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According to some registrars, a new proposal by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) could possibly threaten the existence of domain names. The organization wants to expand the UDRP (Uniform Domain Resolution Policy) to include names and government organizations. Doing so would make it so that any domain owner who owns a domain that includes [...] Continue reading
A new ICANN report, Policies and Processes for Gaining and Losing Registrars, would make it easier for domain owners to transfer their names between Registrars. The reports states that the transfer process “should be easy, fluid, transparent, and inexpensive.” [...] Continue reading
ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, will be requiring domain registrants to update their full contact information on the publicly available whois database. Failure to keep the data updated could result in a suspended or deleted domain. [...] Continue reading