Chinese surge continues in latest .com reports ICANN has published Verisign's registrar data for .com from October, and it shows the continued surge of registrations in China. Last month I wrote about how two Chinese domain name registrars, HiChina ... Continue Reading2 Comments
.Com Winners & Losers: China Shuffles the Deck
· Domain RegistrarsChinese surge starts to show up in monthy .com reports. ICANN has published Verisign's registrar data for .com from September, and it's starting to show the surge of .Com registrations in China. As I do every month, I ran the numbers to see which ... Continue Reading2 Comments
Lawsuit filed to recover stolen X3.com domain name
· Domain RegistrarsDomain name was transferred to eName, a popular home for stolen domain names. The person who registered X3.com in 1995 has filed a lawsuit to recover the domain name, which he says was stolen from his DreamHost account. Anthony Alfieri-Crispin ... Continue Reading4 Comments
Domain registrars should add security check for transfers to eName
· Policy & LawRegistrar has become a haven for stolen domain names. Over the weekend I received an email from the (former) owner of ShadesDaddy.com, an online sunglasses seller. He said his domain name had been stolen. I didn't have to read on to make a ... Continue Reading5 Comments