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- “No timeline” to retire Soviet Union from the DNS
- ICANN to kill off 60-day domain transfer lock
- Lancaster bags up its dot-brand
- Google readying its next batch of gTLD launches?
- NomCom confirms Americans rejected from ICANN board
- Nova announces $45 million of new gTLD applications
- Registry makes .ai an option for Koreans
- it.com now bigger than Guatemala
- ICANN turns to AI and crowdsourcing for new gTLD program
- Amazon lawyer DiBiase elected to ICANN board
- Is .io safe now? Identity Digital now running Mauritian ccTLD
- Tucows quits ICANN’s Whois disclosure pilot
- Toshiba goes all-in on its dot-brand
- Google scuppers Team Internet acquisition after profit warning
- .ai channel doubles under new management
- Trump inclined to back deal that threatens .io
- As .com shrinks, China adds another 1.2 million domains
- Second new gTLD contention set revealed
- UK intros global domain takedown law
- No more Americans as Holland wins ICANN board seat
- Registries have started shutting down Whois
- ICANN wins IRP because complainant literally doesn’t exist
- .com could return to growth this quarter
- Could Musk’s DOGE kill off D3’s .doge?
- $2 million Christmas bonus for ICANN
- Another VW car dot-brand crashes out
- Largest back-end switch EVER as GoDaddy loses deal
- Yeah, we got phished, ICANN admits after crypto hack
- ICANN hacked to promote crypto scam
- Super Bowl a bit of a dud for .com?
- More gloom predicted for .com
- These are the .gov domains Trump has deleted so far
- Did Trump just create the world’s next ccTLD?
- $3,000 to do a Whois lookup?
- PIR to join GlobalBlock, but its crown jewel won’t
- LA wildfire victims get domain deletes delay
- .free domains to finally arrive as Amazon reveals three gTLD launches
- Six more gTLDs shown the door, five may be auctioned
- Registrar terminated after ignoring Whois transition
- $10 million ICANN giveaway winners picked
- Whois officially died today
- Typo left MasterCard open to hackers for years
- Could ICANN approve an R-word gTLD?
- These are the TLD growers and shrinkers of 2024 (part two)
- GoDaddy ordered to stop lying about crappy security
- These are the TLD growers and shrinkers of 2024 (part one)
- Dead terrorist domains for sale, just without the hyphens
- ICANN eyes more price hikes as it predicts dismal year for industry
- Meet the six people battling to join ICANN’s board
- New gTLD use cases not much use
- Defensive dot-brands are renewing, making ICANN millions
- Identity Digital offers free domain trials through LinkedIn
- Antisemitic remarks cost registrar dearly
- ICANN lawyers want to keep their clients secret
- Facebook cybersquatter asks ICANN to overturn UDRP ruling
- .xxx founder Stuart Lawley has died
- The new gTLD Next Round is really happening as two ICANN programs go live
- Verisign has much to be thankful for as .com contract renewed
- Another 40,000 .ai domains registered
- RDRS usage hits new low
- A dot-brand that was actually used is shutting down
- .id joins the million-domain club
- GoDaddy’s .xxx contract renewed
- Twitter clone Bluesky has one feature domain people should like
- ICANN confirms two bans on new gTLD gaming
- eBay slogan domain no longer has a BIN price
- Will Donald Trump be .io’s white knight?
- As customers flee legacy gTLDs, .org tops 11 million names
- Company accidentally puts porn domain on kids’ toys
- eBay’s new slogan looks like a $75,000 domain it doesn’t own
- Americans are deserting .com
- Weak Q3 for the domain universe, Verisign reports
- ICANN says it WILL raise its domain taxes soon
- Senator says domain industry “enables” Russian disinfo attacks
- bit.ليبيا? Libya to get its Arabic ccTLD
- Verisign gets eight more years running the root
- Two-horse race for open ICANN board seat
- Chinese say internet not ready for single-letter gTLDs
- Unloved INTA slams ICANN over new gTLDs
- Namecheap scores win in .org price-cap lawsuit
- Some Guy wants to take over .com and .net
- Second-shot gTLD bid rules revealed
- Nominet names directors after tight election
- Lawyer ban coming to ICANN
- Identity Digital to take over .ai
- ICA teams up with WIPO on UDRP reform
- Response to sex harassment lawsuit “inadequate”, say ICANN vets
- Unstoppable tops four million names
- Amazon readying fashion and book gTLDs
- Five times ICANN deleted a ccTLD, and what it means for .io
- Future of .io domains uncertain as UK hands over Chagos islands
- .ai now has over half a million names
- UK and Israel cut ICANN funding
- Twitter now up-to-date on linkification
- Moment of truth as .music domains finally go on sale
- ICANN fixes embarrassing “What is a Domain Name?” mistake
- Another ccTLD opens up its second level
- Reporter gains first access to .io island for decades
- .io sells $40 million of domains after massive uptick
- After five years, “useless” TLD has two web sites
- Verisign agrees to .com takedown rules
- New .com contract could see ALL domain prices go up
- Investing in .ad domains may be risky
- Plurals ban policy handed to ICANN board
- Three .now domains sell at premium EAP prices
- ICANN confirms new gTLD application fee
- New gTLD application fee rises by thousands after collision call
- Former .co registry defeated in $350 million contract fix case
- Is this the first Next Round new gTLD contention battle?
