Recent Posts
- The IANA transition in a nutshell
- Google buys .app for over $25 million
- ICANN ditches plan to give governments more power
- Why you can’t register emojis in gTLDs
- Crocker caught with his pants down, literally, at ICANN 52
- Verisign sues .xyz and Negari for “false advertising”
- Chehade to face Congressional grilling this week
- Get NamesCon 2016 tickets at 80% off
- .xxx boss says new gTLD registries need to “wake up”
- Sex.co for sale at $200,000
- Renewals at 55% as first new gTLD junk drop begins
- Group forms to stop new gTLDs breaking stuff
- Generics versus brands as two more gTLDs are sold
- Delays to two-letter domains after governments take a second bite at the apple
- .blog won in eight-figure auction by Primer Nivel
- .reise to start at $400k in no-reserve auction
- Chehade declines to backtrack on domain “hogging” comments
- Anger as governments delay two-letter domains
- Overworked ICANN community “at breaking point”, Chehade warns
- In a first for new gTLDs, Aquitaine dumps geo bid
- With Cayman deal, Uniregistry now runs ccTLDs too
- 500 new gTLDs now live, a new one added every day
- Back in evaluation! Tata dot-brand bid falls foul of Morocco
- .cancerresearch — a role model for dot-brands?
- Schwartz sells porno.com for $8.9 million
- Toilet Paper Test not to blame as .tp faces deletion
- .net zone back above 15 million names
- Amazon staffing up for new gTLD launches
- .CLUB sells $200,000 domain for $10.99
- Dot Vegas sells $2m of premiums
- Two legit registrars held to account for lack of abuse tracking
- New ccTLDs may have to block name collisions
- Pop-ups boost most-popular new gTLD domains, and it’s not just .xyz any more
- Jeff Neuman quits Neustar for Valideus
- .gay is gay enough after all? ICANN overturns community panel decision
- Domain hijacking bug found in Go Daddy
- NCC buys Open Registry for up to $22.6m — a gTLD registry now owns part of the TMCH
- ICANN audit claims two more registrar scalps
- A quarter of registrar’s names are “illicit pharmacies”
- .top says Facebook shakedown was just a typo
- New gTLD extortion? Registry asks Facebook for $35,000 to register its brand
- New gTLD registries talk up marketing plans at NamesCon
- Seller’s remorse despite .club leading $1m NamesCon auction
- .xyz press release yanked for “encouraging cybersquatting”
- Here’s how the new number two new gTLD got so big so quick
- Vegas.club sells for $100,000
- The new massive number two new gTLD has me paralyzed with confusion
- .reise is first live new gTLD to hit the auction block
- Fatal timeout? A dozen dot-brands procrastinating to death
- Afilias cancels $100m London IPO
YouPorn owner arrested in tax evasion probe
YouPorn owner and regular ICM Registry antagonist Fabian Thylmann has reportedly been arrested in Belgium in connection with a German tax evasion investigation.
He was taken into custody at Brussels airport today under a warrant from the Cologne District Court, according to German daily Die Welt.
Thylmann is the owner — some say nominally so — of Manwin Licensing, the online porn empire behind brands such as YouPorn, Brazzers and, under license, Playboy.
Manwin sued ICANN and ICM late last year over the .xxx gTLD, saying it violates US antitrust laws, charges which are denied.
The company is also engaged in an ICANN Independent Review Panel procedure over the same issues.
ICM says that the lawsuit, and a related boycott, are merely attempts to disrupt its business. Thylmann, the company claims, offered to invest in ICM but was rebuffed.
According to Die Welt, Manwin’s German headquarters was raided last Tuesday as part of an ongoing tax evasion probe, which was spurred in part by the newspaper’s own investigation into the company.
Recent Comments
No doubt that Google has major plans for .app.... read more
Yes. If the sky was grey I would.... read more
@h4ck3r, At this point, if I said online that the sky is blue, you would reply that it's grey. I surrender. Leadi... read more
So their argument is that they are ultra successful and that .xyz is ultra un-successful and lying? Hardly the case o... read more
Those are the correct numbers. Think about it. XYZ says all the good .COMs are taken. Verisign wants to argue again... read more
What am I missing? The lawsuit says: “.COM added over 30 million domain names to the base in 2013″ You refute tha... read more
That's a myth. People are confusing the *.ws wildcard record that leads to the registrar landing page for unregistered d... read more
@h4ck3r "unless I'm missing something" ... It's good that you recognize that as a possibility. Since 2010, Verisig... read more
Most applications like browsers etc. use a transitional standard called UTS-46 which supports both IDNA2008 and IDNA2003... read more
squatted ? Is is a registered mark..... read more