Legal

Facebook is suing the popular registrar Namecheap alleging it is “Protecting People from Domain Name Fraud“. This week we filed a lawsuit in Arizona against Namecheap, a domain name registrar, as well as its proxy …

Ethos Capital senses that ICANN will deny their sweet .org acquisition deal and starts making promises left and right. Or they just made a deal with ICANN to makes these promises so that ICANN approves …

ICANN received a letter from California Attorney General (Xavier Becerra) on the 23rd of January regarding the .ORG change of control and then forwarded the letter to PIR. ICANN provided formal notice to PIR on …

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) announced that the Office of the Attorney General of the State of California (CA-AGO) has requested information from ICANN regarding the proposed transfer of Public Interest …

We all got it wrong people! Read this to understand how ISOC saved PIR and .org from starving to death!!! According to a Mike Godwin, ISOC and its board of trustees saved PIR and the …

NTEN is having a SaveDotOrg protest outside ICANN’s offices in Los Angeles on Friday, January 24, 2020. Here are all the details: Don’t let a private equity firm take over .ORG! Join us in demanding …

A UDRP complaint for the domain Lotto.com that was bought sometime in 2017 by its current owner for $2.68 million was denied at WIPO. The owner is Birrell Nigel, Cavour Ltd., Isle of Man, represented by …

ICA issued a statement after ICANN announced changes and price increases to the .COM registry agreement with Verisign: ICANN’s announcement that it “reached a proposed agreement” with Verisign to amend the .com registry agreement raises …

ICANN and Verisign announced today the proposed amendment to .COM registry agreement. Verisign and ICANN agreed to amend the .COM Registry Agreement to permit an increase to the price for .COM registry services, up to a …

Packet Clearing House sent a letter warning ICANN about the Operational Stability of the .ORG Domain. In short they claim that unless prices are increased significantly (more than 10% as claimed) the buyer of the …

Access Now published an infographic on Twitter about saving the .ORG extension. “It’s not too late to #SaveDotOrg. This infographic explains why civil society across the globe is fighting to stop the sale & keep …

ICANN pretends to care Göran Marby, ICANN President & CEO and Maarten Botterman, ICANN Board Chair issued an update about .org yesterday saying that: “According to the .ORG Registry Agreement and our processes for reviewing …

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) doesn’t care about the thousands of comments, tweets, articles, petitions and opinions. Submitting comments and signing petitions achieves nothing. Like nothing was achieved by the 3,200 …

A totally clueless company threatened Rick Schwartz with a Cease and Desist letter about one of Rick’s domain names: Prop.com. Here is what Rick said about this in a tweet: C&D Meets FU POS Wants …