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Verisign to Keep Price Increase Power Under New .net Contract
April 21, 2017 @ 1:19 AMThe wholesale price of a .net domain is likely to top $15 by 2023, under a proposed renewal of its ICANN contract revealed today. ICANN-imposed price caps are staying in the new Registry Agreement, but Verisign retains the right to increase its fees by 10% in each of the six years of the deal’s lifespan…
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Gleissner Continues Fight With Apple, Still Applying for .com Marks
April 20, 2017 @ 9:10 AMAfter being ordered to pay Apple money, he files two Apple-related trademark applications in the U.S. I’ll say this about Michael Gleissner: he’s not afraid to pick fights with deep-pocketed companies. Just days after being ordered to pay Apple £38,085 for filing trademark revocation proceedings with an ulterior purpose, firms that list Gleissner as Director…
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ICANN Loosens WHOIS Privacy Rules for Registrars
April 20, 2017 @ 3:41 AMICANN has made it easier for registries and registrars to opt-out of Whois-related contractual provisions when they clash with local laws. From this week, accredited domain firms will not have to show that they are being investigated by local privacy or law enforcement authorities before they can request a waiver from ICANN. Instead, they’ll be…
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Pirate Bay Founder Launches Piracy-friendly Domain Privacy Service
April 19, 2017 @ 9:27 AMThe founder of controversial BitTorrent search engine The Pirate Bay has entered the domain name market with a new proxy service. It’s called Njalla, it’s based in a Caribbean tax haven, and it says it offers a higher level of privacy protection than you get anywhere else. The company described itself in its inaugural blog…
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MMX Scores $500,000 Domain Name Deal
April 19, 2017 @ 7:04 AMDetails are limited but deal will give MMX’s portfolio a nice bump. New top level domain name company MMX (Minds + Machines) has scored a $500,000 deal to register 90,000 second level domain names under its top level domain names within the next 12 months. Beyond that, details are scant. MMX CEO Toby Hall said…
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IANA Boss Quits ICANN
April 19, 2017 @ 6:48 AMThe head of IANA is to leave the organization, ICANN announced this week. Elise Gerich, currently vice president of IANA Services at ICANN and president of Public Technical Identifiers (PTI), will leave in October, according to a blog post. She’ll stick around long enough to oversee the DNS root’s first DNSSEC Key-Signing Key rollover, which…
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Mystery Buyer Pumps $500,000 Into MMX gTLDs
April 19, 2017 @ 6:19 AMMMX has inked a deal to sell 90,000 domain names to a mystery buyer. The company formerly known as Minds + Machines today disclosed to the markets that the deal is worth $500,000 in the first year, and that the names will be registered at some point over the coming 12 months. CEO Toby Hall…
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Instagram Goes After Instagram.tv Domain Name
April 19, 2017 @ 5:44 AMInstagram filed a UDRP at the World Intellectual Property Organization to get the Instagram.tv domain name. This isn’t all that surprising to me, but it is surprising that it took the company so long to go after the domain name. Instagram has filed quite a few UDRPs to take possession of typos and Instagram-related domain names…
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Court Determines Oversee.net Co-founder's Case Can Move Forward
April 18, 2017 @ 11:00 AMOpinion retains most of Frederick Hsu’s claims against Oversee.net investors, officers and board members. Last year, I wrote about a lawsuit that Oversee.net co-founder Frederick Hsu (through the Frederick Hsu Living Trust) filed against Oversee.net investor Oak Hill Capital Partners and many former board members and officers of the company. Hsu alleged six claims in…
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Boston Ivy (.broker, .forex, .markets, .trading) to Drop Premium Renewals
April 17, 2017 @ 11:33 AMCompany that operates four financial domains abandons premium renewal model. Boston Ivy, the top level domain name that operates .broker, .forex, .markets and .trading, will drop premium renewals on premium domain names registered starting May 1. The move comes after the company significantly cut its standard wholesale prices, and is similar to the move MMX…
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