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ICANN says they are continuing to provide support for registrants impacted by Epik Inc.

June 30, 2023 by Raymond Hackney

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 the notice of the breach. From the post: Epik Cured the Notice of Breach The 1 June 2023 breach notice was issued as a result of the registrar's failure to pay ICANN accreditation fees. The … [Read more...]

ICANN says no sale on .org

April 30, 2020 by Raymond Hackney

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 the proposed change of control and entity conversion request that Public Interest Registry (PIR) submitted to ICANN. Full announcement Today, the ICANN Board made the decision to reject the proposed change … [Read more...]

INTA study shows most new gtld registrations are defensive

July 2, 2017 by Raymond Hackney

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 6% pay for top marks only. They uploaded the survey results to the ICANN community wiki From the report: REGISTRATION ACTIVITY IS HEAVILY DEFENSIVE INTA members are active in the … [Read more...]

Popular Topic at ICANN 58 “Two-Character Domain Names in the New gTLD Namespace”

March 20, 2017 by Raymond Hackney

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 be of interest centered around the release of LL domain names that correlate to matching cctlds. Relevance to ccTLDs These discussions are highly relevant for ccTLDs, for which the release of the corresponding country … [Read more...]

The Trademark ClearingHouse Worked So Well One Company Got 24 new gTLD using The Famous Trademark “The”

February 1, 2017 by Michael Berkens

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. Those playing the TMCH for their own benefit to get first jump at new gTLD domain names to get registered in Sunrise ahead of all other under common words like "the" Actually there maybe no … [Read more...]

Here Are The Domains In The Live RightoftheDot Auction From NamesCon Today and The Order

January 23, 2017 by Michael Berkens

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 available on Namejet All bidders bidding remotely will need to sign up for a Namejet account here: … [Read more...]

.XXX Asks ICANN For Reduction In Fees From $2 A Domain to $.25; Adds URS

October 13, 2016 by Michael Berkens

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 safeguards and compliance audit requirements". The highlights of the proposed changes are; ICM who owns the .XXX registry wants its per domain ICANN fee reduced from $2 a domain to $.25 a domain the same as … [Read more...]

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