Impact of New gTLDs and Internationalized Domains on Trade Marks Holders El bashir.impact of new gtl ds and idns on trade marks holders - inta dubai conference december 2013
Presentation in International Trademark Association "INTA" hot TM topics in Middle East, Africa and South Asia Region held in Dubai from 9 to 10 December 2013.
My presentation is about the impact of Impact of New gTLDs and Internationalized Domains which started being launched on Trade Marks Holders.
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Impact of New gTLDs and Internationalized Domains on Trade Marks Holders El bashir.impact of new gtl ds and idns on trade marks holders - inta dubai conference december 2013
1. The Internet is Changing
Impact of New gTLDs and Internationalized Domains on
Trade Marks Holders
Mohamed El Bashir
Chairman, Steering Committee – dotAFRICA
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Biggest Internet Changes since its creation
1930 new gTLD Applications received by ICANN
1805 Passed Evaluation Stages, 27 has already been delegated
dotAnything Era
Source : http://www.cramton.umd.edu/ca/aa/
6. Domains Names are the Online Real Estate
-Domain names are foundations on which a website (like a house or commercial building) can be built
-The highest "quality" domain names, like sought-after real estate, has significant value
Source : ARI Registry Services
7. Impact on Business and Internet Users
-Users ( Freedom of Choice or Confusion )
-Business ( Innovation or Burden )
-Geo-TLD (.AFRICA, JOBURG, .DOHA, .DUBAI, .ABUDHABI, .PARIS, .LONDON, …etc )
-Local Focus Vs Global Business
-Trademarks and brands Protection ( Sunrise, Land-rush periods )
-Trade Marks Clearing House “TMCH” and Registry Trade Marks Validation
11.
Internet Demography is Changing
Internet users 2.7 billion
Chinese Internet users reached
560 million ( about 22% of total
internet users)
Growing Arabic Internet users
( + 70 million )
The Majority of Internet next
billion users will be non –English
Speaking
12. Domain Names System “DNS”
Generic Top Level
Domains
ASCII “English” Generic
Top Level Domains
ASCII “English” Generic
Top Level Country Codes
name.com
name.AE
name.co.ZA
New Internationalized
Country Code Top Level
Domains
Domain Names in
Arabic, Chinese, Cyrillic
موقعي.قطر
موقعي.امارات
موقعي.السعودية
موقعي.مصر
мой сайт.рф
New Internationalized
new Generic Top Level
Domains
Domain Names in
Arabic, Chinese, Cyrillic
.شبكة
.موقع
13. Statue of Internationalized Domains Registrations
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New Domains in Cyrillic, Chinese, Hindi, Arabic, ….
More than 10 Delegated Arabic IDN ccTLD strings in the root
Countries include ( Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Emirates, Qatar, Jordan,
Tunis, Morocco, Algeria, Palestine )
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IDN registrations service launched ( Saudi Arabia, Emirates, Qatar, Jordan, Tunis )
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Russian Domains (.ru) reached more than 1 million registrations
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Arabic IDN ccTLD Implementation Challenges :
– Linguistic
– Technical
– Research and Development
internet users are increasingly rely on search engines and portals rather than domain names as their primary navigation tools. Search engines support of Arabic domain names is improving and progressing.