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ICANN got hacked by crypto bots

ICANN had to take down its community wiki for several hours last week after it got hacked by crypto-currency miners. The bad guys got in via one of two “critical” vulnerabilities in Confluence, the wiki software that ICANN licences from Atl...

April 16, 2019 Kevin Murphy .wiki, atlassian, confuence, cryptocurrency, Domain Tech, glitch

David and Goliath? DotMusic confirms .music win

Cyprus based registry upstart DotMusic Ltd has confirmed that has secured the rights to the .music gTLD. Founder and CEO Constantinos Roussos tweeted the news overnight. Excited to announce that after more than a decade, DotMusic has prevailed and will...

April 12, 2019 Kevin Murphy Domain Registries, dotmusic, piracy

ICANN takes the reins again as .amazon talks fail

ICANN has re-involved itself in the fight over the .amazon gTLD, after Amazon and eight South American governments failed to reach agreement over the name. ICANN chair Cherine Chalaby wrote this week to the Amazon Cooperation Treaty Organization to inf...

April 10, 2019 Kevin Murphy acto, Domain Policy, gac

ICA to hold public update for domain owners

Domain investor advocacy group will make its next member call public. The Internet Commerce Association (ICA), a group that advocates for domain name owners, is holding a public webcast on Friday to update domain investors on policy issues. This is ICA’s first public call; previous updates have been for members only. The webcast is scheduled […]

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April 8, 2019 Andrew Allemann domain name policy, Policy & Law, price increases

Did Roussos pull off the impossible? Google, Donuts, Radix all drop out of .music race

Google won’t be the registry for the .music gTLD. The company, along with pure-play registries Donuts and Radix, late last week withdrew their respective applications from the .music contention set, leaving just three possible winners in the runn...

April 8, 2019 Kevin Murphy Domain Registries, dotmusic, far further, mmx

#FreeSpeech .com : Kirikos’s new blog takes punches at #ICANN bureaucracy

Domain industry veteran, George Kirikos, has been fighting the bureaucratic processes of domaining for almost two decades. The Canadian domain investor with Greek roots is known for his vociferous stand on domain issues and procedures, engaging ICANN o...

April 5, 2019 DomainGang FreeSpeech.com, George Kirikos, RPM PDP

Looks like .music is finally on its way

The hard-fought battle for .music appears to be over. I’m not yet in a position to tell you which of the eight applicants for the new gTLD has been successful, but I can tell you some of those who were not. Two applicants have this week withdrawn...

April 4, 2019 Kevin Murphy cpe, Domain Registries, domain venture partners, dotmusic, far further, rfr

ICANN waves goodbye to Adobe Connect over security, pricing

ICANN has decided to dump its longstanding web conferencing service provider, Adobe Connect, in favor of rival Zoom. The organization reckons it could save as much as $100,000 a year, and mitigate some security fears, by making the switch. Adobe has be...

April 4, 2019 Kevin Murphy adobe, adobe connect, Domain Policy, icann 65, zoom

.Biz may lose price caps, too

Higher prices are on the way. ICANN has published its proposed contract extension with Neustar for .biz. It mirrors recently-published proposed contracts for .org and .info by removing price controls and adding Uniform Rapid Suspension, a quick form of UDRP. ICANN clearly wants to create uniformity between top level domain name contracts. It is basing […]

April 3, 2019 Andrew Allemann Policy & Law

CentralNic gets 680,000 AlpNames domains for free, kinda

CentralNic has emerged as the gaining registrar for AlpNames’ entire portfolio of gTLD domains. The company announced late last week that three registrars in its stable — Moniker, Key-Systems LLC and Key-Systems GmbH — will take over ...

April 2, 2019 Kevin Murphy alpnames, Domain Registrars, key-systems

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