ICANN sent three notices of termination of registrar accreditation agreement today 11th of February 2013. The three registrars are: Central Registrar, Inc. DBA Domainmonger.com’s (“Domainmonger.com”) (accredited since 4 October 2010) R. Lee Chambers Company LLC …
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Go Daddy Acquires M.dot Inc
Go Daddy acquired M.dot Inc. M.dot is a web platform for small businesses. It is the leading mobile app for small business website creation and management. The addition of M.dot to Go Daddy’s product offerings gives Go …
Read More »ICANN sends notice of breach to Israeli registrar Black Ice Domains
ICANN sent a notice of breach to Israeli registrar Black Ice Domains. As of 5 February 2013, Black Ice Domains, Inc. is in breach of its Registrar Accreditation Agreement (RAA) with the Internet Corporation for …
Read More »Go Daddy says that Super Bowl commercials were a success
Go Daddy says that the Super Bowl commercials were an unprecedented business success. That is not bad considering that “YourBigIdea.CO” is a copy of Verisign’s “What’s your .net idea?” campaign. GoDaddy.com’s two 30-second ads drove tremendous …
Read More »Moniker .ORG Renewals Are Failing
I have tried renewing the same .org domain name at Moniker.com 3 times today within a 6 hour period and all three attempts have failed. You will not get any indication about the failed order …
Read More »More than 240 registrants participate in the regional Registry Registrar meeting in Amsterdam
ICANN announced that there is a lot of interest in the regional Registry Registrar meeting, taking place in Amsterdam January 24th and 25th 2013. With over 240 registrants, this is by far the most attended regional …
Read More »Cheapies.com gets second notice of breach from ICANN in 1 week
Last week ICANN send notices of breach to 10 accredited registrars because they were in breach of their Registrar Accreditation Agreement (RAA) with the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). One of the …
Read More »Go Daddy starts offering .ca IDNs
Starting January 13 Go Daddy started supporting .ca Internationalized Domain Names with French characters. This means French-Canadian individuals and businesses can now register the English and French versions of their domain name. The .ca registration …
Read More »ICANN sends notices of breach to 10 registrars
As of 11 January 2013, 10 ICANN accredited registrar are in breach of their Registrar Accreditation Agreement (RAA) with the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). ICANN requests that these 10 registrars cure …
Read More »New Go Daddy Phishing Attack
Go Daddy made an announcement that there is a phishing attack underway that may affect some of it’s customers. I suggest as a general rule to not click on links inside of emails. Here is …
Read More »My solution for the Pool problem – Pool shutting down registrars effective January 10
Pool announced on the 20th of December that it is shutting down many of it’s registrars effective January 10, 2013. I had 12 affected domains that were registered in these registrars in the past few …
Read More »Demand Media Acquires Name.com
Demand Media today announced the acquisition of Denver-based domain name registrar Name.com. The acquisition is intended to expand Demand Media’s platform as it prepares for the historic release of new Top Level Domains (TLDs) this year. …
Read More »Pool shutting down registrars effective January 10 – Domains in limbo
Pool is shutting down many of it’s registrars effective January 10, 2013. These are registrars that have been used drop catching for the Pool backordering service. Pool has not been so successful in acquiring dropped …
Read More »Go Daddy coupon code scam – Beware!
I was renewing a few domains at Go Daddy and as the last code I had that gave me 32% off any order had expired I searched the internet to find a similar coupon code. …
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