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
How you can help fight Verisign’s latest deal
· Policy & LawThe 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
People’s Daily new article about Chinese domains
· Policy & LawChina'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
New domain name scam
· Policy & LawBeware 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
Confusion over China’s domain names
· Policy & LawA 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 approves Verisign Deal
· Policy & LawICANN'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’s .com ambitions – what does it mean?
· Policy & LawChina 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
2006 Domain Name Wire Survey results
· Domain Registrars, Domain Sales, Expired Domains, Policy & Law, ServicesI've finally released the complete results of the 2006 Domain Name Wire Survey! Here is the press release that goes out tomorrow morning: Austin, TX (PRWEB) February 28, 2006 -- DomainNameWire.com has released results from its 2006 Domain Name Wire ... Continue ReadingLeave a Comment
Survey: No more new domains
· Policy & LawThe majority of the domain community doesn't want ICANN to approve new domains. [Editors note: this is the tenth in a series of posts with results from the 2006 Domain Name Wire survey. The complete results of the survey will be posted soon.] Only ... Continue ReadingLeave a Comment
Swiss government claims domains
· Policy & LawThe government of Switzerland is trying to get its hands on three domain names owned by a Swiss citizen. The government claims to have a right to three specific URLs - www.schweiz.ch, www.suisse.ch and www.svizzera.ch (all translate to the country's ... Continue Reading1 Comment