Domain Name News

Nominet wants feedback on 3 .UK issues

Nominet announced a new .UK Policy Consultation, inviting feedback from all interested stakeholders. The .UK policies provide the framework of principles for the .UK namespace. They are developed in consultation with a wide variety of …

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EFF: ICANN staff violated the Bylaws

The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) wrote a letter to the ICANN Board Accountability Mechanisms Committee to address certain errors in the ICANN Ombudsman’s September 7, 2019 “Substantive Evaluation” of EFF’s Request for Reconsideration. EFF claims …

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No respect for intangible things

Opinions

Many people have no respect for intangible things. Many people don’t understand how and why intangible things can cost (a lot of) money or simply pretend not to understand and play stupid to get a …

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Tucows rebrands

Tucows rebranded on Friday getting a new logo, new site and a new look. Tucows owns OpenSRS, Enom, EPAG, Hover and Ascio and is the second largest domain registrar in the world by volume and …

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Fashion.com going up for auction

It has been announced that the domain name fashion.com will be sold at auction this autumn. The announcement was made on the final day of Paris Fashion Week. “With the worldwide race in online fashion, I …

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Nominet increases .uk prices

Nominet announced that following the annual review of pricing, the wholesale cost for a .UK domain registration or renewal will change to £3.90 per year from 13 January 2020. Nominet claims that “the 15p per …

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Front-running ignorant spammer

Opinions

I got an email that quickly summarizes what is wrong with some newbies (and sometimes not newbies) in domaining. From: alexisq0yeuclark @ gmail.com Hello! I noticed you have copyrightfilters.com. Are you interested in rightfilters.com? If …

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