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Sharp Wants Dot-brand WHOIS Requirement Relaxed
July 31, 2015 @ 2:47 AMElectronics firm Sharp wants to remove part of its new gTLD registry contract relating to Whois. The company has filed a Registry Services Evaluation Process request to get its requirement to offer “searchable Whois” dropped. RSEP is the mechanism registries use to amend their contracts. ICANN’s initial review has not found any security, stability or…
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Neustar Becomes "World's Largest Registry" With $87M ARI Registry Buy
July 31, 2015 @ 2:09 AMConsolidation in the domain name industry continued last night with Neustar’s $87 million acquisition of Bombora Technologies, the holding group for ARI Registry Services and AusRegistry. Bombora CEO Adrian Kinderis told DI that the deal makes Neustar the “biggest registry services back-end provider on the market”, as measured by the number of TLDs on its…
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Sedo Adds Automated Ownership Verification
July 30, 2015 @ 8:51 AMFeature lets you add domains for sale without delay. There’s a delay between the time you submit a domain name for sale on Sedo and when it shows up on the site. This delay is due to Sedo verifying that the person who submitted the domain name is actually the owner. Now Sedo has released…
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.trust Announces Advisory Board
July 30, 2015 @ 8:27 AMNCC Group has announced the line-up of its new .trust Advisory Board, “an elite panel of renowned security experts responsible for supporting NCC Group’s .trust Technical Policy, in a bid to create the world’s first secure community on the Internet”. Six renowned security experts currently sit on the board alongside Gunter Ollmann, CTO of the…
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Minds + Machines: Layoffs, Plan for Cash and More
July 30, 2015 @ 7:18 AMBig updates from one of the biggest new top level domain name companies. Publicly traded Minds + Machines (London AIM: MMX) released a corporate update today, and it’s big. The company has close to $50 million in cash in the bank, which gives it plenty of time to wait out the hoped-for surge in acceptance…
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Minds + Machines to Register Up to 30k New gTLD Premium Domains Under Emerald Names
July 30, 2015 @ 4:52 AMMinds + Machines announced they are going through the process of registering up to 30,000 Premium Names from across its wholly-owned portfolio of TLDs through its wholly-owned entity, Emerald Names, “so as to raise the visibility of its inventory amongst the broker and registrar channel, as well as with consumers”. “As a result, these Premium…
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New gTLD .tech Enters Early Access Period (EAP) Today With 40+ Pioneers
July 29, 2015 @ 10:02 AMRadix announced today that .Tech has entered the 1st day of the Early Access Program (EAP) Unlike other Radix new gTLD extensions that previously launched .Tech is not going to have a landrush period but an EAP period like Donuts and Rightside. Radix further announced that it has signed up 40+ Pioneers for .tech. “The…
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As Deadline Looms, Over 100 Dot-brands Still in Contract Limbo
July 29, 2015 @ 8:38 AMWith the minutes ticking down to the deadline for scores of dot-brands to sign registry agreements with ICANN, over 100 have not, according to ICANN’s web site. New gTLD applicants had until July 29 to sign their contracts or risk losing their deposits. I reported a week ago that roughly 170 would-be dot-brands had yet…
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Frank Schilling's North Sound Names Loses 1st Uniform Rapid Suspension On Eos.blackfriday
July 29, 2015 @ 4:15 AMFrank Schilling North Sound Names has lost its first Uniform Rapid Suspension (URS) on the domain name eos.blackfriday. North Sound Names registered almost 208,000 domain names Uniregistry new gTLD’s and marks the first time North Sound has lost a domain name in a URS or a UDRP. Due to the ruling the domain registration will…
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Idn .com Hits The Root
July 29, 2015 @ 3:46 AMEleven variants of .com and .net in non-Latin scripts joined the internet today. Verisign’s whole portfolio of internationalized domain name new gTLDs were added to the DNS root at some point in the last 24 hours, and the company is planning to start launching them before the end of the year. But the company has…
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