Press release and ICANN Meeting, New gTLD topics

It has been longer than usual since our last blog, the reason being the many activities regarding ISSCIO.com that we have been doing.

To begin with, ISSCIO.com was announced in Japan through a press release to our colleges, partners and clients. Immediately after the press release we experienced a spike in visits to the site, as expected. But what is more importent, many of our clients and partners are now enquiring about the site when we visit them. They want to know more about it, its potential as a communication tool and the ways to get involved. It may take some time until everybody "gets" ISSCIO.com, but surely we are heading in that direction.

We also had the chance to introduce ISSCIO.com to some participants of the 39th ICANN meeting in Cartagena, Colombia. Most of them were Top Level Domain (TLD) registries and some registrars, meaning that many Domain Name topics will get information directly from the source.

Additionally, in the ICANN event we had the chance to meet with many potential New gTLDs (which were one of the main "attractions" of the meeting). New gTLD initiatives are expected to be launching once the program starts and will revolutionize the domain name space, today limited to .com and other few generic TLD and country code TLDs (like .jp).

From an Intellectual Property perspective, many new TLDs means that trademark holders do have to know how to protect their rights in every one of them. Thus knowing in advance what each New gTLD initiative has planned for trademark protection mechanisms is very useful information. Therefore, from this month we are adding New gTLD topics to ISSCIO.com, like DotXXX (.xxx) or DotFree (.free). More important we are contacting directly the people behind each initiative to help us complete the information in each topic. So please keep visiting ISSCIO.com to be up to date with these New gTLDs.

Finally, let me wish everybody in the ISSCIO.com community a happy holiday season. We also would like to thank you for your support and for helping us make ISSCIO.com community a little better every day. Let that continue next year.

Best wishes,

Lucas Vall
General Manager