Tag Archives: ICANN

Sat 30th August 2008
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New Domain Extensions: Registries Should be Required To Give Trademark Holders Their Domains. - The domain industry got another black eye when Toyota.me became the highest priced .me domain sale, at over 90K. In the next few years there may be hundreds of new extensions (gTLD’s) and each one will increase the trademark problem, unless some policy is adopted to head it off. Trademark holders can apply for their domain during the sunrise period of a domain extension launch. Sunrise period application are always priced substantially higher than regular registration during the land rush.  For ... read more ...
Thu 28th August 2008
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Renew Domain Names Before Oct Price Increases - Renew domains before end of September to avoid additional fees. It’s that time of year again — time for VeriSign (NASDAQ: VRSN) and other registries to increase their wholesale price of domain names. VeriSign’s wholesale prices for .com and .net increase on October 1, 2008. The new .com price will be $6.86. With ICANN’s 20 cent fee that means the minimum cost to your registrar is $7.06. .Net prices will be $4.23 before ICANN’s fee. Earlier today Domain ... read more ...
Thu 21st August 2008
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Moniker.com Affiliate Summit Online Auction Closes Today - Moniker.com is holding an online auction through SnapNames.com for the Affiliate Summit Show. All auctions close at 3:15pm EST through Snapnames, unless extended based on Snapnames normal bidding rules. You can download the entire list of domains here: Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
Fri 8th August 2008
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ICANN on DNS Flaws - The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) announced in a press release today that it is raising awareness of a recently discovered vulnerability in the domain name system (DNS). ICANN also released an FAQ and an online tool for domain operators to test their domains. According to ICANN no one organization can implement a fix for this vulnerability. It requires the cooperation of all name server operators and DNS software vendors. However, ICANN sees an important goal in spreading ... read more ...
Sun 3rd August 2008
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Thu 31st July 2008
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ICANN To Offload Domains from De-Accredited Registrar - Who wants 1,440 domains? Good question. When RegisterFly lost its ICANN accreditation, GoDaddy swooped in to take over the registration of RegisterFly clients’ domain names. It was a nice pickup for GoDaddy of nearly 1 million domain names. So what happens when a small registrar with only 1,440 domain names under management loses its accreditation? That’s a good question, especially since a registrar has to endure a lot of trouble to get the domains. ICANN ... read more ...
Mon 21st July 2008
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ICANN Seeks Fix for Registry Failure - ICANN creating contingency plan for registry failure. We’ve seen domain registrars, such as RegisterFly, lose their accreditation. But what happens when a domain registry that manages an entire top level domain (TLD) goes out of business? This isn’t a far-fetched situation. Tralliance, the registry for .travel, almost when kaput last year. And with perhaps hundreds of new registries forming over the coming years as ICANN relaxes its restrictions for new top ... read more ...
Thu 17th July 2008
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The Danger of a Domain Registrar “Run on a Bank” - What happens when a domain registrar is in jeopardy? [Editor’s note: this is a follow up article to “A Run on the (Domain Name) Bank”, originally published on Domain Name Wire on November 13, 2007.] We’ve seen a lot of “runs on the bank” recently. Rumors spread that a bank is about to collapse. Nervous customers start pulling their money out of the bank, thus fulfilling the prophecy that the bank will collapse. What happens when there is a “run ... read more ...
Sun 6th July 2008
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ICANN Not Enforcing Rules Against Registrar Warehousing Because There Are No Rules - One of the leading domain attorneys we all know and love sent me an e-mail today about my Post the other day concerning Domain Registrars which warehouse expired domains of their customers instead of releasing them into a drop or auction. It seems that Paragraph 3.7.9 of the agreement between ICANN and the Regsitrars that we have been quoting to say: “”””Registrars shall abide by any ICANN adopted specifications or policies prohibiting or restricting warehousing of or speculation in domain ... read more ...
Mon 30th June 2008
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This is Your Chance to Tell ICANN How Registrars Should Act - ICANN announced that it is now accepting comments for proposed changes to the Registrar Accreditation Agreements, those agreements registrars sign with ICANN which in part, govern registrars conduct. This is the time that you can send a clear message to ICANN that certain practice of registrars should be outlawed and let them know of any instances of improper conduct on the part of registrars. Here is what we are going to send off in our comments and strongly suggest you do the same. ICANN should ... read more ...
 
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Maybe Getting that New Domain Extension Won’t be That Easy - Looking at the draft flow chart that ICANN has posted for the process of obtaining new extensions, it looks like it may not be a quick and easy process as the press described. Certainly you can count next year out. An extension can be knocked out by if it is “too similar to reserved names or existing TLD’s and /or likely to cause instability.” If it passes that test it still can be knocked out if someone files an objection, on any one of 4 grounds: String Confusion Existing legal rights Morality ... read more ...
 
