Policy & Law

It appears that the number of domain name scam e-mails is increasing. Over the past few days I've received a number of emails from people that received solicitations to sell their domains but the buyers turned out to be scammers. With the large number ... Continue Reading2 Comments

A story I discussed almost 6 weeks ago is finally hitting the mainstream press -- Sen. Max Baucus of Montana has introduced a bill to require adult web sites to relocate to a .xxx domain. As I discussed on February 6, the bill is a threat to all domain ... Continue Reading1 Comment

An article about denial-of-service attacks is actually a well-placed VeriSign PR campaign. Earlier today I wrote about an op-ed by a Verisign Internet Advisory Board member that suggested that VeriSign needs to hike .com prices in order to handle ... Continue ReadingLeave a Comment

Rick White, a member of VeriSign's Internet Advisory Board, has published an op-ed about the .com price hike agreement with ICANN on CNET. White suggests that increasing security risks demand more investment by VeriSign in the .com infrastructure, ... Continue ReadingLeave a Comment

The settlement between ICANN and Verisign, approved by ICANN just this week, will mean higher prices on .com domains. How can you fight this settlement? Now that ICANN has approved the deal, the arrangement must be approved by the Department of ... Continue Reading2 Comments

China's People's Daily has released a story including a denial by China's Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC). CNNIC, the registry of .CN ccTLD, released a statement about the story originally reported by People's Daily that China was breaking ... Continue ReadingLeave a Comment

Beware a new take on the old registration transfer scam. If you've owned domain names for any period of time then you've surely received letters in the mail notifying you that you need to renew your domains. But if you look closely you see that the ... Continue ReadingLeave a Comment

A few days after China announced new domain names there are still lingering questions. New reports suggest that China isn't creating a new domain name system outside of the existing one. They blame an english language story in China's People's Daily ... Continue Reading3 Comments

ICANN's Board of Directors has voted to approve the Verisign - ICANN agreement. The controversial agreement will give Verisign control of the .com registry through at least 2012. It also includes provisions for dramatic price increases for the ... Continue ReadingLeave a Comment

China has announced its own internet address naming system - but what are the implications? If you haven't already heard, China has announced that it is releasing its own domain name system. It will be used in China as competition to ICANN's domain ... Continue Reading2 Comments