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...]
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...]
ICANN Opens Flood Gates To New Extensions
ICANN has unimously voted to allow an unlimited amount of new TLD's, using any combination of letters and numbers, including non-Latin characters. In CNN article annoucing the decision it states in part: """The decision could spell the end for traditional Web addresses ending .com and .org and country names like .jp or .fr with Web sites able to use easier-to-remember suffixes such as .hotel … [Read more...]
ICANN Vote is Today
ICANN is expected to vote to approve a proposal which will open the flood gates creating an almost unlimited amount of domain extensions. Pricing seems to be set between $100K-$500K for each new extension. Any extension that get more than one proposal will wind up being auctioned off the the highest paying registry. This has already stired talk of some seven figures prices that will be … [Read more...]
Tucows Response to our Post: Not Good Enough and Here’s Why
Today Bill Sweetman, the General Manager, Domain Portfolio of Tucows responded to our post of the other day regarding ethics in drop auctions. Basically Mr. Sweetman repeated much of what he posted the other day on our blog, in response to our initial post. The domains Tucows took back, were owned by Tucows. Tucows released the domains into their own auction by mistake and when they … [Read more...]
GoDaddy took down 7,000 sites in the Last 2 years
Go Daddy General Counsel Christine Jones testified before Members of the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism and Homeland Security, today about illegitimate pharmacies on the Internet. Today, House Members introduced a bipartisan bill to stop pharmacies operating on the Internet enttled 'The Ryan Haight Online Pharmacy Consumer Protection Act of 2008. It passed the U.S. … [Read more...]
Tucows.com Does Adult
In my dealings with Tucows last week I discovered that not only does Tucows own a lot of adult domains but they are monatizing them adding revenue from adult domains to their bottom line. Although their is nothing wrong with a public company being involved in the adult business, there are several of these including Rick's Cabaret (RICK) and Frontier Media (NOOF), it was suprising to find out … [Read more...]