About the Book
An essential guide to navigating the shifting Internet landscape The Internet is about to profoundly change when it explodes from a 21 top level domain world to a 500 to a 1,000 .anything top level domain universe. How will you evolve your .com strategy? How will you keep your brands safe in the changing global Internet landscape? In an economic time where global brand protection is more important than ever and budgets are leaner, project leaders inside corporations will welcome the strategies revealed in Domain Names Rewired . Written for executives and branding professionals, this timely book equips you with the tools to address important issues your company will face when creating new brands or derivative brands, as well as protecting your existing brands and .com in a global changing Internet landscape. With this book, authors Jennifer C. Wolfe and Anne H. Chasser skillfully show branding executives and intellectual property lawyers how to increase the value and success of their initiatives within the next generation of the Internet. Features interviews with executives from the world's leading companies, including Procter & Gamble, Microsoft, Time Warner, Yahoo!,
Neustar, AUS Registry, ICANN, Remax, the International Trademark Association, Verizon, and many others Looks at relevant situations your corporation may deal with in creating new brands Provides expert guidance for protecting your existing .com and brand in an exponentially changing Internet world Offers ideas to consider disruptive innovation in expanding .com into .anything The rapidly changing new regime of the Internet is impacting the hundreds of millions of Internet users around the globe, not to mention every business that already has a .com. Maximize your opportunities in the changing digital world and stay ahead of the competitors with the visionary strategies found in Domain Names Rewired .
Table of Contents:
Preface ix Acknowledgments xxxi Chapter One The New Regime 1 An Overview of the Business Community Response to gTLDs 3 Potential Benefits for an Organization Applying for gTLDs 6 Potential Risk if Applying for gTLDs 13 The Business Model--How Can It Work? 15 Chapter One Highlights 23 Chapter Two The Brand Bubble 25 The .com Phenomenon 26 Protecting Trademark Owners 31 There's No Need for It 34 The Cost Is Just Too High 38 It's Not Fair to Small Businesses 40 What's the Value of Your .com Now? 42 It's All About Execution 44 Chapter Two Highlights 44 Chapter Three Building Your Brand and Social Media 47 The Emergence of Social Media and Online Communities 48 Experience with Social Media Marketing 49 What's Next? 51 It Could Change Everything 54 Chapter Three Highlights 60 Chapter Four Defending Your Brand 63 The New Domain Name Landscape 65 The Slippery Slope 75 Competitive Analysis 75 The Best Defense Is a Good Offense 77 Chapter Four Highlights 84 Chapter Five Behind the Scenes 87 How Internet Search Engines Work 88 Web Crawling 88 Meta Tags 91 Building the Index 91 The Next Generation of Search 92 Chapter Five Highlights 97 Chapter Six Forecasting the Future 99 A History Lesson 100 Interactive Initiatives and their Outcomes 107 Overstock.com--o.co Rebranding 108 Facebook Connect 109 Chapter Six Highlights 111 Chapter Seven Rewiring the Internet 115 A Few Final Conclusions 115 Begin with the End in Mind 123 A Few Key Predictions 128 Chapter Seven Highlights and Concluding Trends 131 Appendix A The History and Changing Landscape of the Top-Level Domain 135 Committed Companies 135 Other Major Companies 136 Learning from gTLD History 190 What Happened with .tv? 190 The Future of .tv 194 What's Different Now? 194 What Will Happen Next? 195 Appendix B Our Thought Leaders 197 Josh Bourne 197 Managing Partner, FairWinds Partners 197 Sarah B. Deutsch 198 Vice President and Associate General Counsel, Verizon Communication 198 Claudio Di Gangi 199 Manager, External Relations, Internet and the Judiciary, International Trademark Association 199 Cynthia L. Gibson 199 Executive Vice President, Legal Affairs, Scripps Networks Interactive Inc. 199 J. Scott Evans 200 Senior Legal Director, Head of Global Brand, Domains & Copyright, Yahoo! 200 Nancy H. Lutz 201 Partner, Kelley Drye & Warren, LLP 201 Steven W. Miller 201 Vice President and General Counsel, Intellectual Property, Procter & Gamble 201 Jeffrey J. Neuman 202 Vice President, Business Affairs, Enterprise Services, NeuStar, Inc. 202 Russell Pangborn 203 Associate General Counsel for Trademarks, Microsoft Corporation 203 Krista Papac 204 Chief Strategy Officer, ARI Registry Services 204 Katherine A. Ruwe 205 Senior Counsel, Global Litigation and Dispute Resolution, Procter & Gamble 205 Adam Scoville 206 Trademark and Brand Protection Counsel, RE/MAX, LLC 206 Ellen Shankman 206 Principal, Ellen B. Shankman and Associates 206 Yasmin R. Tavakoli 207 Associate, Kelley Drye & Warren, LLP 207 Fabricio Vayra 208 Trademark Attorney, Time Warner Inc. 208 Nick Wood 208 Managing Director, Com Laude 208 Works Cited 209 About the Authors 217 Index 219
About the Author :
JENNIFER C. WOLFE was recently named one of the top 300 global intellectual property strategists by IAM magazine for the second year in a row. She is the founder and CEO of Wolfe Domain, a global gTLD strategy advisory firm and co-managing partner of Wolfe-SBMC, a prominent woman-owned intellectual property law firm with offices in Cincinnati, New York City, and Spokane, Washington. She is a successful entrepreneur and was elected as the first female president of the Greater Cincinnati Venture Capital Association. She has helped found technology start-ups and serves on the boards of emerging growth companies. Clients served include: Microsoft, Nestle, Procter & Gamble, Duke Energy, FirstGroup America, and many emerging technology companies. She is a certified Six Sigma Black Belt in process improvement, nationally accredited in public relations, and has been a regular contributor to national legal and technology publications. She was recently appointed to serve on the Generic Names Supporting Organization Council of ICANN. ANNE H. CHASSER was named one of the 50 most influential people in the intellectual property world by Managing Intellectual Property magazine and served as commissioner of trademarks for the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office and president of the International Trademark Association. She has achieved top-level executive experience in both government and higher education administration as Associate Vice President for Intellectual Property at the University of Cincinnati and Director of Trademarks and Licensing at The Ohio State University. She has been trained in negotiation at Harvard and is widely recognized as a visionary thought leader in IP. She was recently inducted into the College Licensing Hall of Fame and is a member of the Trademark Public Advisory Committee for the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office. She also serves as an advisor to Wolfe Domain. This is the authors' second book. Their first book, Brand Rewired , was highly recognized as a forward-thinking innovative approach to brand development and protection by spanning silos within organizations.
