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GoDaddy has apologized to its staff after teasing them with a $650 Christmas bonus that turned out to be nothing but a test of whether they could be duped into handing over their sensitive personal info. Employees worldwide reportedly received emails p...
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December 28, 2020 Kevin Murphy
coronavirus, Domain Registrars, pandemic, phishing
ICANN still hasn’t formally cancelled its public meeting in Cancun, Mexico next March, but it appears to be planning for scheduled in-person gatherings to not resume until the fourth quarter of next year. While nobody in their right mind seems to...
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December 22, 2020 Kevin Murphy
cancun, coronavirus, covid-19, Domain Policy, icann 70, icann 71, icann 72, pandemic, The Hague
Nominet suspended thousands fewer suspected criminal domains in 2020 than last year, according to the registry’s latest annual update. For the 12 months to the end of October, Nominet took down 22,158 domains, is down from 28,937 in the year-ago ...
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December 1, 2020 Kevin Murphy
.UK, coronavirus, covid-19, crime, Domain Registries, pandemic, suspensions, takedowns
The World Intellectual Property Organization handled its 50,000th UDPR case on November 20, the organization has announced. It’s taken WIPO, which designed the policy and was the first to administer it back in 1999, over two decades to reach this...
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November 30, 2020 Kevin Murphy
coronavirus, covid-19, Domain Policy, pandemic
The UK’s health regulator is going to be added to a Nominet pilot program enabling the speedy takedown of suspected criminal .uk domains next year, according to the registry. The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency will become the...
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November 24, 2020 Kevin Murphy
coronavirus, Domain Registries, mhra, pandemic, pipcu, takedown, vaccines
Verisign has posted third-quarter financial results that were strong in spite of, or possibly due to, the economic impact of the coronovirus pandemic. The company sold 10.9 million new .com and .net domains in the quarter to September 30, a million mor...
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October 26, 2020 Kevin Murphy
coronavirus, Domain Registries, lockdown bump, versigin
President Donald Trump has leaked the CBS 60 Minutes interview footage – all 38 minutes of it – claiming that its “tough questions” were not originally agreed upon. Trump was interviewed by correspondent Lesley Stahl, who conduc...
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October 22, 2020 DomainGang
CBS 60 minutes, CBS interview, coronavirus, donald trump, Lesley Stahl, namefind, political domains, tough questions, ToughQuestions.com
The domain FlattenTheCurve.com was registered in March by a domain aficionado, who actually developed their important registration into an aid against Covid19. Sean Markey witnessed his newly registered domain go viral, getting over one million page vi...
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September 16, 2020 DomainGang
coronavirus, covid19, flatten the curve, FlattenTheCurve.com
New gTLD registry Radix made almost a million bucks in the first half of the year from renewal fees on its premium domains. That’s one data point that jumps out from Radix’s latest premium sales report, released last night. The company said...
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September 8, 2020 Kevin Murphy
coronavirus, premiums
ICANN is to seriously consider requests that community volunteers should have their broadband costs subsidized out of the ICANN budget. On Thursday, its board of directors will meet to discuss what it’s calling the “ICANN Pandemic Internet ...
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August 25, 2020 Kevin Murphy
coronavirus, Domain Policy, reimbursement