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A once-hot Chinese social networking company that now sells used cars instead has offloaded its gTLD. The registry contract for .ren, the Pinyin for the Chinese “人”, meaning “people”, has been transferred from Beijing Qianxiang ...
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August 23, 2019 Kevin Murphy
Domain Registries, renren, zdns, zdns international
Another dot-brand gTLD has bitten the dust, but this time it does not appear to be due to lack of interest. TIAA Bank has told ICANN that it wants to terminate its contract to run .everbank, the dot-brand of a bank it acquired two years ago. It’s...
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August 20, 2019 Kevin Murphy
.everbank, Domain Registries, new gtlds dot-brands, tiaa bank
ICANN’s Centralized Zone Data Service (CZDS), is not very efficient, with only 71% of requests to gain zone file access responded to after 3 business days. CZDS is basically a portal giving access to daily raw data related to new domain registrat...
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August 15, 2019 DomainGang
czds, Domain data
Neustar has been selected as the back-end domain registry operator for the nation of Vanuatu. The company, and the Telecommunications Radiocommunications and Broadcasting Regulator, announced the appointment, which came after a competitive tender proce...
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August 13, 2019 Kevin Murphy
.vu, back-end, Domain Registries, IANA, migration, redelegation, telecom vanuatu, transition, TRBR, vanuatu
The new gTLD .gay, which was often used as an example of a controversial TLD that could be blocked from the DNS, has finally made it to the DNS. While no .gay domains are currently resolving, the TLD itself was added to the root zone over the weekend. ...
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August 12, 2019 Kevin Murphy
.gay, delegation, Domain Registries, IANA, root, top level design
The Electronic Frontier Foundation has appealed ICANN’s decision to add stronger trademark protection rules to .org. The civil liberties organization has filed a Request for Reconsideration with ICANN, saying that the new .org contract should not...
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August 7, 2019 Kevin Murphy
Domain Registries, eff, reconsideration, rfr, URS
Advocacy group blasts ICANN decision to apply URS to legacy top level domain. Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has filed a Reconsideration Request with ICANN over the terms of ICANN’s contract renewal for .org with Public Interest Registry. It’s the second Reconsideration Request filed over the .org contract extension. Namecheap filed one primarily focused on pricing. […]
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August 7, 2019 Andrew Allemann
eff, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Policy & Law, public interest registry
Company asks ICANN to reconsider its decision to remove price caps on some legacy top level domains. One of the largest ICANN-accredited domain name registrars has filed a Reconsideration Request (pdf) with ICANN over its decision to remove price caps in its renewed contracts for .org and .info domain names. Namecheap filed the request as […]
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July 23, 2019 Andrew Allemann
Domain Registrars, Namecheap, Reconsideration Request, topstory
ICANN can’t catch a break when it comes to remote participation security, it seems. Having just recently made the community-wide switch away from Adobe Connect to Zoom, partly for security reasons, now Zoom has been hit by what many consider to b...
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July 10, 2019 Kevin Murphy
adobe connect, Domain Tech, vulnerability, zoom
India registrar Net 4 India has been given a bit of breathing space by ICANN, following its suspension last month. ICANN suspended the registrar’s accreditation a month ago, effective June 21, after discovering the company had been in insolvency ...
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July 8, 2019 Kevin Murphy
compliance, Domain Registrars, insolvency, net 4 india, net4, suspension