ICANN To Reduce “Unreachable” Whois Registrations By 50% In 1 Year?
Review Team Asks for Community Comment on Draft Recommendations that Could Bring Big Changes to Whois
Whois allows you to look up the name and contact information of whoever operates any website domain – or at least, it should. But it isn’t always accurate. In some cases, Whois contact information is ...
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CIRA On The Road To Introducing .CA IDNs With French Characters
The Canadian Internet Registration Authority (CIRA) has launched the second and final phase of its consultation in the implementation of French characters (also known as Internationalised Domain Names, or IDNs) in .CA domain names. .CA holders and Canadian internet users are invited to provide their feedback on certain revisions to ...
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And Then It Was Quiet On The Domain Sales Front In The Week To Christmas…
A quiet week for domain name sales in the week to 25 December according to Domain Name Journal’s list of reported sales. My.net was the top seller for a comparatively small £49,000 ($75,950) through Sedo followed by vintageporn.com for $60,000 through HuntingMoon.
Third biggest seller for the week also pipped the ...
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ARI Registry Services Signs 21 Contracts In The First Week Of Applications
The opening of the application window for new Top Level Domains on 12 January by ICANN has seen a flurry of interest from business in particular. ARI Registry Services have announced this has led to it signing 21 contracts to provide technical registry services for the same number of within ...
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Business Awareness of New TLDs Sorely Lacking: Adrian Kinderis
This is the first of a series of articles on new TLDs as a result of interviews with leading industry players. In this first article we interview Adrian Kinderis, CEO of ARI Registry Services who is forthright in his views on TLDs, how business outside North America is showing little ...
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The Wayward Anti-Cybersquatter Consumer Protection Act: A Survey of 11 Years of ACPA Caselaw by Roberrt Cannon, Federal Communications Commission; Cybertelecom
Abstract: The Anti-Cybersquatting Consumer Protection Act (ACPA) has lost its way. The ACPA was passed in an era of domain name land grabs, where nefarious individuals would register and warehouse oodles of valuable domain names, and then extract ransom from bewildered trademark owners. Interstellar Starship Servs., Ltd. v. Epix, Inc., ...
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Kim Dotcom Owns Kim.com
Megaupload’s Kim Dotcom has certainly hit the headlines following his arrest in New Zealand last week. But one thing that had not yet been noted according to The Financial Times is that the German-born entrepreneur owns the domain name kim.com.
According to Whois records, Dotcom acquired the domain name in 2007 ...
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Nominet Seeks Views On Draft Members’ Code
As with any successful membership organisation, Nominet views it as important to review how they operate to ensure they are well equipped to deal with future challenges.
As part of this process, Nominet is seeking views from members on the possible introduction of a Members’ Code that will clarify the ...
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Premium Domains Announced For Moniker and SnapNames auction on At DOMAINfest Global
With the DOMAINfest Global Conference starting this coming week, details of the Moniker Domain Live Auction, combining low and no reserve plus premium domains across all price ranges and categories have been announced. Domains up for auction include Bargain.com, Democracy.com, Work.com, QR.com, Security.com, Host.com, Emails.com, Promo.com plus many more. The ...
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Verisign Announces Strong Growth As .COM Passes 100m Registrations
Total registrations of .COM and .NET domain names increased to 113.8 million at the end of 2011 representing an eight per cent increase year-on-year Verisign announced. The company also announced the total number of .COM and .NET registrations increased by 7.9 million registrations in the final quarter of 2011.
While Verisign ...
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