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ICANN Descends into Farce as Bigwigs Try to Cling to Power
September 8, 2015 @ 11:25 PMThe process to bring greater accountability to domain-name overseer ICANN descended into farce last week when the organization’s board tried to skewer plans to force it to answer to the internet community while simultaneously claiming it supported the idea.
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iPaymentinc.com Found Guilt of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking On a Domain It Used to Own iPayments.com
September 8, 2015 @ 12:43 PMIn what is a great case for al domain name holders iPayment, Inc. of Westlake Village, California, represented by Waller Lansden Dortch & Davis, LLP, just got found guilty of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking (RDNH) on the domain name ipayments.com The company who brought the complaint used to own the domain name and let the…
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Symantec Issued Patent for Rating Domain Registrars
September 8, 2015 @ 9:33 AMDoes your registrars’ reputation matter? The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has granted patent number 9,130,962 (pdf) to Symantec for “Calculating Domain Registrar Reputation by Analysis of Hosted Domains”. Symantec, which sells the web security product line Norton, suggests that calculating a registrar reputation score helps determine how much scrutiny to give to websites connected…
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XYZ Fighting Red Tape to Serve Chinese Customers
September 8, 2015 @ 2:33 AMXYZ.com is trying to become one of the first non-Chinese gTLD registries to be able to sell unhindered into the Chinese market, in the face of Draconian government regulations. The company has filed a Registry Services Evaluation Process request with ICANN — the first of its kind — that would let it use a gateway…
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Frakes to Lead Moniker
September 6, 2015 @ 11:22 PMDomain industry veteran Jothan Frakes has been tapped to take over leadership of troubled US registrar Moniker. Frakes will take over from CEO Bonnie Wittenburg. The news emerged during the DomainFest Asia conference in Macau, at which Frakes is a speaker, overnight. Moniker will be his first CEO gig, but he’s a bit of a…
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Tuft & Needle Mattress Startup Buy Premium Domain Name Tn.com
September 6, 2015 @ 5:03 AMMattress startup Tuft & Needle has mad a major domain name upgrade and has purchased the ultra premium 2 letter TN.com as a clear domain name upgrade from TuftAndNeedle.com.
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.club Publishes August Domain Results, Over $1 Million Cumulative Sales
September 4, 2015 @ 9:07 AM.Club registry has released August 2015 domain name results and cumulative sales of registry reserved domain name sales have surpassed the $1 Million mark! Wine.club remains the highest domain sold to date, with was sold by Right Of The Dot during NamesCon 2014.
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Panel Rules That Rightside's .cam Application is Still in The Mix
September 4, 2015 @ 8:41 AMString confusion objection ruling is overturned. Verisign’s successful string confusion objection against Rightside’s .cam top level domain name has been overturned. ICANN was put in a sticky situation after Verisign’s string confusion objections against two .cam applicants failed, but it prevailed against Rightside’s .cam application. The group decided to have a panel review the Rightside…
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Reddit Peppers Go Daddy Boss With Sexism Questions
September 4, 2015 @ 7:40 AMGo Daddy can’t seem to shake off the legacy of its long-running, sexually suggestive TV advertising. In an “Ask Me Anything” session on Reddit yesterday, CEO Blake Irving seemed to face more questions about sexism, women in technology and equal opportunities hiring than any other topic. He made about 70 posts during the session, at…
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Architelos: Shadiest New gTLD is Only 10% Shady
September 4, 2015 @ 5:28 AMDisputing the recent Blue Coat report into “shady” new gTLDs, domain security firm Architelos says that the shadiest namespace is just under 10% shady. That’s a far cry from Blue Coat’s claim earlier this week that nine new gTLDs are 95% to 100% abusive. Architelos shared with DI a few data points from its NameSentry…
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