- ICANN names its Supreme Court judges
- Who uses Sunrise nowadays? You might be surprised
- ICANN gunning for Tencent over abuse claims
- All the one-character .sk domains to be auctioned
- Straggler gTLD signs first ICANN contract for years
- GoDaddy likely to win relaxed .xxx deal
- Tonkin promoted to CEO at auDA
- ICANN hires new Ombuds from WIPO
- Big twist as ICANN bans new gTLD auctions
- ICANN to “strengthen” harassment rules as it picks another homophobic meeting host
- .my global relaunch starts slowly despite cheapo prices
- Hackers break .mobi after Whois domain expires
- The new gTLD next, next and next round
- Squarespace gets sweetened $7.2 billion takeover offer
- ICANN hit by DDoS attack
- Russia calls for ICANN to split from US
Bigotgate woman gets cybersquatted
Gillian Duffy, an unknown Rochdale pensioner five hours ago, has become the latest victim of celebrity cybersquatting.
Duffy is the voter Gordon Brown described as “bigoted” after she buttonholed him during an election walkabout this morning.
Brown thought he was having a private conversation as his car sped away, unaware that his radio mic was still on. Oops.
As a result, he’s been forced to apologize publicly at least four times in the last four hours, by my count.
The news in the UK has talked about nothing else this afternoon, so it’s hardly surprising that the domain name gillianduffy.co.uk has just been registered.
It’s currently parked with 1&1.
I’ll be fascinated to see what the registrant plans to do with the domain once Mrs Duffy’s 15 minutes are up.
Apple secures iPad trademark
Apple has bought the “iPad” trademark, as it relates to handheld computers, from Fujitsu.
The deal removes any doubt, if there ever was any, that anybody registering domain names containing the string had better unload them quickly or get lawyered up.
According to PatentAuthority.com, the US trademark on iPad was transferred to Apple on March 17. Details of the deal were not disclosed.
Fujitsu filed for the trademark several years ago to cover its line of handheld retail devices.
You may recall that a music producer made headlines last week for attempting to sell the domain ipaddownloads.com and others for $1 million on eBay.
FourSquare.com expires, reporter seeks padding
Visitors to one of the web’s hottest geo apps had a bit of a surprise today when instead of FourSquare.com’s normal site they found a Go Daddy parking page.
It’s the usual problem — the company forgot to renew its registration.
That’s pretty much all there is to say about the story, unless you’re London daily newspaper Metro, which decided to pad the piece with a big chunk of lorem ispum:
It’s free for a reason.
Burberry files UDRP on Engrish squatter
Burberry, the once-respectable fashion house more commonly associated nowadays with British chavs, has filed a UDRP complaint against a webmaster with an hilarious grasp of English.
Two claims were made against burberryscarfshop.com and burberryscarfstore.com. One site appears to be aimed at Brits, the other Americans, although you’d never know it from the language.
The American site claims: “To provide the superior scarves and service is our common logos and incessant pursue.”
From the British site:
Burberryscarfshop.com of the opinion that no people should go without beautiful scarf.
It is very important and exciting for every people to choose the perfect scarf in the preparation of his happy day!
I wonder which way this decision is going to go…
Gossip: Blackouts, Dallas and Kanye
Eight moderately amusing links from the last 24 hours.
- Apparently, ICANN didn’t trust Nairobi’s electrical grid or its hosts’ generators, so took backup power from the US embassy. All was well until a blackout took out the embassy… but not the Kenyatta.
- Squatters prefer “www” typos shocker.
- One-year registrations give you (continue reading)
Gossip: Geldof, China and Site Finder
Eight Sunday morning tidbits.
- Bob Geldof was on the BBC’s Andrew Marr Show this morning, via satellite from Nairobi. It seems likely he’s there in relation to to IGAD conference on east-African drought, which is being held at the same venue as the ICANN meeting, which kicked off today. Let’s hope he’s (continue reading)
Gossip: No booth babes for domainers
Eight interesting things collected from interesting web sites:
- No booth babes? No magicians? No speakers? No Powerpoint malfunctions? What the hell kind of tech conference is DOMAINFest Europe? At least the beer will be cheap.
- Speaking of Prague, you can add UDRP to (continue reading)
Gossip: DNS incest T-shirts, etc…
Eight domain name stories I would loved to have looked into in more detail today:
- Cricket Liu of Infoblox: DNSCurve is a distraction. David Ulevitch of OpenDNS: DNSSEC community is “embarrassing” and “incestuous”. Liu demands T-shirt reflecting same.
- Bored? Want to make enemies and influence people? Why not apply to join the ICANN board? Attractive package includes three all-expenses (continue reading)
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