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What do you do if you’re the government of a country without a ccTLD, because the rest of the world does not recognize you as a country? Perhaps the strangest solution to this predicament is to ask another country with a semantically meaningful c...
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January 21, 2021 Kevin Murphy
.sl, .so, Domain Policy, sierra leone, somaliland
Registrars will be asked to account for abusive domain names found on their services, under a new ICANN security audit. ICANN says it will soon send requests for information to 153 registrars, asking them to provide documentation showing how they dealt...
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January 18, 2021 Kevin Murphy
abuse, audit, compliance, Domain Registrars
Struggling Indian registrar Net 4 India has been hit by its third notice of contract breach by ICANN, in a letter delivered Christmas Eve. Net4 is on ICANN’s naughty list this time due to its alleged violations of ICANN’s transfer and expir...
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January 4, 2021 Kevin Murphy
compliance, Domain Registrars, insolvency, net 4 india, net4, openprovider
Fuji Xerox has become the latest multi-billion-dollar company to ditch its dot-brand gTLD. The Japanese-American company, a joint venture of Xerox and Fuji, has told ICANN it wants to terminate its registry contract for .fujixerox, and ICANN has indica...
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January 4, 2021 Kevin Murphy
Domain Registries, dot-brands, fuji, fuji xerox, xerox
A top story this year was the sale of .org falling through. This is the third in a series of posts about the domain name industry in 2020. Read the others here. One of my predictions for 2020 was that Ethos Capital’s deal to acquire Public Interest Registry would go through despite widespread outrage. I […]
Post link: 2020 in Review: .Org sale
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December 29, 2020 Andrew Allemann
2020 in review, Ethos Capital, Fadi Chehad, Internet Society, public interest registry
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
Struggling Indian registrar Net 4 India has been slammed with a massive breach notice by ICANN, following claims of domain transfers failing or happening without the consent of the registrant. ICANN also accuses the company, which is or was India’...
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December 15, 2020 Kevin Murphy
compliance, Domain Registrars, expiration, net 4 india, net4, renewals
In what appears to be an almost unprecedented move, ICANN is to review Donuts’ proposed acquisition of rival Afilias at the highest level, raising a question mark over the industry mega-merger. The org’s board of directors will meet Thursda...
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December 14, 2020 Kevin Murphy
Domain Registries, isoc
Verisign’s top policy veep is set to become the third chair of the ICANN working group looking at Whois policy in the post-GDPR world. Keith Drazek has been recommended to head the long-running group, known as the EPDP, and the GNSO Council is du...
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December 8, 2020 Kevin Murphy
Domain Policy, epdp, gdpr, ssad
Another new gTLD registry operator, representing three dot-brands, has told ICANN that they want their contracts scrapped. The registry is CNH Industrial, and the gTLDs are .case, .caseih and .newholland. To be honest, if you’d asked me yesterday...
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December 8, 2020 Kevin Murphy
.caseih, .iveco, .newholland, cnh, Domain Registrars, dot-brands