Legal

A record 5,128 cases were filed in 2021 under the Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP) with WIPO’s Arbitration and Mediation Center, eclipsing the 2020 level by 22%. The surge pushed WIPO cybersquatting cases …

Deputy Prime-Minister of Ukraine, Mykhailo FEDOROV, sent a letter to Goran Marby, ICANN President and Chief Executive Officer, asking for sanctions targeting the Russian Federation. Here is the letter from Mykhailo FEDOROV to ICANN: “I …

Nominet, the .UK registry, has released its summary of domain name disputes brought before its Dispute Resolution Service (DRS) during 2021.   The number of Complaints was at a record low since the DRS began in 2001, …

Nominet, the .UK registry, has today published its update on .UK domains suspended for criminal activity over the 12 months to 31 October 2021. Nominet suspends domains following notification from the police or other law enforcement agencies that the domain …

GoDaddy’s Managed WordPress hosting was hacked and up to 1.2 million customers were exposed. Email addresses, customer numbers, usernames, passwords and SSL private keys were all exposed. And somehow GoDaddy either found out about this …

In response to ICANN’s request for comments from stakeholders, the ICA filed its Comment, on the Initial Report on Specific Curative Rights Protections for IGOs. This is an important issue that the ICA has been …

The Internet Commerce Association announced that, commencing August 23, 2021, the ICA will be offering a free weekly UDRP Case Summary Digest by email. UDRP cases of note will be summarized weekly and sent out …

The Internet Commerce Association (ICA) wrote a post explaining the various 60-day domain name transfer locks. “Where locks are imposed as a security mechanism it is important for registrars and registrants alike to be aware …

The European Commission has opened an investigation into possible anticompetitive conduct by Google in the online advertising technology sector. It will examine whether Google is restricting access by third parties to user data for advertising …

Who is more dick? Dicker of course. The guy that doesn’t pay the money he owes for years, then says he will pay (after first saying he will not!) and then fails to pay again. …

Sahil Gupta, world class idiot, tried to steal the domain name Spase .com for the 3rd time and again failed miserably even though the owner did not respond to the UDRP. He first filed for …

Peter Sunde, co-creator of Njalla, created a Twitter thread explaining how the domain dark.fail (@DarkDotFail) got hijacked from Tucows and then moved to Namecheap. Njalla revealed yesterday that Tucows was the victim of a phishing …

Njalla revealed today that Tucows was the victim of a phishing attack that affected some domains registered with Njalla and other resellers and registrants. Tucows received a (fake) court order (including a gag order) to …

Namecheap After years of being #1 in this Top 20, Namecheap (US) continues to be the preferred domain registrar for miscreants registering botnet C&C domains. Spamhaus believes that given the long history of abuse at …