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.sucks "Gag Order" Dropped, Approved
April 19, 2016 @ 3:30 AMVox Populi, the .sucks registry, has had controversial changes to its registrar contract approved after it softened language some had compared to a “gag order”. ICANN approved changes to the .suck Registry-Registrar Agreement last week, after receiving no further complaints from registrar stakeholders. Registrars had been upset by a proposed change that they said would…
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Facebook, Under Chinese Court Threat, Transfers Instagram.com to Its New Registrar
April 19, 2016 @ 2:18 AMIt’s not quite cyberflight, but Facebook has transferred threatened domain name instagram.com to its newly acquired in-house registrar. Whois records show that the domain, used for the popular photo-sharing social network, was moved from MarkMonitor to RegistrarSEC yesterday. It emerged on Friday that Facebook had recently acquired RegistrarSEC. So why the transfer? It does not…
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Burr to Replace Tonkin On ICANN Board
April 19, 2016 @ 1:38 AMICANN lifer Becky Burr is to replace Bruce Tonkin on the ICANN board of directors when his term expires in November. She’ll take the seat reserved for the Contracted Parties House of the Generic Names Supporting Organization, following a vote by registries and registrars a few weeks ago. Tonkin, CTO of Aussie registrar Melbourne IT,…
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Lady Gaga Beats Cybersquatter
April 18, 2016 @ 8:34 AMMusician gets LadyGaga.mobi domain name through cybersquatting dispute. If you cybersquatted on a bunch of famous peoples’ names on .mobi domain names, would anyone care? Apparently Lady Gaga does. Stefani Germanotta filed a cybersquatting complaint against Nancy Faralisz of The Michigan Initiative LLC over the domain name LadyGaga.mobi. Faralisz didn’t respond to the complaint and…
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Rue Du Commerce Goes 0-for-3 in UDRP, But No RDNH
April 18, 2016 @ 5:11 AMA rare 0-for-3 in a UDRP. French online retailer Rue Du Commerce lost all three elements in its recent UDRP filing against a Mexican company called Siru over the domain name SiruEcommerce.com. But Czech Arbitration Court panelist Dr. Thomas Schafft didn’t consider reverse domain name hijacking. The case was particularly egregious. The most notable issue…
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Chinese Domain Name Company Ename Announces Initial Public Offering
April 16, 2016 @ 6:44 AMChinese domain name company announces IPO. eName has announced its plans to go public, following the merger/acquisition of 4.cn earlier this year. The company had 2015 revenue of 260 million(CNY) ($40 million USD) and net income is 27.9 million(CNY) ($4.3 million). That compares to 2014 revenue of 168 million(CNY) ($26 million USD) and net income…
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Internet Grows to 314 Million Domain Names in the Fourth Quarter of 2015
April 14, 2016 @ 11:53 PMVeriSign today announced that approximately 15 million domain names were added to the Internet in the fourth quarter of 2015, bringing the total number of registered domain names to approximately 314 million worldwide across all top-level domains (TLDs) as of Dec. 31, 2015, according to the latest Domain Name Industry Brief.
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Facebook Bought a Registrar
April 14, 2016 @ 2:50 PMFacebook has acquired a domain name registrar, according to its point person in ICANN. Facebook domain manager Susan Kawaguchi said on tonight’s GNSO Council teleconference, as a matter of disclosure, that Facebook recently acquired a registrar. Multiple sources say the registrar is RegistrarSEC LLC. DI records show that RegistrarSEC took over the ICANN registrar accreditation…
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Facebook Now Owns a Domain Name Registrar
April 14, 2016 @ 2:48 PMCompany acquires existing domain name registrar. Facebook now owns a domain name registrar. As spotted by Pinky Brand today, the company has acquired RegistrarSec. Weekly email report from #ICANN indicates that #FaceBook has acquired a registrar <a href="https://t.co/nF6qqUgri2" rel="nofollow">https://t.co/nF6qqUgri2</a> — Pinky Brand (@pinkybrand) April 14, 2016 The registrar has only a handful of domain names and focuses…
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Man Files UDRP Against His Ex-wife
April 14, 2016 @ 11:20 AMMaybe you shouldn’t let your spouse register domain names for you. I’m sure there are a lot of allegations made against ex-spouses. But calling your ex-wife a cybersquatter? An Ontario man filed a UDRP against his ex-wife over the domain name StrategicChoiceArchitecture.com. His wife registered the domain name for him while she was managing certain…
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