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Insurance Industry Introduces Its Own Domain Extension
August 3, 2016 @ 9:30 AMBOSTON, Aug. 3, 2016 /PRNewswire/ — This summer, the insurance industry launched a new domain for the exclusive use by insurance brokers. The new domain is called, appropriately enough, Dot-INSURANCE. Example addresses would include <a href="http://www.rental.INSURANCE" rel="nofollow">http://www.rental.INSURANCE</a> and <a href="http://www.homeowners.INSURANCE" rel="nofollow">http://www.homeowners.INSURANCE</a>. There are tens of…
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BRS Media's Dotfm Announces .fm Launched On CentralNic Top-level Domain Registry Platform
August 3, 2016 @ 8:41 AMThe .FM is now available on CentralNic’s state of the art, proprietary technical backend registry service August 03, 2016 06:08 AM Eastern Daylight Time SAN FRANCISCO-(BUSINESS WIRE)-BRS Media, a diverse and growing media e-commerce firm that assists traditional and interactive…
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IRP Panel Crucifies ICANN for Lack of Transparency
August 3, 2016 @ 2:59 AMICANN has lost another Independent Review Process decision, with the panel stating some potentially alarming opinions about how much power ICANN staff has over its board and “independent” third-party contractors. This time, the successful IRP complainant was Dot Registry LLC, the Kansas company that applied for the gTLDs .llc, .llp, and .inc as a “Community”…
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L'oreal Shows Cards On Former "Closed Generic" gTLDs
August 3, 2016 @ 12:40 AMWant to register a .beauty or .makeup domain name? L’Oreal will get to decide unilaterally whether “you’re worth it”. The cosmetics maker has released the registration policies for its first former “closed generic” gTLD, .makeup, and they’re among the most restrictive in the industry. Free speech appears to be the first victim of the policy…
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Radix Doubles Up On DNS
August 2, 2016 @ 10:24 AMCompany adds Dyn in addition to CentralNic. New top level domain name company Radix is adding redundancy to its DNS. The company has contracted with Dyn to be its second DNS services provider, running concurrently with Radix’s back-end registry services provider CentralNic (AIM:CNIC). A Radix representative told Domain Name Wire that it wasn’t having problems…
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Lawsuit Alleges Epe.com Domain Name Stolen
August 1, 2016 @ 8:28 AMPorsche service company alleges domain name was stolen from its Network Solutions account. European Performance Engineering, Inc. (EPE) has filed a lawsuit (pdf) alleging that a thief stole the domain name EPE.com from it. The company, which services Porsche vehicles, says that someone gained unauthorized access to its Network Solutions account sometime on or before…
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Verisign Releases Statement About .web
August 1, 2016 @ 7:10 AMVerisign plans to “quickly grow .web”. Verisign (NYSE:VRSN) released a statement this morning about .web. It said what we already know: Verisign backed Nu Dot Co’s bid for .web. Once Nu Do Co executes the contract, it will seek to transfer the contract to Verisign through the ICANN process. I’m curious how much Nu Dot…
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Verisign Confirms It Did Fund $135 Million .web Bid
August 1, 2016 @ 2:36 AMVerisign has just confirmed that it was behind the winning bid in last week’s .web gTLD auction. Nu Dot Co won the auction after 23 rounds over two days of bidding, but Verisign was thought to be the real beneficiary. The company has now released the following statement confirming the relationship: The Company entered into…
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Verisign Announces .net Price Increase
July 28, 2016 @ 12:19 PMVerisign has just announced that prices for .net domains are going up again this coming February. Announcing its second-quarter earnings, the company revealed plans to raise its registry fee from $7.46 to $8.20, effective February 1, 2017. That’s the maximum 10% price hike it’s allowed to claim under its .net Registry Agreement with ICANN. Raising…
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.web Could Already Be a Record-breaker As Auction Enters Day Two
July 28, 2016 @ 12:23 AMIt seems likely that .web has already smashed through the $41.5 million record sale price for a new gTLD at ICANN auction. The auction, which kicked off properly at 1300 UTC yesterday, seems to have ended its first day of bidding at around 2300 UTC last night without a winner. That suggests, based on the…
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