Most readers are probably aware that the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has recently introduced a process to open up the domain system to a myriad of new generic Top Level Domains (gTLDs). In this context “generic” may be somewhat of a misnomer, because a number of the domains applied for correspond … Continue reading “Fun and Games in ICANN’s new gTLD Process”
Author: Jacqueline Lipton
Jacqueline Lipton is the Baker Botts Professor of Law and Co-Director of the Institute for Intellectual Property and Information Law at the University of Houston Law Center. Prior to her academic work, she practiced as an attorney in the banking and finance area in several Australian commercial law firms as well as a brief stint as a member of the in-house counsel team at a major Australian bank. Her scholarship focuses on law and digital technology, as well as law and the creative arts, each with an international/comparative slant. She is the co-author of multiple editions of a leading cyberspace casebook Cyberspace Law: Cases and Materials, (with Professor Raymond S. R. Ku) as well as sole author of Internet Domain Names, Trademarks and Free Speech (Edward Elgar, 2010) and Security Over Intangible Property (LBC Thompson, 2000). She has published in leading law reviews in the United States, Europe and Australia, including the Northwestern University Law Review, Boston College Law Review, Washington University Law Review, Hastings Law Journal, UC Davis Law Review, Washington and Lee Law Review, Iowa Law Review, Harvard Journal of Law and Technology, Berkeley Technology Law Journal.