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Who Gets to Decide Domain Names?
February 12, 2011 @ 3:50 PMThe Feb. 7 front-page article ” .controversy, anyone? ” spotlighted the potential changes to the Internet precipitated by the decision by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers to introduce more than 400 generic top-level domains. But the article failed to address deeper issues: How…
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Playboy: Don't Blame Us for Illness
February 12, 2011 @ 10:32 AMPlayboy rep says its staff didn’t get sick at party. The New York Post wrote an article today about the illness outbreak after last week’s DOMAINfest conference. It quotes both Ron Jackson and Elliot Silver. The story asks if the Playboy Mansion was the source of the illness. (It wouldn’t be "New York Post-worthy" without the …
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Blogspot Blocked in India?
February 12, 2011 @ 4:34 AMBlogs with the domain name blogspot.com have been reported as inaccessible by users of certain internet service providers (ISPs) in India. Though other blogs powered by Google’s Blogger service, but having their own domain names are accessible. The block seems to be currently limited to only a few ISPs, with many users on other ISPs still being able to access blogspot.com freely.
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.tel Pages Will Soon Look Like…
February 11, 2011 @ 9:15 AMContest for .tel facelift ends. Now for the winner… .Tel pages may soon get a facelift courtesy of a design competition. Telnic, which runs the .tel domain, ran a contest on 99Designs to get user submissions of a potential new template. It received 223 submissions as of Wednesday’s deadline. .Tel is a unique domain name created for …
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SanDiego.com Dispute Goes to Court
February 11, 2011 @ 7:07 AMFormer owner files breach of contract claim. [Update: I now have a copy of the complaint (pdf). It focuses on mostly alleged verbal contracts between Burgess and DeuPree for total damages of $185,00. It also alleges that when DeuPree negotiated to buy the site that he "and unknown collaborators planned for force Burgess from sandiego.com, …
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Nominet and Police Web Take-down Should Seek Judicial Oversight
February 11, 2011 @ 6:12 AMChanges to the website takedown rules should be considered very carefully and there needs to be a full judicial oversight, the Open Rights Group has said. The comments from the organisation come as Nominet, the .uk domain name registrar, opens a consultation following a request by the Serious Organised Crime Agency (SOCA) to be able to take down websites, which they believe to be used for criminal activities at a moment’s notice. However, in order to do this changes to the terms and conditions under which UK domain names operate are required.
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Dotgay Llc Selects Neustar Registry Services
February 11, 2011 @ 5:02 AMDotgay LLC announced today it has selected Neustar, Inc. (NYSE: NSR), a leading domain name registry services provider, to provide the backend technology required to support the .gay generic Top-Level Domain (gTLD). Dotgay LLC expects to submit its application to manage the .gay gTLD to the Internet Corporation of Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) later this year. Dotgay has endorsements from some of the largest gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender (GLBT) organizations in the world already in place (combined memberships of approximately two million).
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Keynote From .Nxt Meeting: Juan Calle “.Com is Really a Typo of .Co”
February 10, 2011 @ 2:54 PMAs the 1st .Nxt show in came to a close in San Francisco today, Juan Calle the CEO of the .Co registry took the stage and spoke on the future of domain names and the opportunity that new gTLD’s will bring.
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New Phishing Tactic Emerges at One of World’s Largest Payment Processors – Domain Name System Hijacking
February 10, 2011 @ 9:43 AMIID report reveals new tactic to steal critical personal information online like credit card numbers. Report also shows gaming and e-commerce phishing.
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Nominet Makes Formal Call for Soca Takedown Views
February 10, 2011 @ 7:48 AMUK internet registry Nominet has formally called for opinions on potential legal powers for fast takedowns of websites and domains, following proposals by the Serious Organised Crime Agency.
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