.org back-end contract up for grabs

Public Interest Registry has started vetting potential registry service provider replacements for Identity Digital, ahead of a formal request for proposals later this year. The company said this week that in order to run .org’s back-end, which would have to support almost 11 million domains, an RSP would have to hit a list of high-end […]

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Why did Reddit waste its money on these domains?

r/wastefuldefensivedomainregistrations One thing that baffles me about large companies is how much money they spend on defensive domain name registrations. These are domains that they’ll never use but decide to register to keep them out of the hands of people who might do nefarious things with them. This makes sense to an extent. Big companies […]

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It’s 2023 and Universal Acceptance still sucks

Non-.com domains still struggle to work on every platform. New top level domain names started to roll out to the public ten years ago this year. One of the big issues facing these domains is “Universal Acceptance.” As ICANN puts it: Universal Acceptance (UA) ensures that all domain names, including new top-level domains (TLDs), Internationalized Domain […]

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The end of “do-nothing” ICANN?

DomainIncite: ICANN’s new gTLD program hit a remarkable milestone earlier this month. Measured from the 2012 application window, on March 6 it officially overtook NASA’s Apollo Program, which put a dozen humans on the moon, in terms of dur...
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Limble.com dispute validates brandable domain investing

Panel provides a solid, nuanced discussion of domain investing that doesn’t run afoul of UDRP. A World Intellectual Property Organization panel has rejected (pdf) a cybersquatting claim for limble.com, and its rationale will be valuable for future cases involving brandable domain names. Limble Solutions, Inc., a small company with a registered trademark for Limble, filed […]

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