Privacy laws and bad customer experience are forcing GoDaddy to rethink a cash cow. Last Friday, Elliot Silver broke the news that GoDaddy is planning to limit personal information in Whois records starting later this year. GoDaddy is the ... Continue Reading12 Comments
How to add more value to Whois lookup statistics
· Domain RegistrarsGoDaddy should change how it calculates Whois lookups. Now that GoDaddy has retired its old domain manager, some Domain Name Wire readers have asked how to download Whois counts for their domains. It turns out that this feature is temporarily ... Continue Reading5 Comments
Tucows offers “Whois Publicity” for domain names
· Domain RegistrarsCustomers can now publish their information in Whois. Tucows (NASDAQ: TCX) has started allowing customers on its Enom and OpenSRS platforms to display their information publicly in Whois—as long as their reseller enables it. Called "Whois ... Continue ReadingLeave a Comment
Whois API removes .NZ records to settle lawsuit
· Policy & LawWhois data seller quickly folds after facing lawsuit. Domain Name Commission (DNC), which manages New Zealand's .NZ namespace, has dropped a lawsuit it filed against Whois API after the parties quickly settled the matter. Domain Name Commissioner ... Continue Reading1 Comment
Appeals court affirms injunction against DomainTools
· Policy & LawDomainTools must take down .NZ Whois records while lawsuit proceeds. The United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit has ruled in favor of .NZ domain manager Domain Name Commission in a fight against DomainTools. Domain Name Commission ... Continue Reading6 Comments
.NZ domain manager sues Whois API
· Policy & LawCompany goes after another Whois record seller. Domain Name Commission (DNC), which manages New Zealand's .nz country code domain name, has sued Whois information provider Whois API. The company is also known as Whois XML API. The lawsuit is similar ... Continue Reading4 Comments
On Privacy and Information
· Policy & LawRights, privacy, and public information as it relates to Whois. As the internet community debates Whois and privacy this week in Kobe, Japan, I'd like to revisit my thoughts on the subject. I am not in favor of default Whois privacy for domain ... Continue Reading23 Comments
Domain Name Rewind: domains in January
· UncategorizedCNBC's The Profit, Prince settlement and great domain investor data were top stories last month. Here are the top five stories on Domain Name Wire in January, as well as the DNW Podcasts for the month. The stories are ranked by views. 1. A ... Continue ReadingLeave a Comment
How a Whois check could have halted a scam
· UncategorizedVictims failed to notice the registration date of the domain name used to initiate the scam. A Wendi Deng Murdoch imposter tricked photographers into paying for flights to and photography permits in Indonesia, and a more thorough Whois lookup could ... Continue Reading4 Comments
DomainTools appeals injunction decision in .NZ case
· Policy & LawCyber security service wants injunction thrown out. Whois data and security service DomainTools has appealed a preliminary injunction brought against it by .NZ registry Domain Name Commission Limited (DNCL). DNCL sued DomainTools in June 2018 over ... Continue Reading5 Comments