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Chinese ccTLD operator CNNIC Hit By “Largest Ever” Denial of Service Attack
August 26, 2013 @ 4:22 AMChinese ccTLD operator CNNIC suffered up to half a day of degraded performance and intermittent accessibility yesterday, after being hit by what it called its “largest ever” denial of service attack. CNNIC is one of ICANN’s three Emergency Back-End Registry Operators, contracted to take over the running of any new gTLD registries that fail. It’s […]
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ICANN Spends Almost $1.5 Million On NON-STAFFERS To Attend Last Two ICANN Meetings; Including GAC Members
August 24, 2013 @ 7:21 AMAccording 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 non-staffers as well…
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GoDaddy CEO Named As Possible Successor to Steve Ballmer at Microsoft
August 23, 2013 @ 12:46 PMWall Street Journal says Irving might be a candidate for Microsoft’s top spot. With Steve Ballmer heading to the exit at Microsoft within the next year, speculation about his replacement is rampant. One name that has come up: Blake Irving, who took over the reigns at domain name registrar GoDaddy earlier this year. Wall Street […]
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85 New gTLD Pass ICANN IE, 7 Go to Extended Evaluation; 1 Fails: Passing .rio; .netflix; .ping; .lamborghini .tiffany
August 23, 2013 @ 10:08 AM85 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…
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Failures Mount Up As ICANN Releases Penultimate Week of Initial Examination Results
August 23, 2013 @ 9:59 AMEight new gTLD applications flunked Initial Evaluation this week, according to ICANN’s just-released results. One of them, the Taipei City Government’s bid for .taipei, has been flagged as “Ineligible for Further Review” — the only application to receive such a status to date — suggesting it is fully dead. But the full IE report delivered […]
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Police Officer in Jail for Buying Domains of Police Chief & Pointing Them to Porn
August 23, 2013 @ 9:40 AMAccording 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.”
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Verisign and PIR Get Wins for IDN Top Level Domain Names
August 23, 2013 @ 9:08 AMCompany that offered pseudo-domains loses objections to IDN top level domains. Verisign and Public Interest Registry have successfully defended applications for internationalized domain names that are transliterations of existing top level domain names. Regtime Ltd. and Legato Ltd filed legal rights objections against Verisign’s application for .ком and PIR’s application for .орг. These are transliterations […]
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Russian Registrar Regtime Ltd. Lose Two Legal Rights Objections to PIRs .opr & .verisign’s .kom
August 23, 2013 @ 9:04 AMRegtime 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…
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VipSpace Enterprises Llc Withdraws Application for New gTLD .vip: Now 118 Withdrawn New gTLD Apps
August 23, 2013 @ 7:26 AMVipspace 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…
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Bank Takes Blame for gTLD Name Collision
August 23, 2013 @ 1:54 AMThe Commonwealth Bank of Australia, which has applied for the new gTLD .cba, has told ICANN that its own systems are to blame for most of the error traffic the string sees at the DNS root. The company wants ICANN to downgrade its gTLD application to “low risk” from its current delay-laden “uncalculated” status, saying […]
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