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GoDaddy Announces .org Price Increase
July 20, 2016 @ 10:10 AMI received an email from my account manager at GoDaddy about a price increase on .org domain names. I don’t think I own more than a few .org domain names, but I wanted to pass information about this price increase along to readers who may own their own .org domain names. In short, the price of .org domain name is going up by $2 on August 1st. Domain names impacted by the price increase can be registered, renewed, or transferred in advance of the price increase in order to avoid paying more once the increase goes into effect…
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ICANN to Flip The Secret Key to The Internet
July 20, 2016 @ 6:58 AMICANN is about to embark on a year-long effort to warn the internet that it plans to replace the top-level cryptographic keys used in DNSSEC for the first time. CTO David Conrad told DI today that ICANN will rotate the so-called Key Signing Key that is used as the “trust anchor” for all DNSSEC queries…
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Donuts Joins Fight to Delay .web gTLD Auction With Emergency Appeal
July 20, 2016 @ 2:49 AMDonuts and Radix have filed an “emergency” appeal with ICANN in an attempt to get the forthcoming auction for the .web gTLD delayed. The companies, both of which have applied for .web, say they have evidence that one of their rival bidders recently changed ownership without telling ICANN, in breach of application rules. They filed…
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Cruz's ICANN Paranoia is Now Official Republican Policy
July 20, 2016 @ 12:41 AMUS Republicans have endorsed hitherto fringe views on the IANA transition as official party policy. Yesterday delegates at the Republican National Convention approved the party’s 2016 Platform of the party, which “declares the Party’s principles and policies”. Internet policy takes up just half a page of the 66-page document, but it’s half a page straight…
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Internet Grows to 326.4 Million Domain Names in the First Quarter of 2016
July 19, 2016 @ 10:11 PMVeriSign, Inc. (NASDAQ: VRSN) today announced that approximately 12 million domain names were added to the internet in the first quarter of 2016, bringing the total number of registered domain names to approximately 326.4 million worldwide across all top-level domains (TLDs) as of March 31, 2016, according to the latest Domain Name Industry Brief.
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New Domains and ccTLDs Also Benefiting From Pokemon Go Craze
July 19, 2016 @ 7:59 AMLots of Pokemon domains are being registered in domains other than .com. Last week Elliot Silver at DomainInvesting wrote about the surge in .com and .net registrations including the word “Pokemon”. At the time, nearly 4,000 .com and .net domains had been registered. As of this morning, that number has grown to over 7,000 for…
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Donuts and Radix Still Miffed Over .web Applicant
July 19, 2016 @ 6:47 AMCompanies file reconsideration request. Meanwhile, who just bought web.biz? Last week Radix and Schlund Technologies GmbH sent letters to ICANN asking them to postpone an upcoming auction for .Web, scheduled to take place July 27. They are concerned that applicant Nu Dot Co is now controlled by (or bidding on behalf of) another entity…
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Heidi Powell Files Cybersquatting Lawsuit Against Heidi Powell Over HeidiPowell.com
July 19, 2016 @ 6:34 AMPity the poor woman who had the gall to register who own name as a .com domain name. I’ve seen a lot of ridiculous cybersquatting complaints filed through UDRP or the courts, but this one might top them all. You might have heard for Heidi Powell if you’re into weight loss reality TV. She’s co-host…
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Rightside Made More Than $1 Million in Q2 Selling Premium Domains
July 18, 2016 @ 2:56 PMRightside announced some of the highlights of the first half of 2016 regarding premium domain name sales. They also announced “The Power of Two” campaign for September that will be the release of previously unavailable two-letter domain names. Here are some of the highlights: The second quarter of 2016 has been our largest to date in…
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Verisign Files Patent Apps for Using DNS for Internet of Things (Iot) Devices
July 15, 2016 @ 5:15 AMVerisign wants to patent a couple ways to use the DNS for the internet of things. Verisign, the domain name registry that operates the .com top level domain name, has filed two patent applications for applying DNS to internet-connected devices, i.e. internet of things (IoT). The two applications were filed in January 2015 and published…
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