ICANN made another statement with regards to Epik. In a post titled, “ICANN continues support for registrants impacted by Epik Inc.” Jamie Hedlund provides an update. He also noted that Epik cured…
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ICANN says no sale on .org
Miracles do happen ICANN get’s it right on Dot Org The ICANN board announced that Ethos Capital will not acquire the PIR Registry. Today, the ICANN Board made the decision to reject…
INTA study shows most new gtld registrations are defensive
The International Trademark Association (INTA) conducted a study into new gtld registrations. I thought this was interesting when it came to premium pricing, 15% flatly refuse to pay premium pricing and another…
Popular Topic at ICANN 58 “Two-Character Domain Names in the New gTLD Namespace”
Centr.org published their report on ICANN 58 for the most part it was a lot of technical things that our readers might not be highly interested in. The one topic that might…
The Trademark ClearingHouse Worked So Well One Company Got 24 new gTLD using The Famous Trademark “The”
The Trademark ClearingHouse (TMCH) which was set up/ contracted by ICANN to protect those famous worldwide brand names from abuse by those nasty domain name squatters resulted in a whole new industry….
Here Are The Domains In The Live RightoftheDot Auction From NamesCon Today and The Order
RightoftheDot has released the auction order for the live domain name auction that will take place starting at 3pm PST today from the Namescon conference in Las Vegas Remote bidding will be…
.XXX Asks ICANN For Reduction In Fees From $2 A Domain to $.25; Adds URS
ICANN has opened up a Public Comment Period on proposed changes to the .XXX Registry Agreement to, “among other things, modify the fees payable to ICANN schedule and also to add additional…