Domain Names
15 September 2012
New ICANN CEO is Out of the Blocks Two Weeks Early with Ambitious Operational Plans
Fadi Chehadé officially assumed the position of President and Chief Executive Officer of ICANN Friday, two weeks ahead of his planned start date.
12 September 2012
Go Daddy Outage Not Hacker Related
The Go Daddy outage Monday that saw extensive service interruptions to its webhosting operations was not caused by hackers or other "external influences" the company said, but rather "due to a series of internal network events that corrupted router data tables."
11 September 2012
Go Daddy Suffers Major Outage With Possible Hack Attack
The world's largest web hosting provider and domain name registrar Go Daddy found its web hosting services down and email not going through Monday afternoon after an apparent failure of the company's Domain Name Service servers, possibly due to a hacker attack.
Launch of kiwi.nz Pushes .NZ Registrations Over Half-Million Mark InternetNZ
InternetNZ subsidiary the Domain Name Commission has today launched a new second level domain - .kiwi.nz - a move that has pushed the total number of .nz registrations past 500,000.
10 September 2012
Australian Internet Governance Forum To Help Shape Local Internet
An Internet Governance Forum is coming to the Australian capital of Canberra in October with the goal of bringing government, industry and community members together in an open, apolitical forum, to discuss Internet-related policy issues, exchange ideas and best practices, and help shape the future of the internet in Australia.
.AU Passes 2.5 Million Registered Domains
The number of registered .AU (Australia) domain names passed the 2.5 million mark in late August, auDA and AusRegistry announced.
07 September 2012
Setting the GAC up to succeed by Yasmin Omer, ARI Registry Services ARI Registry Services
Yasmin Omer, ARI Registry Service's Policy and Industry Affairs Officer, explains why ICANN should offer the Governmental Advisory Committee an extra meeting in January to avoid further delays in the new Top-Level Domain program.
06 September 2012
ICANN: New gTLD Applicant Update (5 September 2012) ICANN
Review of Applicant Support Program to Begin This Month: ICANN created the Applicant Support Program to provide financial and non-financial assistance to qualifying new gTLD applicants. By the end of the application window we had received three applications that will now be reviewed by an independent Support Applicant Review Panel.
Brand Owners Want to Rev Up RPMs by Philip Corwin, Internet Commerce Association Internet Commerce Association
On the afternoon of Wednesday, September 5th ICA attended a meeting on rights protection mechanisms (RPMs) for new gTLDs held at the U.S. Department of Commerce in Washington. About 40 persons attended in person, with another half dozen connected by phone, and almost all of them were from law firms, trade associations, corporations, and consultancies representing major brand interests. ICA was the only party in the room with a registrant-centric perspective and, while we understand brand owners' concerns regarding the prospective costs of defensive registrations and the cybersquatting potential associated with 1410 unique new gTLDs, we also want to assure that registrant due process rights don't get trampled as those concerns are addressed.
Brief History of .CN, What Registrars Want And Euro Updates: Centr Monthly Roundup
A brief history of .CN domain name registrations is the feature of the latest Centr report, from its rapid growth from 2007 to 2009 when .CN registrations peaked at almost 14 million, and then the rapid decline that ended in late 2010.
05 September 2012
The Perils Of Forgetting to Renew A Domain Name
Forgetting to renew a domain name can have several consequences. It can cause a loss of business, hassles in getting the domain name reregistered and a competitor may register it.
Go Daddy Auctions And Sedo Show Dips In Domain Sales
In August Go Daddy Auctions sold 31,481 domain names compared to 33,373 in July, a drop of 1892 for the month. The drop in sales is also reflected in quarterly sales figures with 103,831 domain names sold in the quarter ending 30 June (quarter two) compared to 126,966 in the quarter ending 31 March (quarter one), a drop of 23,135.
04 September 2012
DOJ/ICE Domain Seizures Questioned by U.S. House Members by Philip Corwin Internet Commerce Association
On August 30th three members of the U.S. House of Representatives sent a letter to Attorney General Eric Holder and Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano raising questions about the legality and methodology of the Operations In Our Sites domain seizure program jointly launched by those Cabinet Departments in November 2010.
31 August 2012
Brussels TMCH Meeting Summary Notes
A recent meeting hosted by Deloitte on 20-21 August in Brussels between the technical providers of registry and registrar services and the ICANN-selected vendors for the Trademark Clearinghouse (TMCH) service (Deloitte and IBM) has been summarised by Jeff Neuman, Vice President of Business Affairs at Neustar.
ICANN Goes To Durban in July 2013
ICANN announced this week it will be holding its second meeting for 2013, and 47th all told, in Durban, South Africa. It will be the second time the organisation has held a meeting in South Africa, with Cape Town being the venue for the 21st meeting in December 2004.
28 August 2012
Mobileapps.com Is Yours For $1m
The operator of the website for mobileapps.com has hit on hard times and is selling the domain name, with bids starting at $1 million.
Legal Information Provider Misleads On Rising Domain Disputes Story
Never let facts get in the way of a good story. Sweet & Maxwell have gone on the warpath against cybersquatters saying that disputes over cybersquatting are at record numbers. They use the figures put out by the World Intellectual Property Organisation, claiming that WIPO "decided on nearly 3,000 cases in the 12 months to July 2012, the highest figure since 2007," according to a report in The Guardian.
27 August 2012
New gTLDs Unlikely To Have Negative Impact On Existing TLDs While ccTLDs Safe: at report
The impact of the introduction of hundreds of new generic Top Level Domains that will be available for the public to register domain names in is a hotly debated topic, and one that nic.at has done some research on for its latest .at report. The Austrian registry has a bet both ways here - along with their role with .AT, they also are providing registry services for a handful of gTLD applicants.
24 August 2012
Australian New gTLD Conference Coming In November
With the introduction of new generic Top Level Domains becoming a reality, a conference has been scheduled in Sydney, Australia, this coming November.
23 August 2012
US Seizes Three Domains Involved In Illegal Distribution Of Android Apps
Three domain names were seized as part of an enforcement action taken by the FBI to prevent the infringement of copyrighted mobile device apps. It was the first time domains involving mobile phone app marketplaces have been seized.
22 August 2012
New Book Gives A Beginners Guide To Domain Registration
Have you ever encountered someone who wants to register a domain name, but you don't have the time to explain how to go about it? Or even not sure about how to do it yourself and what the options are? A new book has now been published, electronically only for now, by domain name professional Steve Gobin that covers all the issues.
FairWinds Gives Their Solution To How To Process gTLD Applications
ICANN this week published a roadmap for processing new gTLD applications with their proposed replacement for digital archery method of selecting when applications will be processed, but there are differing views about this, along with several other issues. And FairWinds Partners has now given their solution.
21 August 2012
ICANN's Latest gTLD Update: 6 Applications Withdrawn, New Processing Roadmap And Digital Archery Replacements
The animals might have gone into Noah's Ark two-by-two, but it seems applicants for new gTLDs might be withdrawing their applications three-by-three!
14 August 2012
ICANN Releases New gTLD Progress Report
ICANN have published a progress report on new gTLD applications which is an overview of a webinar they hosted last week.
11 August 2012
ICANN Extends New gTLD Application Comment Period by 45 Days
ICANN announced Friday they extended the public comment period for new generic top level domains applications for an additional 45 days. The new end date is 26 September 2012.
