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Three-million-domain .au Deal Up for Grabs
May 30, 2017 @ 2:34 AMauDA has formally launched the process that will could see it replace .au back-end provider Neustar with an in-house registry by the end of June 2018. The Australian ccTLD operator has opened a “Request for Expressions of Interest” as the first stage of a procurement process for software and/or services to support its recently announced…
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Tucows to Drop Some of Uniregistry's Domain Names
May 29, 2017 @ 7:33 AMRegistrar will cease offering domains with biggest real price increases. Tucows, the second largest domain name registrar, will cease offering nine of Uniregistry’s top level domain names this September after their annual fees skyrocket. The company announced it will drop support for the domains with “exponential” price increases such as .juegos and .hosting. It will…
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Tucows Stops Support for 9 Uniregistry New gTLDs
May 26, 2017 @ 6:26 AMThis is another hit to the Uniregistry New gTLD extensions. Tucows/OpenSRS will stop offering 9 of the Uniregistry extensions on September 8th, 2017 because of price increases. Registrants will not be able to register or renew these 9 extensions after September 8. But they can renew them now for up to 10 years. OpenSRS is suggesting…
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Web.com in Takeover Talks - Report
May 26, 2017 @ 1:06 AMWeb.com is in talks to be acquired by private equity firms, according to a report. Reuters reported last night that the registrar said the talks were “early stage” and that there was no guarantee of a deal. Web.com is of course home to Network Solutions, Register.com and is involved in secondary market plays SnapNames and…
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After Price Hike, Now Tucows Drops Support for Uniregistry TLDs
May 26, 2017 @ 12:54 AMTucows is to drop OpenSRS support for nine Uniregistry gTLDs after the registry announced severe price increases. The registrar told OpenSRS resellers that it will no longer support .audio, .juegos, .diet, .hiphop, .flowers, .guitars, .hosting, .property and .blackfriday from September 8, the date the increases kick in. It’s the second major registrar, after GoDaddy, to…
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Country Names to Finally Be Released in New gTLDs
May 24, 2017 @ 10:48 AMIt looks like hundreds of domain names matching the names of countries are to finally get released from ICANN limbo. The ICANN board last week passed a resolution calling for the organization to clear a backlog of over 60 registry requests to start selling or using country and territory names in their gTLDs. Some of…
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Country Names to Finally Be Released in New gTLDs
May 24, 2017 @ 10:48 AMIt looks like hundreds of domain names matching the names of countries are to finally get released from ICANN limbo. The ICANN board last week passed a resolution calling for the organization to clear a backlog of over 60 registry requests to start selling or using country and territory names in their gTLDs. Some of…
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Comcast Provides a Lesson On Firing Off C&D Letters Over Domain Names
May 24, 2017 @ 6:00 AMCompanies should think hard before firing off cease & desist letters. Comcast is getting dragged through the mud for sending a cease & desist letter to the owner of a domain name that has “comcast” in it, and there’s a lesson for brand owners here. One of Comcast’s intellectual property protection vendors, LookingGlass, sent cease…
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UDRPsearch Owner Wins UDRP, Court Case Still Pending
May 24, 2017 @ 5:27 AMPanel rules against company that claimed FastTrak.com was cybersquatting against it. A World Intellectual Property Organization panelist has ruled in favor of Virtual Point in a UDRP over the domain name FastTrak.com. Virtual Point has common ownership with UDRPSearch.com, a search engine for UDRP cases. The panelist ruled that the domain name could not have…
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.asia is Opening Up in July
May 23, 2017 @ 10:21 AMDomains will be easier to register and open to people outside of Asia. Ten years after its initial release, the .Asia top level domain name will become easier to register for people outside of Asia this summer. Currently, registrants need to provide a regional contact or ID (essentially, a contact in Asia) before a .Asia…
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