An article co-authored by Zak Muscovitch, General Counsel of the Internet Commerce Association (ICA) and Nat Cohen busts some of the most common domain name secondary market myths. The Secondary Market, where already registered domain …
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Tucows CEO Elliot Noss talks about content moderation (video)
Last Friday, NamesCon Online hosted a fireside chat with Tucows CEO, Elliot Noss, titled “How do we make the Internet better from here?” The discussion at the closing session of NamesCon 2021 included some reminiscing …
Read More »Stefanos Tsitsipas wants to destroy whoever bought his domain name! (video)
Stefanos Tsitsipas, world number 6 in tennis and best Greek tennis player ever, wants to destroy whoever bought his domain name! Stefanos Tsitsipas is at Melbourne preparing for the ATP Cup starting today (representing team …
Read More »New campaign to rescue .UK and remove 5 Nominet board directors
Krystal, a web hosting company and registrar, has launched PublicBenefit.UK – a campaign to rescue Nominet, the guardian for 10.8M .UK domain names and one of the world’s top five registries. The campaign accuses Nominet’s …
Read More ».NL introduces landing pages for disabled domain names
From today, SIDN, the .NL registry, is linking an informative landing page to domain names whose name servers have been delinked. In its role as operator of the .nl domain, SIDN can delink the servers …
Read More »ICANN launches audit of 183 registrars
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) announced the launch of an audit program aimed at reviewing how registrars are fulfilling their contractual obligations related to addressing reports of potentially abusive domains. This …
Read More »GoDaddy statement regarding AR15.com
GoDaddy issued a statement regarding the removal of the website AR15.com from GoDaddy registrar and hosting. Why did GoDaddy suspend services to AR15.com? On January 8, we received a complaint regarding certain content on AR15.com. …
Read More »Sahil Gupta tries to steal Spase .com again and fails miserably!
Sahil Gupta, this world class idiot, tried to steal the domain name Spase .com again and failed miserably! This time it was even worse. He filed the same UDRP complaint for the same domain name …
Read More »Over 22,000 .UK domains were suspended in the past 12 months
Responsible for running and keeping the .UK internet infrastructure secure, Nominet has published its update on .UK domains suspended for criminal activity over the 12 months to October 2020. Nominet suspends domains following notification from the police or …
Read More »Sahil Gupta files the same complaint! (Also tweets to NASA about nasa(.)org!)
Someone many years ago said that “The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.”. Well, it is official! Sahil Gupta, our favorite reserve domain name hijacker …
Read More »WIPO reaches 50,000 UDRP cases since 1999 and has an 11% increase in 2020
The WIPO Arbitration and Mediation Center has registered its 50,000th “cybersquatting” case after almost 21 years. WIPO had its first UDRP case in December 1999. The Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP) is at …
Read More »Nominet and London police add new landing pages for suspended domains
Nominet today introduces law enforcement landing pages for domains suspended due to criminal activity to provide information for those who may have been affected by activity related to the domain name. In collaboration with the City of London’s …
Read More ».ORG was “saved”. Now get ready for some huge price increases!
Yes, we know .org was”saved by all the people that stood against the corrupted ICANN, Public Interest Registry (PIR), the Internet Society and (No)Ethos Capital. But was .org really saved? Abry Partners has many close …
Read More »Front-running by Steen Hof aka MarkMon
In the past few days I have been receiving more front-running emails for domain names currently in auction. It was a coincidence (or not so much) that I was already watching a couple of these …
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