Electronics firm Sharp wants to remove part of its new gTLD registry contract relating to Whois. The company has filed a Registry Services Evaluation Process request to get its requirement to offer “searchable Whois” dropped. RSEP is the mechanism registries use to amend their contracts. ICANN’s initial review has not found any security, stability or [...] Continue reading →

Disney lleva un tiempo intentando ser propietaria de los dominios relacionados con Star Wars: starwars.uk, star-wars.uk, star-wars.co.uk, starwarsco.uk, starwarsco.co.uk y star-warsco.co.uk. Esto es debido al reciente estreno de la película, según afirma el presidente ejecutivo de Jokers Masquerade (Abcissa), Mark Lewis. El mismo Lewis asegura que lo que ellos pretenden es conseguir starwars.uk, algo [...] Continue reading →

Security is one of those things that no one wants to think about, but we all need to be paying attention to. Moving around today’s internet requires more than the short password you’ve been using since 1998, and no, adding a capital letter at the beginning probably isn’t enough. To really be safe, [...] Continue reading →

Security is one of those things that no one wants to think about, but we all need to be paying attention to. Moving around today’s internet requires more than the short password you’ve been using since 1998, and no, adding a capital letter at the beginning probably isn’t enough. To really be safe, [...] Continue reading →

Consolidation in the domain name industry continued last night with Neustar’s $87 million acquisition of Bombora Technologies, the holding group for ARI Registry Services and AusRegistry. Bombora CEO Adrian Kinderis told DI that the deal makes Neustar the “biggest registry services back-end provider on the market”, as measured by the number of TLDs on its [...] Continue reading →

Certain habits inhibit your progress as a domainer and if you don’t identify them in order to address the issues you are dealing with, you will end up being disappointed by your results and worst of all, won’t know where to start in order to fix things. Today, I would like to refer to some [...] Continue reading →

Three new gTLD’s went into General Availability (GA) on Wednesday. Including domain names registered in the Sunrise Period by trademark holders and domain names registered in the Early Access Program (EAP) for an extra fee, here are the totals after the first day of GA: .Team 2,643 .Show 1,310 .Jewelry 961 Another new gTLD extension [...] Continue reading →