I just received this message in my inbox, which looks like its from ICANN.
You will be getting one too soon.
Looks like a very sophisticated and organized phishing attack.

They are not using an obviously fake web address.

They are using the domain Icannresolve.com

All the links on the page go back to Icann.org and resolve properly, however […]

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During the ICANN Meeting in Paris this week, ICANN annouced that it was seriously considering whether to opening up domain names to endless variations and approve hundreds of new extensions including .berlin, .paris, .quebec .cat (for Catalonia) and one for the big apple, .nyc
“We’re talking about introducing potentially thousands more names,” said Paul Levins, executive officer of […]

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The newest Tld coming to market is .tel.
Telnic Limited, the Registry Operator and Sponsoring Organization for the new sponsored top level domain .tel, today announced details for launch at the ICANN meeting in Paris.
Sunrise applications from national trademark owners will be accepted on a first-come, first-served basis as of Wednesday, 3rd December 2008.
Landrush registration, open […]

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In my initial post today on Domain Drop auction services , I INCORRECTLY identified Adam Strong as the  employee of Godaddy which had placed bids on the Godaddy auction Platform.
The correct name of this person is Adam Dicker.
Adam Strong is not an employee of Godaddy and has not engaged in any improper conduct in this […]

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Yesterday domainnamewire.com reported that employees of TDNAM.com and NameJet.com were allowed to bid on domains that were in their own company’s dropping auction service.
In the article, domainnamewire.com sited some discussions on NamePros about GoDaddy employees, including Adam Dicker, who runs Godaddy aftermarket service, bidding on and winning auctions from their own system.
Troubling for sure.
Today […]

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Sedo has on their site an announcement about changes to their parking system:
“”””””””” New Domain Parking Requirements
Sedo is implementing a few new changes to our parked domains network that will be rolled out starting this week. One of these industry-wide changes is the implementation of organic search results on parked domains.
Organic searches will appear at […]

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According to AVN.com the company that owns the domain Swingers.com is looking for investors who has a minimum of $100,000 to invest.
The managing partner of Swingers.com is quoted by AVN saying that the company is  “offering excellent terms to investors, who have working knowledge of dating traffic, in an effort to raise about $1 million […]

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According to  a report today by VeriSign domain name registrations rose 6 percent in the first quarter of 2008, continuing a trend of steady growth, said VeriSign.
At the end of the first quarter, there were 162 million domain name registrations across all of the top-level domains, or TLDs, VeriSign said Monday in […]

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This is a guest post by DomainNewsReports:
The .com.au domain industry in Australia has started going crazy with many major corporates starting to buy up premium generic names for use in addition to their own brand websites.
Here are some recently registered and traded names in the .com.au market.
The gold rush is obviously here!
Many have been bought […]

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There have been many articles written about the Google-Yahoo deal since it was announced.
All basically come to the same conclusion. The deal basically give Google a monopoly on the Pay Per Click industry.
Bad for advertisers, Horrible for domainers.
Not since “Ma Bell” the old AT&T, was adjudicated to be a monopoly in the telephone business […]

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