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ICANN Refuses to Play Ted Cruz's Game
April 8, 2016 @ 7:54 AMICANN has blown off US senator Ted Cruz by declining to answer a bunch of framed questions about its engagement with China. In a letter (pdf) to Cruz and fellow senators Michael Lee and James Lankford, ICANN chair Steve Crocker testily explains that ICANN has offices and relationships all over the world, given the nature…
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Domainfest Asia 2016 Dates Announced
April 8, 2016 @ 6:45 AMThe organizers of the DomainFest Asia conference have announced the dates and location of this year’s conference. DomainFest Asia 2016 will take place September 19-22 at the Cyberport in Hong Kong. The event is in conjunction with the Internet of Names conference. I understand that the location is fairly close to downtown Hong Kong, so people traveling from out of town would likely fly into Hong Kong. I am not familiar with the area though, so before booking your hotel, it would be advisable to do some local research. The sparse conference website promises that more information about the conference…
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ICANN to Ted Cruz: The Internet is Global, So Shove It
April 8, 2016 @ 5:31 AMNaming group reminds Ted Cruz that the U.S. doesn’t own the internet. ICANN has responded to Senator Ted Cruz’ continued questioning by not exactly answering his questions. Cruz is miffed that the naming policy overseer engages with China, and questioned its former CEO’s agreement to work with China’s World Internet Conference. Cruz demanded answers to…
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Nominet Has Sights Set On .org After M+M Deal
April 8, 2016 @ 3:10 AMNominet chief Russell Haworth is hopeful that its new outsourcing deal with Minds + Machines will help it win a much more lucrative back-end contract — .org. The company is among the 20-plus companies that have responded to Public Interest Registry’s request for proposals, as its back-end deal with Afilias comes to an end. Nominet…
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Minds + Machines Dumps Back-end and Registrar in Nominet, Uniregistry Deals
April 8, 2016 @ 12:35 AMMinds + Machines is to get out of the registrar and back-end registry services markets in separate deals with Nominet and Uniregistry. The cost-saving shake-up will lead to about 10 job losses, or about 25% to 30% of its current headcount, CEO Toby Hall told DI this morning. Under the Nominet deal, M+M will outsource…
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Council Member of .sport Applicant Sportaccord is On U.S. Sanctions List
April 7, 2016 @ 9:50 AMPresence on list could create a problem for .sport applicant. SportAccord, the organization that wants to run the .Sport top level domain name, might have a bit of a problem. SportAccord was one of two applicants for the .Sport top level domain name. Famous Four Media also applied for the domain, and Donuts applied for…
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After 6 Figure Domain Acquisition, Luxe Raises $50 Million
April 7, 2016 @ 9:25 AMA little over a year ago, Aron Meystedt of Heritage Auctions sent me an email to announce a 6 figure post-auction sale. His company brokered Luxe.com for $172,500 after the company’s auction had concluded. Here’s what Aron told me in that March 2015 email: <a href="http://www.Luxe.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.Luxe.com</a> is now an on demand parking and valet service… who received $20MM in funding recently. They decided to shorten their domain from <a href="http://www.LuxeValet.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.LuxeValet.com</a> to just <a href="http://www.Luxe.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.Luxe.com</a> We reached out to Luxe and described the benefits of moving forward on Luxe.com – and for them, it was a no brainer. They bought it immediately…
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Rightside Stats: 102,721 of 474,408 (21.7%) Registered Domains are Developed
April 6, 2016 @ 8:40 AMRightside shared some interesting stats about their New gTLD domain name registrations and the overall percentage of developed domains. Rightside claims that 102,721 of their 474,408 (21.7%) registered domains are developed. That seems like a huge number that is not inline with what people are seeing. Of course they have a disclaimer that the their…
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Negari and .xyz File Brief in Verisign Appeal
April 6, 2016 @ 5:43 AMParties say they didn’t engage in false advertising and lower court ruling should stand. Daniel Negari and his company, XYZ, have filed their brief in response to Verisign’s appeal of XYZ’s lower court victory. Verisign sued Negari and XYZ for alleged false advertising. Verisign said XYZ inflated the success of the .xyz domain name and…
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Cruz Keeps Up Pressure On ICANN Brass
April 6, 2016 @ 4:53 AMUS presidential wannabe Sen. Ted Cruz has sent ICANN’s chair another nasty letter, demanding to know why he hasn’t yet responded to a laundry list of questions about former CEO Fadi Chehade’s relationship with the Chinese government. The letter, also signed by fellow Republican senators Mike Lee and James Lankford, expresses “dismay” over the lack…
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