Policy & Law

Domain name, registered by cat, goes back to Morgan Stanley. Morgan Stanley must have been mad. After all, a consultant was using the domain name mymorgan stanleyplatinum.com in his seminars to show how large companies fail to register obvious domain ... Continue Reading1 Comment

In a move that flies in the face of established international guidelines, the New York Senate is pushing through a bill that would forbid registering the name of a living person with the purpose of selling the domain to that person. The New York ... Continue Reading2 Comments

.Tel sponsor Telnic says ICANN has approved the new TLD. On the surface this is one of the worst new domain names to be approved -- let alone suggested. As I wrote last month: This idea makes sense for one group only: the registry that will make ... Continue ReadingLeave a Comment

One of the biggest domain scammers, Domain Registry Services, will eventually run into the law. Domain Registry Services is known for sending out misleading notices such as: FINAL NOTICE OF DOMAIN EXTENSION. yourdomain.us "has now become available ... Continue Reading3 Comments

ICANN has voted to not appove an application for establishing a .xxx domain name. .XXX has been a firestorm of controversy since its backers made another attempt to etablish the domain. The Wall Street Journal ran an excellent article yesterday about ... Continue ReadingLeave a Comment

Today's Wall Street Journal discusses the fight over Whois privacy. The article on the front page of the Marketplace section starts by discussing how the American Red Cross and eBay use the Whois database to track down scammers: Last fall, in the ... Continue Reading1 Comment

National Arbitration Forum is ceased its questionable press release practices. I've been critical of National Arbitration Forum, which handles domain name UDRP disputes, for its practice of issuing press releases related to its arbitration decisions. ... Continue Reading2 Comments

Vint Cerf's keynote at Domain Roundtable in Seattle this morning kept the crowd engaged. I had the pleasure of eating breakfast with Vint Cerf, chairman of ICANN's board and Chief Internet Evangelist at Google, prior to his keynote address this ... Continue Reading5 Comments

Paul Twomey, CEO and President of ICANN, gave the opening keynote at the 2006 Domain Roundtable. Reporting live from Domain Roundtable in Seattle… Paul Twomey was the first speaker at Domain Roundtable in Seattle today. He spoke to a room packed ... Continue Reading2 Comments