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Despite going out of business, being terminated by ICANN, and losing all its domains several months ago, defunct AlpNames is still being listed as the world’s most-abused registrar by a leading spam-fighting organization. SpamHaus currently ranks...
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December 6, 2019 Kevin Murphy
alpnames, Domain Registrars, Spam, Spamhaus
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
The two top executives at Ethos Capital are due to confront non-profits that want to stymie its $1.13 billion acquisition of Public Interest Registry on a public call tomorrow. The call has been put together by NTEN, a conference organizer that focuses...
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December 4, 2019 Kevin Murphy
abry, Domain Registries, eff, ethos, isoc, nten, price caps
Google Registry has opened up its .new gTLD for registration for the first time, but whether you get to buy one or not will depend on a team of Google judges. The company opened up its “Limited Registration Period” on Monday, and it doing s...
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December 4, 2019 Kevin Murphy
Domain Registries, google registry, limited registration period, lrp
Three more dot-brand registries have opted to kill off their own gTLDs, bringing the total to date to 69. The three self-terminating gTLDs, which all informed ICANN of their intentions in October and November, are: .工行 (.xn--estv75g), .nadex and .vista...
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December 4, 2019 Kevin Murphy
., .nadex, .xn--estv75g, .工行, Domain Registries, dot-brands, vistaprint
An article at Techdirt refers to the “self-serving” .ORG deal as the result of very “sketchy” actions by executives at ICANN. The article points out the various steps in the deal that secured the removal of price caps for .ORG d...
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November 30, 2019 DomainGang
Ethos Capital
Another proposed new gTLD has been killed off by governmental intervention. A Thailand-based company call Better Living Management Company applied for .thai back in 2012, but quickly ran into opposition from the Thai government, which thought the strin...
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November 26, 2019 Kevin Murphy
better living management, Domain Registries, gac, Thai
The renewal of Public Interest Registry’s .org contract and its subsequent acquisition by Ethos Capital is the gift that keeps on giving in terms of newsworthy developments, so I thought I’d bundle up the most important into a single articl...
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November 26, 2019 Kevin Murphy
abry, Domain Registries, eff, ethos, isoc, Namecheap, price caps
A petition has been opened on Change.org calling for the acquisition of Public Interest Registry by Ethos Capital. The petition calls on ICANN, the Internet Society and PIR to “suspend” the sale “pending an open, transparent and multi...
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November 21, 2019 Kevin Murphy
big room, Domain Registries, Ethos Capital, isoc, petition, price caps
ICANN’s board of directors will gather today to consider whether the acquisition of Public Interest Registry by a private equity company means that it should reverse its own decision to allow PIR to raise .org price arbitrarily. Don’t get t...
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November 21, 2019 Kevin Murphy
cep, Domain Policy, eff, irp, isoc, Namecheap, price caps, reconsideration, rfr