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Domains belonging to hospitals, power grids, public transit services, banks, and other critical services have gone offline due to the collapse of a major local registrar whose troubles ICANN has been aware of for years. Net 4 India, which has been slow...
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April 20, 2021 Kevin Murphy
compliance, Domain Registrars, net 4 india, net4
Facebook has sued what it believes is a Web.com subsidiary, claiming the company has been engaged in wholesale cybersquatting for well over a decade. The complaint, filed in a Pennsylvania District Court, alleges that New Venture Services Corp current ...
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April 16, 2021 Kevin Murphy
Domain Registrars, Namecheap, Network Solutions, new venture services, nvsc, Web.com
Are we about to see our next gTLD registry implosion? ICANN has whacked the company behind .gdn with a breach notice and a threat that it may seize the TLD, after its Whois systems allegedly suffered days of downtime. According to ICANN, .gdn exceeded ...
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April 12, 2021 Kevin Murphy
alpnames, compliance, Domain Registries, ebero, intracom, Navigation-information systems, nis, rdds, Spam
.CLUB Domains CEO Colin Campbell says he’s planning to continue to promote the .club gTLD long after its acquisition by GoDaddy Registry, announced earlier today, closes. The deal was one of several announced last night by GoDaddy, the highlight ...
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April 7, 2021 Kevin Murphy
.club domains, assignment, Clubhouse, Domain Registries
The Electronic Frontier Foundation thinks the acquisition of Donuts by “secretive” private equity group Ethos Capital represents a risk to free speech. The deal, which sees Ethos buy a controlling stake from fellow PE firm Abry Partners, cl...
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April 2, 2021 Kevin Murphy
abry, Domain Registries, eff, ethos
ICANN appears determined to make its decision-making process when it comes to industry consolidation as opaque as possible. The Org has denied a request from two rival registries for information about how it approved the acquisition of Afilias by Donut...
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March 29, 2021 Kevin Murphy
didp, Domain Policy, dot hotel, dvp, transparency
Growing new gTLD portfolio registry ShortDot has acquired another unwanted dot-brand, .sbs, which it intends to repurpose as an open, generic TLD. .sbs was originally owned by SBS, for Special Broadcasting Service, an Australian public-service broadcas...
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March 29, 2021 Kevin Murphy
.cfd, .sbs, assignements, Domain Registries, shortdot
Indian ccTLD registry NIXI has thrown a life vest to the owners of some 73,000 .in domain names, giving them a way to transfer out of slowly sinking registrar Net 4 India. NIXI also said that it will not cancel expired domains that registrants have bee...
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March 29, 2021 Kevin Murphy
.in, compliance, Domain Registrars, insolvency, net 4 india, net4, nixi
The odds of a return to in-person ICANN meetings this year is “fifty-fifty”, but the Org has no plans to introduce so-called “vaccine passports” to hasten the process. That’s what emerged during a session at ICANN 70, the ...
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March 24, 2021 Kevin Murphy
coronavirus, Domain Policy, icann 70, icann 71, icann 72, pandemic, zoom
Trademark interests in the ICANN community have called on the Org to freeze implementation of the latest Whois access policy proposals, saying it’s “not yet fit for purpose”. The Intellectual Property Constituency’s president, H...
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March 17, 2021 Kevin Murphy
.eu, Domain Policy, epdp, gdpr, gnso, nis2, odp