Privacy, Your info, and Social Media

How many of us actually read social media terms of use? When you tweet you: grant Twitter a licence to use, copy, reproduce, process, adapt, modify, publish, transmit, display and distribute content in any manner or method. Twitter may sublicense these rights to third...

Domain Names as Personal Property

Recent Ontario Superior Court of Justice decision has determined that “.ca” domain names are personal property independent of any registration in any public office. Now there is a precedent for recovering a highjacked domain name. The examples of highjacking we see? A...

ICANN moving ON

US government to end formal relationship with ICANN The U.S. National Telecommunications and Information Administration will end its formal relationship with the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers in late 2015, with ICANN developing a new global...

Getty Gives Free Access to 35 Million Photos!

Getty Images, who seem to own the rights to every photograph in the world, announced yesterday that they will offer 35 million of their stock photos for free for editorial, non-commercial online use. Starting March 6, Users will select an image from the Getty Images...

Many New Domain Name Extensions Now Available

As You may be aware, a mass of new domain name extensions, (the bit beyond the .) are now available, with many more to follow. Attached is the list of currently available extensions, one or more of which may be of interest to you or your firm. Don’t miss out on the...