ICANN board seat up for reelection ICANN’s Address Supporting Organization has kicked off an election for one of its two official representatives on the ICANN board of directors. Director Ray Plzak sees his three-year term come to an end in June. He’s standing for reelection, but has competition from three other candidates. The ASO represents the oft-overl...
DomainIncite.com - 15 hr 58 min ago
Verisign: our DNS was not hacked Verisign today reiterated that the recently revealed 2010 security breaches on its corporate network did not affect its production domain name system services. In a statement, Verisign said: After a thorough analysis of the attacks, Verisign stated in 2011, and reaffirms, that we do not believe that the operational integrity of the D...
DomainIncite.com - 18 hr 17 min ago
New gTLD applications briefly vanish after glitch A software glitch in ICANN’s TLD Application System was apparently to blame for a number of “disappearing” new generic top-level domain applications today. At about 4pm UTC today, two Neustar executives tweeted that some applications, among them the company’s own .neustar dot-brand application, had vanished fr...
DomainIncite.com - Thursday, February 2, 2012 - 14:3
.sas could be the first contested dot-brand gTLD Scandinavian Airlines System Group is to apply to ICANN for a generic top-level domain, .sas, in what could turn out to be the first example of a contested dot-brand. The company has agreed to explain its thinking during The Top Level, a conference happening in London later this month. The agenda for the meeting states
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DomainIncite.com - Thursday, February 2, 2012 - 12:56
.com passed 100 million mark in October Verisign’s .com registry passed the 100 million domains under management milestone in October, the company’s monthly ICANN registry report revealed today. The exact number of domains under management in .com on October 31 was 100,540,971, having increased by a net 690,243 registrations over the course of the month. That&#...
DomainIncite.com - Thursday, February 2, 2012 - 12:40
Startup America obtains s.co and offers free .co domains to entrepreneurs Startup America, an initiative to encourage entrepreneurship in the US, has rebranded itself S.co and will offer a free one-year .co domain registration to registered members. For .CO Internet, the .co registry, this is a pretty sweet marketing coup. The Startup America Partnership is a private initiative created a year ago in respon...
DomainIncite.com - Thursday, February 2, 2012 - 10:33
Hackers stole data from Verisign, Blacknight Hackers broke into Verisign’s corporate network and made out with sensitive data, it emerged today. The attacks happened in 2010 and the company does not believe its all-important domain name infrastructure – which supports .com and several other top-level domains – was compromised. Reuters broke the news today, but the attack ...
DomainIncite.com - Thursday, February 2, 2012 - 9:25
.me beating .co in start-ups? The .co top-level domain may have more registrations, but more tech start-ups are opting for .me domain names, according to an informal study. Doctoral student Thomas Park compiled a list of 1,000 start-ups added to TechCrunch’s CrunchBase database last year and found that entrepreneurs chose .co 1% of the time, versus 1.7% for...
DomainIncite.com - Wednesday, February 1, 2012 - 13:59
Moniker and SnapNames join Key-Systems stable KeyDrive has acquired rival registrar Moniker and rival aftermarket player SnapNames from Oversee.net, according to a statement on the company’s web site. The deal, which closed in January, would make the combined company the sixth-largest ICANN accredited registrar, with over 5.4 million domains under management, KeyDrive said...
DomainIncite.com - Wednesday, February 1, 2012 - 11:40
Exclusive: StarHub confirms dot-brand gTLD bid Singapore telecommunications firm StarHub will become the fifth company to publicly reveal plans for a “dot-brand” generic top-level domain. The company, which offers broadband internet, cable TV and mobile telephony and has annual revenue of about $2 billion, is set to announce tomorrow that it will apply to ICANN for .s...
DomainIncite.com - Wednesday, February 1, 2012 - 7:5
Cybersquatters face jail time in the Philippines Cybersquatting is about to be criminalized in the Philippines, and you’re not going to believe the penalties. Squatters could face six to 12 years in jail if found guilty under Senate Bill 2796, which has reportedly just been approved by the country’s Senate. Six years is the minimum term, but the bill does allow for
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DomainIncite.com - Monday, January 30, 2012 - 7:56
ICANN advertises new gTLDs on Twitter ICANN has really ramped up the social marketing of its new generic top-level domain program for the last few weeks, and today it started plugging new gTLDs with some Twitter advertising. It’s bought some “Promoted Tweets”, which means some Twitter users will see a designated ICANN tweet even if they don’t alre...
DomainIncite.com - Monday, January 30, 2012 - 4:56
ARI signs up 21 new gTLD clients ARI Registry Services says it signed up 21 new generic top-level domain clients in the first week after ICANN opened the program earlier this month. The majority were dot-brand applicants, ARI said in a press release today. It has found that dot-brands represent about 60% of all the companies expressing interest in a new gTLD.
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DomainIncite.com - Monday, January 30, 2012 - 3:40
Five amusing Twitter accounts to follow One of the good things about Twitter is that there’s no Whois (yet), which makes it fertile ground for pseudonymous humor. Here are the five bogus domain humor tweeters I find amusing. No, before you ask, none of these are me. I’ve only written one thing under a fake identity since I launched DI. @BobRectstrum
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DomainIncite.com - Sunday, January 29, 2012 - 11:47
Verisign to apply for a dozen new gTLDs Verisign plans to apply to ICANN for about 12 new generic top-level domains, according to the executive in charge of registry services. “We intend to do about 12. Most of those will be transliterations of .com,” senior vice president Pat Kane said on the company’s fourth-quarter earnings call yesterday. This does no...
DomainIncite.com - Friday, January 27, 2012 - 6:47
Manwin files its first cybersquatting complaint Manwin Licensing, the company currently suing ICANN and ICM Registry claiming .xxx breaks US competition law, has filed its first cybersquatting complaint using the UDRP. It’s over a .com domain, pornhubarchive.com (don’t go there, not only is it NSFW but it also looks like it panders to some very dubious tastes), which M...
DomainIncite.com - Friday, January 27, 2012 - 5:34
ICANN tells Congressmen to chillax ICANN senior vice president Kurt Pritz has replied in writing to great big list of questions posed by US Congressmen following the two hearings into new gTLDs last month. The answers do what the format of the Congressional hearings made impossible – provide a detailed explanation, with links, of why ICANN is doing what it’s
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DomainIncite.com - Wednesday, January 25, 2012 - 6:21
Sedari wins .moscow contract Registry services start-up Sedari has won a deal to support for an application for the .moscow and .МОСКВА generic top-level domains. The deal is with the non-profit Foundation for Assistance for Internet Technologies and Infrastructure Development, which is handling Moscow’s official bid. It’s Sedari’s first contra...
DomainIncite.com - Wednesday, January 25, 2012 - 4:59
Ombudsman dealing with new gTLDs complaint ICANN Ombudsman Chris LaHatte is investigating a complaint related to the new generic top-level domains program. Speaking to DI today, LaHatte declined to disclose the nature of the complaint or the identity of the complainant, but said he hoped to have the case resolved in a few weeks. He may publish an official report about
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DomainIncite.com - Tuesday, January 24, 2012 - 16:38
One-year .co.uk domains will be more expensive Single-year .co.uk domain name registrations will cost more per year than multi-year registrations, under plans outlined by .uk registry Nominet today. The registry announced back in November that it intended to loosen up its registration policies to bring them into line with other top-level domains. From May 1, a one-year .uk domain...
DomainIncite.com - Monday, January 23, 2012 - 7:22
