Domain News
- ICANN: New gTLD Contracting Webinar
Sat, 18 May 2013 13:00:58 +0000
Join ICANN staff for a New gTLD Contracting Webinar. This webinar session is intended to focus on the Contracting process and identify what information must be provided by the applicant prior to executing a Registry Agreement. Webinar Details Date: 13 June 2013 Time: 21:00 – 22:30 UTC (2:00pm – 3:30pm PDT) Adobe Connect: http://icann.adobeconnect.com/newgtldwebinar/ Dial [...] - Africa DNS Forum to be held in South Africa in July
Fri, 17 May 2013 01:42:44 +0000
Forum will bring together registries, registrars, experts and policy makers to foster cross-border collaboration [news release] The Africa Domain Name System (DNS) Forum will be held on 12 – 13 July 2013 in Durban, South Africa. The event aims to establish a platform for the DNS community across Africa and to advance the domain name [...] - Swedish Prosecutors Ask Court For Right To Seize Pirate Bay Domains
Thu, 16 May 2013 10:36:49 +0000
Swedish prosecutors are attempting to close down The Pirate Bay through having the domain names piratebay.se and thepiratebay.se deregistered. The new attempt to close down the popular file-sharing site is the latest attempt by the global entertainment industry to block its activities. However possibly pre-empting the new attempt to close them down, The Pirate Bay [...] - Six-Figure Domain Sale Tops Chart For Second Week In A Row
Wed, 15 May 2013 10:14:06 +0000
Connectnow.com sold for $120,000 through Sedo, topping the Domain Name Journal list of top reported sales for the week ending 7 April. But it dwarfed the competition, with the second placegetter being dublinhotels.com, which sold for £25,000 ($38,250) also through Sedo, being one of four domains selling for between $30,000 and $40,000. Overall Sedo had [...] - .LU Introduces Domain Freezing For Disputed Domains; Releases Blocked Domains
Wed, 15 May 2013 10:02:51 +0000
The registry for .lu domain names, DNS-LU (Restena), is introducing a couple of changes as of 11 June. The first change is that when there is a credible case in a domain name dispute. The second sees the release of a number of domain names previously blocked, most of which have are sex-related. For domain [...] - ICANN Response to ICA: URS Providers will become Contracted Parties by Philip Corwin, Internet Commerce Association
Wed, 15 May 2013 00:31:20 +0000
Responding to questions posed by ICA Counsel Philip Corwin at the Public Forum in Beijing, ICANN is now on the record that it is developing a standard contract for all providers of the new Uniform Rapid Suspension (URS) rights protection mechanism (RPM) for new gTLDs, and that more URS providers will be selected. This action [...] - Leading Domain Registrars Hacked
Tue, 14 May 2013 10:35:37 +0000
Leading domain name registrars Name.com, Melbourne IT, Moniker and Xinnet have admitted they were hacked in a brazen cyberattack last week, with the four companies believed to be responsible for around six million domain name registrations. Name.com have given the most comprehensive coverage of what happened on their blog, saying that their security team alerted [...] - Afnic welcomes the green light for the .bzh and .paris New gTLDs
Tue, 14 May 2013 09:42:26 +0000
[news release] The two applications, the first in the opening of New Top-Level Domains (New gTLDs), obtained ICANN’s approval on Friday May 10. ICANN has assessed more than 1,900 applications for New gTLDs over the last year. On Friday May 10, the applications for the .bzh and .paris projects were accepted. The approval represents a [...] - Two Six Figure Sales Wake Up Weekly Sales Chart
Mon, 13 May 2013 10:41:12 +0000
Following a week when the top selling domain couldn’t top $30,000, there were two six-figure domain sales in the week ending 3 April according to the Domain Name Journal list of top reported sales. The number domain on the chart was elend.com, which sold for $140,000 through Sedo, while adib.com came in second, selling for [...] - GAC Faces Scathing Complaints Over New gTLD Advice
Mon, 13 May 2013 10:24:48 +0000
ICANN’s Governmental Advisory Committee is facing scathing complaints from several applicants including Minds + Machines and United TLD about the Safeguards Applicable To All New gTLDs that were released as part of their Communiqué issued during the ICANN meeting in Beijing in April. Minds + Machines in their submission to ICANN said they are: deeply [...] - ICANN: FY14 Draft Operating Plan and Budget
Sat, 11 May 2013 08:54:07 +0000
Purpose (Brief): ICANN is now opening a public comment forum for the FY14 Draft Operating Plan and Budget. FY14 Draft Operating Plan and Budget PPT [779 KB] PDF [1.81 MB] FY14 Draft Operating Plan and Budget (AtTask) XLS [95 KB] PDF [338 KB] Community members are kindly asked to provide feedback on the various aspects [...] - ICANN: NGPC Progress on GAC Advice
Sat, 11 May 2013 08:50:01 +0000
The ICANN Board New gTLD Program Committee (NGPC) wishes to share with the ICANN community its progress in consideration of the GAC advice and what steps are still to be taken. The NGPC met on 8 May to consider a Plan for responding to the Governmental Advisory Committee’s advice on New gTLDs, transmitted to the [...] - ICANN: Whois Information Status Policy
Sat, 11 May 2013 08:46:45 +0000
Purpose (Brief): ICANN is opening a Public Comment Period for the proposed Whois Information Status Policy. Members of the Internet Community are asked to provide feedback on the proposed document. The proposed Policy is based on a recommendation from the Generic Names Supporting Organization Council related to the display of statuses in the Whois output [...] - .MELBOURNE One Of 300 Passing ICANN’s Initial Evaluation
Sat, 11 May 2013 05:36:58 +0000
The first Australian generic Top Level Domain application has passed its initial evaluation. On Friday ICANN said ‘.melbourne’ has passed its technical and financial evaluations, with the number passing this stage now reaching 300, and being the next step in getting the gTLD up and running. The .melbourne is being led by the Victorian State [...] - KSregistry becomes registry provider for .GD
Wed, 08 May 2013 12:34:36 +0000
The German provider of registry services, KSregistry, has been delegated the role of providing registry services for .gd, the ccTLD for Grenada. Due to problems with the previous registry provider, , IANA performed a re-delegation which brought back the .GD zone under the control and the responsibility of the National Telecommunications Regulatory Commission (NTRC) on [...]
