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At the Sydney ICANN meeting this week, new CEO Rod Beckstrom faced a number of tough questions about the future of the Internet. Discussing the future of ICANN governance, he stated he did not have a “fixed form opinion,” but that he was “optimistic” that a resolution would go through. …
Read More »Two Chinese domain registrars to blame
The names of the two Chinese domain registrars allegedly responsible for a large chunk of the world’s spam, have come under fire from University of Alabama’s director of research, Gary Warner. Last week I posted a short entry about Warner’s research, concluding that 70 percent of spam originated in China. …
Read More »3 months of JPA remaining
Mark your calendars. On September 30- exactly three months from today- the Joint Project Agreement between ICANN and the U.S. Department of Commerce will expire. Peter Thrush, the Chairman of ICANN’s Board of Directors, stated earlier this month that the California organisation has no intention of renewing this agreement. Besides …
Read More »No, you can't have gail.com
When Kevin Watson bought the domain gail.com for his wife, Gail, back in 1996, I don’t think either of the two ever imagined how much the gift would end up being worth. If you use Gmail, at one point or another you may have misspelled gmail.com and ended up at …
Read More ».eu domains to be available in Cyrillic and Greek
In an effort to encourage greater adoption of the .eu top-level domain (TLD), the European Commission will start allowing non-latin characters to be used in domain registration. In the past, only “a to z” and “0 to 9” characters were allowed. European states that will benefit greatly from this move …
Read More »5 domains not worth holding onto
Domainers often hold onto their portfolios for years. Rather than sell a name now and accept less, they know they can keep it until they find the right buyer maybe a decade or more later. Just like stocks fluctuate in value depending on market trends, so do domains. Here are …
Read More »Beckstrom hired by ICANN, suddenly corrects WHOIS data
ICANN officially announced today that Rod Beckstrom will be taking Paul Twomey’s place as CEO. According to ICANN Board Chairman Peter Dengate Thrush: Rod Beckstrom has exactly the sort of strong personal and technical background that ICANN needs, as we enter a period of unprecedented growth and change for the …
Read More »InMemoryOfMichaelJackson.com sells for £6,103,329
With the death of American pop-star Michael Jackson, the Internet is ablaze with news and domain speculators are rushing in droves to register any name bearing his likeness. In an eBay auction today, InMemoryOfMichaelJackson.com sold for £6,103,329 ($9,999,999 USD) via the site’s Buy it Now feature. The seller says this …
Read More »Tiger Woods loses domain name dispute
In an effort to secure domain names that match the names of his children, Tiger Woods has been filing domain disputes with the National Arbitration Forum. In order to make a case, the award-winning Golfer argued that the names are confusingly similar to the trademark “Tiger Woods”. The arbitrator refused …
Read More »Beckstrom caught faking WHOIS data
You may remember that Rod Beckstrom is the leading candidate for ICANN’s soon-to-be-vacant CEO position. While he may honestly desire the job, his conduct concerning his own domain name hasn’t been quite so forthcoming. Blog Domain Name Wire reports about a commenter who looked up Beckstrom’s domain, Beckstrom.com, in a …
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