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Deutsch and Doria to Join ICANN Board
September 4, 2017 @ 3:30 AMVeteran ICANN community members Avri Doria and Sarah Deutsch are to join ICANN’s board of directors in November. Both have been selected by ICANN’s Nominating Committee to serve three-year terms starting at the end of the public meeting in Abu Dhabi, which wraps up November 3. They replace current chair Steve Crocker, who is leaving…
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Instagram Registers DoxAGram Domain Names in Wake of Data Breach
September 2, 2017 @ 5:46 AMCompany’s domain registrations are probably futile. This week news broke that hackers stole account information on perhaps six million Instagram users and are selling the data. A group of hackers being called DoxAGram is responsible for the breach. In the wake of the breach and disclosure, Instagram is registering lots of domain names with DoxAGram…
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Namecheap Sues eNom and Tucows, Demands Transfer of 4 Million Domains
September 1, 2017 @ 2:09 PMNamecheap says Tucows is dragging its feet on transferring domains registered through Namecheap when it was an Enom reseller. Domain name registrar Namecheap is big, but until this year it didn’t show up on charts that rank registrars by domains. That’s because Namecheap acted as an Enom reseller, so it added to Enom’s numbers rather…
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Namecheap Sues eNom and Tucows, Demands Transfer of 4 Million Domains
September 1, 2017 @ 2:09 PMNamecheap says Tucows is dragging its feet on transferring domains registered through Namecheap when it was an Enom reseller. Domain name registrar Namecheap is big, but until this year it didn’t show up on charts that rank registrars by domains. That’s because Namecheap acted as an Enom reseller, so it added to Enom’s numbers rather…
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Afnic Appoints Pierre Bonis New CEO
September 1, 2017 @ 7:07 AMFrench ccTLD registry Afnic has named Pierre Bonis its new CEO. Bonis officially started his new job today, but he’s been in the role on an interim basis since May 1, when he replaced Mathieu Weill. Weill had abruptly quit after 12 years at Afnic in order to join the Digital Economy Department of the…
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After Slow Launch, .africa Looks to Add Hundreds of Resellers
September 1, 2017 @ 2:34 AMZA Central Registry is opening up .africa and its South African city gTLDs to potentially hundreds of new registrars via a new proxy program. The company today announced that its new registrar AF Proxy Services has received ICANN accreditation, which should open up .africa, .joburg, .capetown and .durban to its existing .za channel. ZACR is…
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Namesilo Reaches 1 Million Domain Names Under Management
August 31, 2017 @ 12:52 PMNameSilo, a U.S.-based domain registrar, announced that it has surpassed 1 million active domains registered by its customers following 7 consecutive years of growth. This puts NameSilo in the top 1% (top 30 registrars) of the nearly 3,000 ICANN accredited registrars in the world with a domain increase of over 35% in just the last…
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Green Bay Packers File UDRP Against Titletown.com
August 31, 2017 @ 10:52 AMGreen Bay, Wisconsin is known as “Titletown” or “Titletown USA” because of the Green Bay Packers. Now it appears that the National Football League team wants the TitleTown.com domain name. The NFL team filed a UDRP at the World Intellectual Property Organization, and it is WIPO Case D2017-1685. TitleTown.com is a domain name registered to a company called Headquarters.com, Inc…
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.vip, .club, .shop and .ltd Domain Name Extensions Get Beijing Approval
August 31, 2017 @ 7:56 AM.vip, .club, .shop and .ltd are the first 4 domain name extensions to receive approval by the Beijing Communications Administration. .VIP is an MMX extenstion, .Shop is managed by GMO Registry, Inc. and .ltd is owned by Donuts. In December 2016, .vip, .club and .xyz were the first three foreign registries to receive central government…
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Efty Adds 22 New Marketplace Categories and Matching For-sale Landing Pages
August 31, 2017 @ 4:23 AMEfty added today an additional 22 categories, bringing the total number of categories and matching For-Sale landing pages to 46. When Efty launched it had a list of categories users could assign to their domains and to list them under on their marketplace sites. The list was based on a wide range of categories Efty sourced from…
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