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I just bought a new gTLD registry’s domain for $10

Are .fan and .fans the latest new gTLDs to go out of business? It certainly looks that way. ICANN has hit the registry with a breach no...

DomainIncite.com - Wednesday, April 18, 2018 - 13:45

Child abuse becoming big problem for new gTLDs

There were 3,791 domain names used to host child sexual abuse imagery in 2017, up 57%, according to the latest annual report from the I...

DomainIncite.com - Wednesday, April 18, 2018 - 6:39

Government gives auDA reform-or-die ultimatum

auDA has just months to either implement sweeping reforms or risk being dissolved and replaced. That’s the outcome of a review of...

DomainIncite.com - Wednesday, April 18, 2018 - 5:52

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Leaked memo alleges lavish travel spending at auDA

A report into .au registry auDA’s historical travel expenses has leaked to the Australian media, the latest apparent salvo in the...

DomainIncite.com - Monday, April 16, 2018 - 13:18

dotFM offers $1.1 million stash of emoji domains

BRS Media has started selling emoji domain names in its .fm ccTLD, and some of the more commonly ones are quite pricey. While a vanilla...

DomainIncite.com - Monday, April 16, 2018 - 8:19

Bling-maker kills off fifth dot-brand gTLD

Richemont, the company behind brands such as Cartier jewelry and Mont Blanc pens, has terminated its fifth dot-brand gTLD. It filed wit...

DomainIncite.com - Monday, April 16, 2018 - 7:42

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Now GNSO mulls emergency response to GDPR deadline

ICANN’s GNSO Council is thinking about deploying a never-before-used emergency mechanism to develop a Whois privacy policy in res...

DomainIncite.com - Monday, April 16, 2018 - 7:4

auDA refers former directors to police

Imploding Australian ccTLD registry auDA has ratted out “several” of its former directors to the local cops, it was reveale...

DomainIncite.com - Saturday, April 14, 2018 - 9:54

CoCCA to charge trademark owners for Whois access

CoCCA has become the first domain registry to publicly announce that it will charge trademark owners for access to Whois records. The c...

DomainIncite.com - Saturday, April 14, 2018 - 8:48

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Panic stations as Europe plays hardball on Whois privacy

Hopes that Whois records will continue to be available to broad sections of the internet community appeared dashed this week as Europea...

DomainIncite.com - Saturday, April 14, 2018 - 8:23

101domain founder Wolfgang Reile dies at 67

Wolfgang Reile, founder and former CEO of the registrar 101domain, has died, according to his former business partner and other sources...

DomainIncite.com - Saturday, April 14, 2018 - 6:43

ICANN confirms GoDaddy Whois probe

ICANN is looking into claims that GoDaddy is in breach of its registrar accreditation contract. The organization last week told IP lawy...

DomainIncite.com - Monday, April 9, 2018 - 13:54

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Grumpier Aussies call for more blood on the auDA boardroom floor

A group of pissed-off members of the Australian domain name industry are calling for the heads of auDA’s CEO, its new chair, and ...

DomainIncite.com - Monday, April 9, 2018 - 13:27

Afilias scraps plan to scrap Whois

Afilias has “temporarily suspended” its plan to migrate its TLDs to an essentially thin Whois model. In what appears to be ...

DomainIncite.com - Thursday, April 5, 2018 - 18:15

auDA role “could have killed me” says resigning domainer

Domainer and activist blogger Ned O’Meara has resigned from the auDA board of directors, about four months after being elected. H...

DomainIncite.com - Thursday, April 5, 2018 - 12:21

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