According to two reports published by ICANN.org its spent over almost $1.5 Million in transporting, housing, feeding and for Visa's for 379 NON-ICANN staff to attend the last two ICANN meetings. ICANN of course pays for its own staff's air travel, hotel and Per Diem fees to compensate for meals, even the cost of Visa's to get people into the country, but ICANN also paid those costs not for … [Read more...]
12 Year Old Dictionary Word, Domain Name, Parlance.com Saved In UDRP
Parlance Corporation lost a UDRP against Dynamo.com on the domain name parlance.com Of course the domain name is also a dictionary word and the panel found "the Complaint fails to establish either bad-faith registration or bad-faith use" so the panel should have found Reverse Domain Name Hijacking but didn't even discuss the issue. Here are the relevant findings by the one member … [Read more...]
UPDATED 85 New gTLD Pass ICANN IE, 8 Go To Extended Evaluation; Passing .Rio; .NetFlix; .Ping; .Lamborghini .Tiffany
85 new gTLD applications passed ICANN Initial Evaluation today. In a record setting week where 7 applications were send to extended evaluation and one geographic new gTLD failed the application process and is not eligible for extended evaluation. The 7 New gTLD applications that are heading for extended evaluation are: 818 FRL Metaregistrar B.V. 1186 EXPRESS Express, … [Read more...]
Police Officer In Jail For Buying Domains Of Police Chief & Pointing Them To Porn
According to turnto10.com the site of an NBC affiliate station in Rhode Island, "A Richmond police officer faces charges after state police said he purchased domain names containing variations of the chief's name which redirected Internet users to pornographic web sites." The domain name involved according to one report were the elwoodjohnson.com and elwoodjohnsonjr.com. "Steven Gravier, 41, … [Read more...]
Russian Registrar Regtime Ltd. Lose Two Legal Rights Objections To PIR’s .OPR & .Verisign’s .KOM
Regtime Ltd. and Legato Ltd of the Russian Federation just lost two separate Legal Rights Objections at WIPO on the new gTLD strings .OPR and .KOM In The .OPR case the company objected to the Public Interest Registry (PIR) application of .OPR. PIR operates the .Org registry. The second objection was to Verisign's new gTLD application for .Kom which is the more interesting decision in my … [Read more...]
Vipspace Enterprises LLC Withdraws Application For new gTLD .VIP: Now 118 Withdrawn New gTLD Apps
Vipspace Enterprises LLC of Munich Germany has become the latest company to withdraw its application for the new gTLD .VIP. The application had a prioritization number of 1,804 meaning that after next week's Initial Evaluation release by ICANN the maximum refund would have only been 35% but now the applicant gets a 70% refund. Vipspace becomes the 1st applicant for the .VIP new gTLD to … [Read more...]
Frank Schilling’s DomainNameSales.com Grows To 14 Brokers & Raises Commission 25% To 12.5%
TheDomains.com just got this email from Frank Schilling's DomainNameSales.com announcing that they have grown to a brokerage teamof 14 people, (who speak 10 languages) and are available 7am – 7pm Central time. "You now have the ability to select our brokerage team to revive interest in your inquiries that have not been active for 30 days." "By opting in you can still keep self-brokering your … [Read more...]