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ICANN is finally moving to shut down Net 4 India’s gTLD domains business, after months of upheaval and thousands of customer complaints. An Indian insolvency court this week lifted its ban on ICANN terminating Net4’s registrar contract, aft...
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April 29, 2021 Kevin Murphy
compliance, dartp, Domain Registrars, insolvency, net 4 india, net4
Security researcher Dan Kaminsky, best known for uncovering the so-called “Kaminsky Bug” DNS vulnerability, has reportedly died at the age of 42. It has been widely reported that Kaminsky’s niece confirmed his death from serious compl...
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April 27, 2021 Kevin Murphy
dan kaminsky, DNSSEC, Domain Tech, kaminsky bug
The .gov TLD used exclusively by governmental entities in the US has quietly changed managers. On Friday, the IANA records for .gov changed from the General Services Administration to the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency. It was not une...
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April 26, 2021 Kevin Murphy
.Gov, CISA, Domain Registries, GSA, IANA, root
ICANN has asked all domain registries to exempt from deletion expired names registered via collapsed Indian registrar Net 4 India. The company has been in receipt of an ICANN termination notice since the end of February, but it’s in insolvency pr...
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April 26, 2021 Kevin Murphy
compliance, Domain Registrars, net 4 india, net4
Pheenix, which used to operate a network of hundreds of accredited registrars, now faces potentially losing its last remaining accreditation, due to an ICANN probe. ICANN told the US-based company in a breach notice last week that it faces additional a...
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April 26, 2021 Kevin Murphy
compliance, Domain Registrars, drop catching, Pheenix
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