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NetBeacon has been picked as the name for the DNS Abuse Institute’s forthcoming free abuse-reporting tool. The tool is expected to launch in early June, after software was donated by CleanDNS accelerated the development cycle, according to Institute director Graeme Bunton. The system was previously using the working title CART, for Centralized Abuse Reporting Tool, […]
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April 5, 2022 Kevin Murphy
abuse, cleandns, DNS Abuse Institute, Domain Services, netbeacon
Secondary market player Sedo has become the latest domain name company to stop dealing with Russians and Russian domains. The company sent an email to its customers today saying that it has “suspended trading and parking” for .ru domains and domains in Belarus’ .by ccTLD. It said it can no longer serve customers in Russia […]
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March 9, 2022 Kevin Murphy
.by, .ru, Belarus, Domain Services, sedo. united-internet
ICANN’s Generic Names Supporting Organization Council has approved a handful of changes to Whois policy, despite the fact that pretty much nobody was fully on-board with the proposals and how they were made. The new recommendations call for a new...
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November 3, 2021 Kevin Murphy
Domain Services, gac, gdpr, gnso, icann 72, rdap, rds
Controversial registrar Epik has acquired DNForum and says it is thinking about ways to make the site member-owned. DNForum is a forum targeted mainly at domain investors. It competes with NamePros and has seen multiple sets of owners over the last few...
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July 6, 2021 Kevin Murphy
Domain Services
I’m very sorry to report that Dietmar Stefitz, founder of the domainer conference that would become NamesCon Europe, has died, according to social media posts. His Facebook profile this morning filled with tributes, variously describing him as &#...
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December 4, 2020 Kevin Murphy
Domain Services, domaining europe
NamesCon is fully online-only this year, due to the pandemic, but that hasn’t stopped the organizers sending out schwag bags to paid-up attendees. Mine arrived this morning in an A4 card envelope. Here’s what was inside. A totally unnecessa...
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August 27, 2020 Kevin Murphy
Domain Services, namescon online, schwag
Hindsight is 2020, right? Not this time! We’re rolling up to the end of the year, so for the fourth DI Leaders Roundtable I thought I’d task my panel of industry experts with the wholly original and unpredictable question: What do you think...
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December 30, 2019 Kevin Murphy
di leaders roundtable, Domain Services, Leaders Roundtable
Ethos Capital doesn’t plan to flip .org manager Public Interest Registry any time soon, according to its CEO. Erik Brooks said that private equity firm Ethos, which intends to buy PIR from the Internet Society for over a billion dollars, plans to...
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December 6, 2019 Kevin Murphy
censorship, Domain Services, ethos, isoc, price caps
With NamesCon’s swansong Las Vegas show just a few weeks away, its agenda and speaker list is well on the way to being finalized. Organizers recently announced Bhavin Turakhia, Haseeb Tariq and Richard Lau as speakers. Turakhia, founder of Radix ...
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January 7, 2019 Kevin Murphy
Domain Services
Radix’s entire portfolio of new gTLDs is now approved for sale and use in China, according to the company. The company said today that .host, .press, .space and .website recently received the nod from the Ministry of Industry and Information Tech...
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January 3, 2019 Kevin Murphy
Domain Services, miit, xinnet