment of an interim authority are the equivalent of strategic nuclear weapons. At the moment, the industry/IEDR relationship has improved considerably. Though legally everything still exists at the whim of IEDR management. It is David Curtin who has effectively turned the operation around. Perhaps the legislation is to be used more for deterrence and to keep IEDR working well. I wouldn't be surprised to see resignations from the board of IEDR if this thing becomes law as most of the board are there purely for CV purposes rather than to offer any expertise. For those of us who watched the near destruction of .ie in recent years, the legislation is long overdue. It is an interesting bit of legislation Eoin,
It goes a lot farther than most people expected and I don’t expect IEDR to be pleased with it. Some people in the industry are a bit worried as it might involve educating ComReg on the domains business and everyone has seen how well it has handled telcoms issues.

I only picked it up because I’m still on the press list for the department. Ironically none of the Irish “technology” press seems to have looked at it. It was hardly being introduced in the same stealthy way that the data retention stuff was introduced.

Nobody on the board of IEDR has any expertise in the domain/hosting business. In any genuine company, the board is meant to be a resource of expertise. If there had been real expertise and a chairman with industry expertise, then the .ie ccTLD would be in a lot better health than it is. Now it is competing with .com/net/org/biz/info/eu for registrations and almost breaking even. The lack of a personal subdomain means that all those new webmasters and personal registrations go right to .com/net/org/biz/info/eu rather than .ie ccTLD. That’s tragic because .ie does not represent the Ireland as a result.

The decision was made, years ago by people who didn’t have a clue about the domain business to keep .ie for businesses. It may have been a political decision or it could have been an IEDR one. In any case it was both wrong and stupid. But then with IEDR being a dumping ground for UCD and Telecom Eireann, commercial knowledge was scarce. These guys just weren’t capable of operating in a free market and as the Fagan years demonstrated, were not capable of operating a registry.

Most of these amendments stem from that time. By giving ComReg the policy aspect and involving others in the decision making process it brings .ie ccTLD into the 20th century. But the penalties, including the appointment of an interim authority are the equivalent of strategic nuclear weapons.

At the moment, the industry/IEDR relationship has improved considerably. Though legally everything still exists at the whim of IEDR management. It is David Curtin who has effectively turned the operation around.

Perhaps the legislation is to be used more for deterrence and to keep IEDR working well. I wouldn’t be surprised to see resignations from the board of IEDR if this thing becomes law as most of the board are there purely for CV purposes rather than to offer any expertise.

For those of us who watched the near destruction of .ie in recent years, the legislation is long overdue.

]]> by: Eoin http://blog.whoisireland.com/2007/02/03/is-new-legislation-a-death-warrant-for-iedr/#comment-55755 Sun, 04 Feb 2007 00:58:16 +0000 http://blog.whoisireland.com/2007/02/03/is-new-legislation-a-death-warrant-for-iedr/#comment-55755 Couldn't agree more, and I've said so on <a href="http://www.cearta.ie/?p=80" rel="nofollow">m blog</a>. Couldn’t agree more, and I’ve said so on m blog.

]]> by: cearta.ie » Blog Archive » New Bills http://blog.whoisireland.com/2007/02/03/is-new-legislation-a-death-warrant-for-iedr/#comment-55754 Sun, 04 Feb 2007 00:51:59 +0000 http://blog.whoisireland.com/2007/02/03/is-new-legislation-a-death-warrant-for-iedr/#comment-55754 [...] Update: John McCormac on whoisireland has written an extremely interesting and very detailed post on this issue. Required reading, methinks. [...] […] Update: John McCormac on whoisireland has written an extremely interesting and very detailed post on this issue. Required reading, methinks. […]

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