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ICANN Fee Rule Change Won’t End Domain Tasting, Frontrunning - ICANN’s recent rule change will have mixed results. ICANN recently moved a step further to changing how it handles refunds for domain names in conjunction with the registry. Currently, ICANN charges a 20 cent fee per domain name registered. However, this fee is refundable along with the entire price of the domain registration if the domain is “returned” to the registry within 5 days. With the new rules, the 20 cent fee won’t be refundable after a registrar ... read more ...
Sun 29th June 2008
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New Extension .CYM: That Wouldn’t Confuse Anyone, Would It? - According to an article, New Whales is going for the .CYM extension for a Welsh websites. South Wales West AM Bethan Jenkins said the ICANN annoucement: “could, in effect, pave the way for the dotCYM domain name to be used for Welsh website addresses. It’s important that the world has access to everything that Wales has to offer and I believe that a dot CYM web address would be one way of achieving this.” Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
Sat 28th June 2008
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How Can A .xxx/.sex Extension Be OK Now? - I have read hundreds of stories about ICANN voting to allow the creation of an unlimited amount of domain extensions in the mainstream media.  Each and everyone of these article talks about an adult extension .xxx/.sex or some other version as a foregone conclusion in terms of popularity among users and applicants. The question is how can ICANN approve an adult extension now having turned down .xxx three times already? On March 30, 2007, just over a year ago, ICANN rejected the .xxx extension for ... read more ...
Fri 27th June 2008
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Fight Against New Extensions - This is a Guest Post by Seb ICANN is opening the door to a huge mess for companies of all size, SMBs to Fortune 500. Companies were used (should i say forced) to register their company name and brands in all new extensions ICANN would come up with : .eu / .mobi / .asia. These are nothing but defensive registrations, mostly not resolving or simply redirecting to the .com corporate site. On top of that, multinational companies faced an even bigger challenge registering, managing (or fighting for) ... read more ...
Thu 26th June 2008
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ICANN Opens Flood Gates To New Extensions - ICANN has unimously voted to allow an unlimited amount of new TLD’s, using any combination of letters and numbers, including non-Latin characters. In CNN article annoucing the decision it states in part: “””The decision could spell the end for traditional Web addresses ending .com and .org and country names like .jp or .fr with Web sites able to use easier-to-remember suffixes such as .hotel or .sex.”””” Of course the current US adminstration already nixed the .xxx extension. However ... read more ...
 
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ICANN Vote is Today - ICANN is expected to vote to approve a proposal which will open the flood gates creating an almost unlimited amount of domain extensions. Pricing seems to be set between $100K-$500K for each new extension. Any extension that get more than one proposal will wind up being auctioned off the the highest paying registry. This has already stired talk of some seven figures prices that will be paid for extensions like .sex or .xxx There is a ton of press coverage on this and here two interesting articles: Abc ... read more ...
 
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What Does ICANN’s ‘Yes’ Vote Mean to You? Not Much. - ICANN’s decision to liberalize the process for adding new TLDs won’t have much of an affect on you, unless you manage trademarks. Today ICANN voted to liberalize the process and acceptance of new top level domains (similar to .info and .asia). What does this mean to the average domainer and internet user? Despite the mainstream media sensationalizing this (.sex is coming!), I doubt it will add up to much. Trademark lawyers will have busy dockets. Depending ... read more ...
Tue 24th June 2008
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Some lift concerns over ICANN Plan for “New” Extensions - From the Paris ICANN’s meeting,  where every seat was filled, more than 1,400 participants attended the new top-level domain (TLD) workshop Monday afternoon. Reports from the meeting, have quoted various people having some negative comments about allowing hundreds of new extensions, Jay Scott Evans, former chair of ICANN’s Intellectual Property Constituency and senior legal advisor for Yahoo. said “Why should brand owners have to invest huge amounts of money to protect their brands,” he ... read more ...
 
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SCAM ALERT: ICANN UNDER PHISHING ATTACK AND THERE AFTER YOUR DOMAINS - I just received this message in my inbox, which looks like its from ICANN. You will be getting one too soon. Looks like a very sophisticated and organized phishing attack. They are not using an obviously fake web address. They are using the domain Icannresolve.com All the links on the page go back to Icann.org and resolve properly, however they are trying to trick you into entering your domain name, user id and password including the registrar the domain is registered with. The domain is registered ... read more ...
 
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ICANN Hit With Phishing Attack - Phishing attack mimics ICANN; asks for domain login information. A new phishing attack has been launched at domain name owners. It appears that the registrar where the phishing domain ICANNResolve.com was registered has taken it down. The e-mail used in the scam tells users that ICANN is upgrading all domain names in its database and that domain owners must submit their domain name information including username and password. The e-mail directs domain owners to ... read more ...
Mon 23rd June 2008
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So are we Ready For Hundreds of New Domain Extensions? - During the ICANN Meeting in Paris this week, ICANN annouced that it was seriously considering whether to opening up domain names to endless variations and approve hundreds of new extensions including .berlin, .paris, .quebec .cat (for Catalonia) and one for the big apple, .nyc “We’re talking about introducing potentially thousands more names,” said Paul Levins, executive officer of Icann “The addressing system hasn’t fundamentally changed since its invention. These changes have the potential ... read more ...
Sun 22nd June 2008
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Say Hello to .Tel - The newest Tld coming to market is .tel. Telnic Limited, the Registry Operator and Sponsoring Organization for the new sponsored top level domain .tel, today announced details for launch at the ICANN meeting in Paris. Sunrise applications from national trademark owners will be accepted on a first-come, first-served basis as of Wednesday, 3rd December 2008. Landrush registration, open to all at premium prices, will open on 3 February 2009 and general availability from 24 March 2009. Applications in ... read more ...
Fri 20th June 2008
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Network Solutions: “We’ll Stop Reserving if ICANN Adds Fee” - Network Solutions says it will stop controversial practice if ICANN adopts fee next week. Next week the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) board will vote on its 2009 budget. The budget includes the much-talked-about provision to make the ICANN registration fee (currently 20 cents) non refundable once a registrar’s deletions during the five day grace period exceed 10% of new registrations during a month. Network Solutions says it will ... read more ...
Tue 27th May 2008
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ICANN Puts eNom and Moniker “On Notice” - eNom and Moniker were named in “Worst Spam Offenders” report. In the words of Stephen Colbert, ICANN has put eNom and Moniker “On Notice”. The two registrars were named in a recent report from KnujOn titled “The 10 Worst Registrars in terms of spam advertised junk product sites”. That title is a bit misleading, or perhaps I’m the only one who doesn’t quite understand how KnujOn calculated which registrars were worst. The report (pdf) considered a ... read more ...