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Domain Name Wire Turns 6 Today -- Happy Anniversary, Andrew!
March 9, 2011 @ 8:00 AMThanks for making Domain Name Wire possible. Domain Name Wire turns six today. I suppose six years is a long time in the blogosphere. It seems like just yesterday that I wrote the first post on Domain Name Wire. But it was March 9, 2005, when I wrote about Local.com selling for $700,000. Since then Domain Name Wire has published …
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ICANN-Accredited Registrar TierraNet Latest Partner to Join Afternic Domain Listing Service
March 9, 2011 @ 6:43 AMCalifornia-based TierraNet, Inc., a top ICANN-accredited registrar, and Afternic.com, the world’s leading reseller network for premium domain names, today announced that TierraNet, Inc. joins Afternic’s Domain Listing Service (DLS) as a DLS Premium promotion partner, providing expanded promotional options to their customer base.
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GoDaddy Reports Nearly 1,000 Charlie Sheen-related Domain Registrations
March 8, 2011 @ 12:39 PMCharlie Sheen isn’t going anywhere anytime soon. Nearly 1,000 Charlie Sheen-related domain names were registered at GoDaddy.com last week, the domain licensing company said. A spokeswoman for GoDaddy wouldn’t specify domain names without owners’ consents, but said most revolved around the actor’s name and catchphrases like “winning” and “tiger blood.”
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Governments Put Presssure On ICANN Over gTLDs
March 8, 2011 @ 11:04 AMICANN has listed 23 areas of continued disagreement over proposed rules for new generic top-level domain names. ICANN’s Governmental Advisory Committee, or GAC, met last week in Brussels to decide on such key gTLD issues as trademark protection, malicious conduct, root-zone scaling, economic impact, geographic names and morality-based objections. But GAC was unable to ratify a set of proposed rules at the Brussels meeting and will continue dialogue at ICANN’s general meeting in San Francisco later this month.
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1986 Domain Name Octopus.com Could Be Lost in UDRP
March 7, 2011 @ 6:38 AMAds on Octopus.com will shift burden to domain name owner. A travel company has filed a UDRP against Octopus.com, which was originally registered in 1986. OctopusTravel.com operator Octopustravel Group Limited filed the complaint against a Singapore man. Octopus.com was originally registered in 1986 but transferred to the current …
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Australian .com.au Domain Names Hit 2 Million
March 7, 2011 @ 5:32 AMOver the past decade, the auDA board has gradually relaxed the controls of internet name management and sales in Australia while still maintaining the integrity of the system. ”The biggest reform milestone was introducing the new registry in 2002, said Paul Szyndler, auDA’s general manager of public affairs. From then on, anybody could set up a business to sell the domain names and the competition led to large price falls for those setting up websites.
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ICANN Tells Governments Where It Stands
March 6, 2011 @ 7:34 AMChairman of ICANN Board sends email to GAC explaining where differences remain. Yesterday afternoon ICANN Chairman of the Board Peter Dengate Thrush sent an email to ICANN’s Governmental Advisory Committee (GAC) summarizing where ICANN stands on GAC’s "scorecard" of issues. Dengate Thrush suggests that the consultation process can …
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National Arbitration Forum Now Taking .co Disputes
March 5, 2011 @ 1:06 PMTwo largest UDRP administrators now handling .co domain name disputes. National Arbitration Forum has joined World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) in offering dispute resolution services for .co domain name. When .co relaunched last year the only authorized UDRP provider was WIPO. Some companies were behind the ball and didn’t …
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Contest Final: 5 Worst Domain Names – Vote Now!
March 4, 2011 @ 8:16 AMThanks to everyone for submitting what they believe are their worst domain names. I got a lot of really terrible names, so it’s no wonder domain registrars stay in business! Only kidding… I have plenty of crappy names in my portfolio.
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Domain Drama Heats Up
March 4, 2011 @ 8:07 AMThe small business that manages the dot-jobs domain has rejected ICANN’s claim that it violated its agreement with the Internet watchdog.
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