35 U.S. Senators (all Republicans) led by John Thune (R-S.D.) and Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) sent a letter to Assistant Secretary of Commerce Larry Strickling, head of the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA), asking a lot of questions (I counted 13) on the recent announcement that NTIA intends to relinquish oversight responsibility over the Internet Assigned Numbers … [Read more...]
Quick Poll: Which New gTLD Will Be The 1st To Hit 100K Registrations?
As of today there are over 414,000 new gTLD domain names registered. .Guru is still leading the pack with over 47,000 registrations and is growing at the rate of 75-100 domains a day. .Berlin is safely in second place for now, with 43K registrations and .Photography just topped 30K registrations. The question we have today is a simple one which new gTLD will hit 100,000 registrations … [Read more...]
So Far Only Three Major 4 Year Colleges Have Registered a .Education Domain
The new gTLD .Education opens up for live registrations on April 2nd but of course had a Sunrise period early for trademark holders and its in the final day of the Early Access Program. Going through the zone file I only found only three what you would consider major, 4 year brick and mortar universities that applied for a .Education domain; Arizona State University registered … [Read more...]
Kim Dot Com Forms Political Party in New Zealand
According to begeek.fr, Kim Dotcom , has launched a political party in New Zealand in time for New Zealand’s general election in September. The name of the party is The Internet Party. Arrested in January 2012 after a massive raid by the U.S. Department of Justice and the FBI, Kim Dotcom is currently on bail in New Zealand . Kim Dot Com whose real name is Kim Shmitz according to the … [Read more...]
1st URS Filed On a .UNO Domain, Aeropostale.uno Leads The Weekly URS Report
The first URS has been filed on a .Uno domain name . .Uno just launched this week. The clothing maker Aeropostale filed a URS against the domain name Aeropostale.Uno which was just registered on the 21st of March We figured we might as well scheuldue every Friday afternoon a URS weekly report So A few other URS were filed or decided over the last few days including bbva.careers and … [Read more...]
ICANN Acts: .VG; .ZM; Collision Issue, Approves Studies For 2 Round; Get’s Ready For US Exit
ICANN Board passed some resolutions last night on the last day of the ICANN Meeting in Singapore: 1. ICANN re-delegate the .VG country-code top-level domain to the Telecommunications Regulatory Commission of the British Virgin Islands. You might remember there was a "dispute within AdamsNames Ltd., the listed technical contact for .VG which is currently responsible for operating the name … [Read more...]
Whibse.com New Bulk Domain Lookup Tool
Domain name intelligence service Whibse.com has released an update to its bulk Whois tool that "quickly and accurately retrieves and fully parses all fields in the Whois records, along with reputation information, all IP address information, all server information" "If you wanted to get hundreds or thousands of domain name Whois records along with all of the server, reputation and similar data, … [Read more...]