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Grogan Hopeful of Content Policing Clarity Within "A Few Weeks"
June 18, 2015 @ 2:06 AMICANN may be able to provide registrars, intellectual property interests and others with clarity about when domain names should be suspended as early as next month, according to compliance chief Allen Grogan. With ICANN 53 kicking off in Buenos Aires this weekend, Grogan said he intends to meet with a diverse set of constituents in…
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Barclays Probably Not Breaching Contract, Says ICANN Compliance Chief
June 16, 2015 @ 8:58 AMBarclays doesn’t seem to have violated its new gTLD registry agreements, despite admitting to criminal charges related to currency manipulation, according to ICANN’s top compliance executive. Allen Grogan, chief contract compliance officer, told DI today that a “literal” reading of the Registry Agreements for .barclays and .barclaycard would not see the bank in breach. “As…
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.so Leaves GMO for Local Provider, Hikes Prices
June 16, 2015 @ 7:07 AMThe Somalian government has switched registry provider for its .so ccTLD from GMO Registry to soNIC, apparently a local provider. The IANA records for .so were updated yesterday to indicate that Mogadishu-based soNIC is now the technical contact. According to the current GMO-managed registry web site, new registrations were halted June 9 and will reopen…
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Commercial Connect Fails Miserably in Community Priority Bid
June 16, 2015 @ 5:03 AMProving a community for “shop” proves very difficult. .Shop top level domain name applicant Commercial Connect has been denied (pdf) in its bid for Community Priority, scoring just five points out the necessary 14 required to prevail. Like GMO, which also applied for community status, Commercial Connect didn’t score any points for “community establishment” and…
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ICANN Ponders Rejecting All Closed Generics
June 16, 2015 @ 4:42 AMICANN is thinking about rejecting all the remaining “closed generic” new gTLD applications from the current round. According to minutes of a June 5 New gTLD Program Committee meeting published last night, ICANN is considering two options. First, it could “prohibit exclusive generic TLDs in this round of the New gTLD Program and consult with…
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.berlin Zone Drops Off a Cliff
June 16, 2015 @ 3:39 AMThe number of domains in the .berlin zone file appears to have stabilized after falling off a cliff late last week. The new gTLD, which was an early leader in the space, peaked at 151,295 names on June 10. It was down by 68,841 to 82,481 domains on June 12 and has been relatively flat,…
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Uniregistry Announces Sale of Pro.flowers for $50k to FTD
June 15, 2015 @ 9:59 AMOn today’s DomainSherpa.com show, Frank Schilling the CEO of Uniregistry announced that the registry sold the new gTLD domain name Pro.Flowers To FTD for $50,000. The domain name transferred from Uniregistry to FTD on April 10th. The domain appears to be on the Uniregistry reserved list as the domain was not “registered” by Uniregistry until…
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Domainfest is Coming to South Florida As Part of The Domain Conference
June 15, 2015 @ 4:30 AMThe organizers of THE Domain Conference announced today that DOMAINfest will be held on Sunday, September 27th as part of its conference, from Saturday, September 26 through Tuesday, September 29 Jothan Frakes, co-founder of NamesCon, will be bringing the renowned DOMAINfest networking and content, which will be a compliment to THE Domain Conference, with its Premier Sponsor .CLUB Registry Voluntary donations will be accepted…
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GoDaddy: Alleged Discriminatory Email Not Authentic
June 14, 2015 @ 5:35 PMGoDaddy says it didn’t send email calling job applicant an obese Christian. GoDaddy has formally denied allegations that it sent an email to a job applicant explaining that it wouldn’t hire him because he was an obese Christian. The denial included detailed steps the company took to determine the email wasn’t authentic. Keith Connolly applied…
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ICM Registry Claws Back 68 .porn Names It Accidentally Released
June 12, 2015 @ 8:42 AMICM Registry has recovered nine .porn and .adult domain names from their registrants after they were accidentally released into the market. Domains such as ads.porn, hosting.adult and buy.porn were among those snapped up by registrants, despite the fact that they were supposed to be registry-reserved. ICM CEO Stuart Lawley told DI that a list of…
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