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Registrars Boycotting "Gag Order" .sucks Contract
January 25, 2016 @ 2:15 AMRegistrars are ignoring new provisions in their .sucks contracts that they say amount to a “gag order”. In a letter (pdf) to ICANN from its Registrars Stakeholder Group, the registrars ask for ICANN to convene a face-to-face negotiation between themselves and .sucks registry Vox Populi, adding: Until such time, the Registrars believe that the amendments…
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.green is Raising $3.5 Million Through Crowdfunding
January 22, 2016 @ 12:29 PMDotGreen Community, Inc., the company behind the new .GREEN top level domain name, announced today in a press release we received, the launch of an Internet capital raising campaign to raise $3.5 million. The first offering, a Regulation D 506(C) Private Placement solely for accredited investors, provides an early-stage opportunity of common shares with voting…
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All Single Character .car Domains are Registered
January 22, 2016 @ 11:16 AMI did a quite whois check and found that all single letter .Car and single number .Car domain names are now registered. Probably not shocking to anyone but of the 40 single charter .Car domain names that have been registered, 27 were registered at Chinese registrars and 3 more appear to be owned by people…
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Centr Reports There are 311.5 Million Domains in The World
January 22, 2016 @ 10:23 AMAccording to a new report out today (PDF) by CENTR, which is the European country code TLD organisation, as of December 31, there are 311.5 million domain names in the world. 158.7 million domain names are Legacy TLD’s including .com, .net and .org; 140.1 million are ccTLD’s (country codes), 1.6 Million are IDN ccTLD’s, and…
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Chehade to Join World Economic Forum
January 22, 2016 @ 6:25 AMOutgoing ICANN CEO Fadi Chehade is to join the World Economic Forum as a senior advisor, WEF announced today. The person he will advise is Klaus Schwab, WEF’s founder and executive chairman, according to a press release. WEF is the Switzerland-based non-profit think tank famous for its annual summits in Davos, where world leaders and…
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Pirates Lose Privacy Rights Under New ICANN Rules
January 22, 2016 @ 5:48 AMPeople operating piracy web sites would have a harder time keeping their personal information private under new ICANN rules. ICANN’s GNSO Council last night approved a set of recommendations that lay down the rules of engagement for when trademark and copyright owners try to unmask Whois privacy users. Among other things, the new rules would…
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ICANN Confirms Domain Privacy is for All
January 22, 2016 @ 3:28 AMCommercial entities will not be excluded from buying domain privacy services, ICANN’s GNSO Council has confirmed. The Council last night voted unanimously to approve a set of recommendations that would make it compulsory for privacy and proxy services to be accredited by ICANN for the first time. The recommendations govern among other things how privacy…
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1st Day New gTLD Totals: .family; .feedback
January 21, 2016 @ 8:49 AMEarlier today we wrote about .Car, .Cars and .Auto which ended its first day of general availability with around 650 domain registrations. Two other new gTLD’s launched yesterday Rightside (NAME) .Family and Jay Westerdal’s .Feedback. .Family domain names ended the day with 3,745 domain name registrations. .Feedback currently has 438 domain registrations. A .Family registration…
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.car, .cars & .auto Hauls in Another Cool Million
January 21, 2016 @ 6:08 AMThe new gTLD’s .Car, .Cars and .Auto went into it’s first day of general availability (GA) yesterday a domain name could be registered on a first come, first severed basis. According to RegistrarStats.com here are the totals from the first day of GA .Auto 164 .Car 136 .Cars 129 So basically 430 domain registrations at…
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Cars gTLD Launch Clears $1 Million in EAP
January 20, 2016 @ 6:05 AMThere was a small turn-out for the premium launch of .cars, .car and .auto gTLDs, but the registry says it cleared over $1 million in revenue. The three gTLDs are run by Cars Registry, a venture between Uniregistry and XYZ.com. They all finished their pricey Early Access Periods yesterday and are due to enter general…
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