From the Paris ICANN's meeting, where every seat was filled, more than 1,400 participants attended the new top-level domain (TLD) workshop Monday afternoon. Reports from the meeting, have quoted various people having some negative comments about allowing hundreds of new extensions, Jay Scott Evans, former chair of ICANN’s Intellectual Property Constituency and senior legal advisor for … [Read more...]
SCAM ALERT: ICANN UNDER PHISHING ATTACK AND THERE AFTER YOUR DOMAINS
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 they are trying to trick you into entering your … [Read more...]
So are you Ready For Hundreds of New Domain Extensions?
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 Icann "The … [Read more...]
Say Hello to .Tel
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 to … [Read more...]
CORRECTION
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 matter. The post was corrected as soon as we learned of this … [Read more...]
Ethics of Domain Drop Auctions: TDNAM and NameJet called out Yesterday: Today We call out Tucows
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 … [Read more...]
SEDO Parking Changes Looks Like Bad News
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 the end of a search results … [Read more...]