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ICANN Reveals 12 More Data Breaches
November 20, 2015 @ 5:14 AMTwelve more new gTLD applicants have been found to have exploited a glitch in ICANN’s new gTLD portal to view fellow applicants’ data. ICANN said last night that it has determined that all 12 access incidents were “inadvertent” and did not disclose personally identifiable information. The revelation follows an investigation that started in April this…
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ICANN Reveals $1M of Not-lobbying Lobbying Expenses
November 20, 2015 @ 2:45 AMICANN has revealed how much it has spent so far on a few controversial professional services firms that have been accused of “lobbying” the US government on behalf of the organization. It said today that between July 2015 and September 2015 it spent $1,070,438 on six companies providing “Education/Engagement” services related to the transition of…
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Want to Write for Domain Name Wire?
November 19, 2015 @ 1:48 PMHave interesting data to share? Domain Name Wire is seeking qualified writers for data-driven and/or recurring, column-style posts. These stories could be an analysis of particular top level domain name usage, trends in the aftermarket, domain name sales data, interviews, or registration trends. I’m open to suggestions on other topics. Writers would be required to…
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RDNH Should Have Been Considered in Bankwell.com Decision
November 19, 2015 @ 7:19 AMPanelist gets decision correct but doesn’t consider reverse domain name hijacking. A World Intellectual Property Organization panelist has denied New Canaan, Connecticut-based Bankwell Financial Group in its cybersquatting complaint against Bankwell.com. However, panelist Peter Dernbach did not consider if Bankwell engaged in reverse domain name hijacking by bringing the case. He probably should have. The…
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English Beats Portuguese in $2.2m .hotels Auction
November 19, 2015 @ 6:32 AMBooking.com has won the right to operate .hotels after an auction concluded a protracted fight over the gTLD. In an ICANN-run auction yesterday, Booking.com prevailed with a winning bid of $2.2 million. Its sole competitors was Travel Reservations (formerly Despegar Online), which had applied for the Portuguese word .hoteis. In 2012, a String Similarity Review…
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As .com Registrations Surge, is Verisign a Good Buy?
November 18, 2015 @ 12:27 PMDomain name registrations are outpacing Verisign’s guidance. There was a rather spirited conversation over at DomainSherpa today about the landrush on short domain names. Is it a bubble? Maybe so. But guests Frank Schilling, Andrew Rosener and Shane Cultra discussed one way you can play in this boom without ever buying a numeric or four…
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Google Cross Promoting Domain Names to Existing Customers
November 18, 2015 @ 8:35 AMCompany sends $10 discount to some Google Analytics customers. One of the reasons domain name registrars are keeping a close eye on competition from Google Domains is the search giant’s massive user base of small business customers. It already has customers plugged into its email, apps and analytics services. It’s easy to cross-sell a domain…
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DosGringos.com Gets Sun.flowers From Uniregistry Under Founders Program
November 18, 2015 @ 5:53 AMUniregistry, the company behind the new gTLD .Flowers announced today that “Dos Gringos (DosGringos.com), the expert grower and supplier of sunflowers to retailers across the United States, today announced a strategic alliance with Uniregistry who acquired the domain name Sun.Flowers through the Uniregistry Pioneers Program. Sun.Flowers (www.sun.flowers), a knowledge specialist in all things sunflowers, offers…
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NAF Panelist Flubs Another UDRP Decision: Guess-IT.net
November 17, 2015 @ 10:31 AMPanelist doesn’t address domain name owner’s evidence. Earlier this year I was dumbfounded by the actions of panelist Bruce Meyerson in a UDRP case at National Arbitration Forum. He literally asked the complainant to change its argument so he could find in its favor. Meyerson just decided another UDRP case at NAF that calls his…
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How One Registrar Allegedly Dodges ICANN Compliance
November 17, 2015 @ 7:29 AMA Chinese registrar has been accused by ICANN of playing games to avoid complying with Whois policy. In a breach notice from ICANN Compliance last week, Beijing-based 35 Technology is told that it has failed to verify Whois records as required by its accreditation agreement. The domain in question was shoesbbalweb.com, which DomainTools’ archived screenshots…
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