News on Internet Domains

GENEVA (Reuters) - Comedian and talk show host Jay Leno has won a cybersquatting case against a Texas man found by a U.N. agency to have misused the domain name thejaylenoshow.com to direct Internet users to a real estate website. In a ruling issued on Thursday, the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) said Leno had common law trademark rights to his name after a 30-year career in entertainment, even though Guadalupe Zambrano registered the site in 2004. Furthermore, real estate agent Zambrano did not have any legitimate rights to ...

The former cybersecurity chief at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is now the head of ICANN, a primary internet governance organization. The CEO appointment of Rod Beckstrom, 48, was announced at ICANN's international meeting in Sydney, Australia. He was the former director of the DHS National Cybersecurity Center (NCSC), and had quit March 13 in a dispute over the direction the agency was ...

The Internet agency with key oversight of the monikers behind every Web site, e-mail address and Twitter post named former U.S. cybersecurity chief Rod Beckstrom Friday as its next chief executive. The board of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers approved his hiring in a voice vote Friday as ICANN capped weeklong meetings in Sydney, Australia. Beckstrom becomes CEO next Wednesday. Beckstrom, who had resigned after less than a year as cybersecurity director ...