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Prevent another Parava By Mining Domain Registry Reports

Thursday, March 18th, 2010

Data mining could identify problem registrars before it’s too late. It’s always a headache when an ICANN-accredited domain name registrar loses its accreditation. But often times that’s just the beginning, as customers of Parava Networks learned last year. Parava was allegedly bilking its customers by accepting payments for multi-year renewals, and then only renewing the [...]

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Tucows Takes Over Domains from 1stDomain.net [Updated]

Tuesday, January 5th, 2010

ICANN selects Tucows to receive bulk transfer. [Update: I have received clarification from Tucows that 1stDomain did not renew its accreditation with ICANN, rather than being terminated due to any sort of breach of contract. Further, it appears that registries did not cut off the registrar's access, but instead 1stDomain did this to facilitate the [...]

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2009 Domain Dunce Award: Parava

Thursday, December 31st, 2009

Domain name registrar shuts down, exposing a host of unknown problems. It wasn’t quite RegisterFly, but the fall of domain name registrar Parava this year was a stark reminder that the domain registration business remains poorly regulated with lax compliance. ICANN sent a breach notice to Parava on February 27th, notifying it of major infractions [...]

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Site Search Data is Gold Mine for Developed Web Sites

Thursday, July 23rd, 2009

Use site search data to find out what your visitors are looking for. Navigation of web sites is mostly defined by the web designer. You arrive at the home page and click on one of the links that the web designer decided should be on the home page. You go to the next page and [...]

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Editorial: Why I’m Opposed to New Top Level Domains

Thursday, May 28th, 2009

The risks of releasing hundreds of new TLDs at once outweigh the benefits. It’s no secret that I’m generally opposed to introducing new top level domain names. And I’m not alone. Even before people started talking about a mass introduction of new TLDs, most of the domain name industry was opposed to new TLDs. I’ve [...]

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