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WHOIS Privacy Reforms Incoming
May 6, 2015 @ 8:18 AMWhois privacy services will become regulated by ICANN under proposals published today, but there’s a big disagreement about whether all companies should be allowed to use them. A working group has released the first draft of its recommendations covering privacy and proxy services, which mask the identity and contact details of domain registrants. The report…
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Carly Fiorina Jokes About Registering SethMeyers.org
May 6, 2015 @ 7:32 AMPresidential hopeful jokes with comedian about domain names. There’s been quite a bit of mainstream coverage this past week about presidential candidate Carly Fiorina and domain names. The press has said that she forgot to register CarlyFiorina.org. Some other person registered it and is using it to highlight layoffs under her tenure at HP. (As…
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Namecheap Launches Online Marketplace for Small Businesses
May 6, 2015 @ 7:23 AMNamecheap is launching a new marketplace today for small businesses according to Tech.co Rick Kirkendall, the CEO of Namecheap is quoted saying “The Marketplace is similar to the Apple app store, where external developers can submit apps for people to use to make building their websites easier, after they already have a domain,” says …
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Organizer of "Great Run" Events Engaged in Reverse Domain Name Hijacking
May 6, 2015 @ 7:12 AMPanel finds that group brought was attempting to reverse domain name hijack GreatRun.com. Nova International Limited, the company that organizes the Great Run series of events, has been found to have engaged in reverse domain name hijacking in a UDRP for GreatRun.com. The complainants use the domain name GreatRun.org, which it registered in 2002. Panelist…
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Alpnames.com Offering Free .Party New gTLD Domain Name Registrations
May 6, 2015 @ 5:32 AMAlpnames.com the registrar who offered free and then $.49 domain names for .Science which just broke the 250,000 domain registration mark, announced today that is was now offering free .Party domains. Famous Four Media is the registry for both .Science and .Party. As we discussed before Alpnames.com which is located in Gibraltar as is Famous…
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Campaigns and Cybersquatters Register Domains Up to Decades in Advance
May 5, 2015 @ 11:58 AMCNBC published an article an hour ago taking a look at the brisk action in candidate domain names. “They’re the modern-day real estate,” said Amichaim Abramson, an entrepreneur based in Brooklyn, New York, who bought a number of domains for future elections across the political spectrum. He said he hopes to help candidates he supports…
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.NGO/.ONG Launches Today for Non-profits; New gTLDs Done Right: Here is What You Need to Know
May 5, 2015 @ 9:34 AMThe Public Interest Registry (PIR) which operates the .Org domain name extension, is launching .NGO and .ONG today into general availability for Non-profit, non governmental organizations. The new gTLD domain name extension go live at 8pm EST tonight to be registered on a first come, first served basis. I had a chance to chat with…
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Verisign Wants Patent for "Searchable Web WHOIS"
May 5, 2015 @ 7:40 AMCompany files patent application for improved whois searching across multiple registries. Verisign has filed a patent with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office for a “searchable web whois”. The application was filed in 2012 and just published today. The patent application suggests that current whois search, especially across multiple registries, is hard. It claims that…
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Most ICANN New gTLD Breaches Were Over a Year Ago
May 4, 2015 @ 11:26 AMAlmost three quarters of the security breaches logged against ICANN’s new gTLD portal occurred over a three-month period in early 2014, DI can reveal. Almost every incident of a new gTLD applicant coming across data they weren’t supposed to see — 322 of the 330 total — happened before the end of October last year,…
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Company That Bought Brand.com for $500k Sells It for $300k & Files Bankruptcy
May 4, 2015 @ 9:18 AMAccording to technical.ly, after spending $500,000 for the domain name Brand.com, the company formerly known as Reputation Changer filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy last month. Technical.ly says according to the filing, Brand.com sold its domain for $300,000 . The domain name is currently in escrow.com at Igloo.com Technical.ly also reports that the company sold the domain name…
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