ICANN announced that it is now accepting comments for proposed changes to the Registrar Accreditation Agreements, those agreements registrars sign with ICANN which in part, govern registrars conduct. This is the time that you can send a clear message to ICANN that certain practice of registrars should be outlawed and let them know of any instances of improper conduct on the part of … [Read more...]
Archives for June 2008
GoDaddy Stops Employee’s From Bidding in TDNAM Auction
Today as reported by DomainNameWire.com the General Counsel of GoDaddy, Christine Jones announced that """"To ensure customer confidence and to avoid any possible future questions of impropriety all GD employees are now and in the future prohibited from participating in TDNAM auctions, purchasing, sales & back orders."""" We applaud GoDaddy in reversing their policy and taking this … [Read more...]
Maybe Getting that New Domain Extension Won’t be That Easy
Looking at the draft flow chart that ICANN has posted for the process of obtaining new extensions, it looks like it may not be a quick and easy process as the press described. Certainly you can count next year out. An extension can be knocked out by if it is "too similar to reserved names or existing TLD's and /or likely to cause instability." If it passes that test it still can be … [Read more...]
New Extension .CYM: That Wouldn’t Confuse Anyone, Would It?
According to an article, New Whales is going for the .CYM extension for a Welsh websites. South Wales West AM Bethan Jenkins said the ICANN annoucement: "could, in effect, pave the way for the dotCYM domain name to be used for Welsh website addresses. It's important that the world has access to everything that Wales has to offer and I believe that a dot CYM web address would be one way of … [Read more...]
GoDaddy Insider Bidding makes non-domain Blog Headlines
Slashdot.org, a non-domain blog has picked up the story about Adam Dicker the VP of Godaddy in charge of their aftermarket auctions bidding on such auctions. Good to see. We need to get the word out about this story and Tucows who has taken domains, right from registrants and kept them for themselves. Image if Network Solutions did that, pick the best of the expiring domains off the top … [Read more...]
At 2.1 Million Dollars its a Very Expensive Meal and a Record Setter
A Chinese investment fund manager won a lunch with billionaire Warren Buffett by bidding $2.1 million in the most expensive charity auction ever held on eBay. Zhao Danyang of the Hong Kong-based Pureheart China Growth Investment Fund won the auction, which ended Friday evening with a bid of $2,110,100. Buffett has been auctioning off lunches online for six years but began auctioning the lunches … [Read more...]
How Can A .xxx/.sex Extension Be OK Now?
I have read hundreds of stories about ICANN voting to allow the creation of an unlimited amount of domain extensions in the mainstream media. Each and everyone of these article talks about an adult extension .xxx/.sex or some other version as a foregone conclusion in terms of popularity among users and applicants. The question is how can ICANN approve an adult extension now having turned down … [Read more...]