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ICA Worried ICANN Will Force URS On .net
January 5, 2017 @ 5:56 AMThe Internet Commerce Association has called for a “moratorium” on the Uniform Rapid Suspension policy being added to legacy gTLD contracts, months before Verisign’s .net contract is up for renewal. In a blog post, ICA counsel Phil Corwin accused ICANN staff of making policy by the back door by compelling pre-2012 registries to adopt URS,…
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ICANN's Top DC Lobbyist Gets Consumer Safeguards Role
January 5, 2017 @ 4:22 AMICANN has named veteran staffer Jamie Hedlund as its new senior VP for contractual compliance and consumer safeguards. It’s a new executive team role, created by the departure of chief contract compliance officer Allen Grogan. Grogan announced his intention to leave ICANN last May, and has been working there part-time since August. The “consumer safeguards”…
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ICANN Terminates Penis Pill Pimp Registrar
January 5, 2017 @ 3:39 AMICANN is to terminate the contract of a Chinese registrar linked to dodgy pharmaceuticals web sites and other malfeasance. Nanjing Imperiosus Technology Co, which does business as DomainersChoice.com, has been told it will lose its registrar accreditation February 3. ICANN said in the termination notice that the company had failed to keep records related to…
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Comscore Gets Reverse Domain Name Hijacking Win
January 4, 2017 @ 8:39 AMCanadian firm tries to take away comScore’s Marketscore.com domain, but fails miserably. It’s not often that you find a large company like analytics service comScore on the receiving end of a UDRP. But the company was recently forced to defend its domain name MarketScore.com, which it used for a service between 2001-2007. The complainant, MarketScore…
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GMO and Radix Secure Chinese gTLD Approval
January 3, 2017 @ 2:16 AMGMO Registry and Radix have won Chinese government approval for their respective new gTLDs .shop and .site. It’s the second batch of foreign new gTLDs to get the nod from China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, following .vip, .club and .xyz in early December. They’re also the first two Asian registries from outside China…
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Security Experts Say ICANN Should Address Collisions Before Approving More New TLDs
January 2, 2017 @ 7:09 AMICANN’s Security and Stability Advisory Committee has told ICANN it needs to do more to address the problem of name collisions before it approves any more new gTLDs. In its latest advisory (pdf), published just before Christmas, SSAC says ICANN is not doing enough to coordinate with other technical bodies that are asserting authority over…
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.africa Could Go Live After Court Refuses Injunction
January 2, 2017 @ 3:58 AMDotConnectAfrica’s attempt to have ICANN legally blocked from delegating the .africa gTLD to rival applicant ZACR has been denied. The ruling by a Los Angeles court, following a December 22 hearing, means ICANN could put .africa in the root, under ZACR’s control, even before the case comes to trial. A court document (pdf) states: The…
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Finance Ministry Lowers .vn Domain Prices
December 29, 2016 @ 11:27 PMMOF, in Circular 208/2016, stipulates many changes in the fees for registering and using the ‘.vn’ domain name, to be applied early next year.
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.shop and .site Get Chinese Approval
December 29, 2016 @ 1:32 PMGMO and Radix get good news from China. Just a few weeks after approving .club, .VIP and .XYZ, China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) has approved two more domain names for sale and hosting within China. GMO Registry’s .Shop and Radix’s .Site were both approved today. The domain names that were approved earlier…
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Donuts Extends Dpml Plus and Delays Price Hike
December 28, 2016 @ 3:02 AMDonuts has delayed the price increases coming to its trademark-blocking service and extended availability of the “plus” version for three more months. Domain Protected Marks List Plus, which lets companies block brands and variations such as typos and brand+keywords across Donuts stable of 200ish TLDs, will now be available until March 31. The price hike…
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