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A bill submitted by a U.S. Congressman was designed to block ICANN’s decision to give VeriSign control of expired domain names in the .com and .net TLDs. Other registrars expressed concern over VeriSign’s new Wait List Service, which, if it is implemented, who eliminate competing registrars from the expired domain …
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Pool.com has sued ICANN for monopolistic practices after the non-profit organization handed over control of expired .com and .net domains to VeriSign, who plans to implement a new Wait List Service.…
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After VeriSign purchased Network Solutions, the company is now splitting the Registrar business off and rebranding. The new Network Solutions subsidiary will handle the domain registration, web, and email businesses. The Registry business will stay under VeriSign.…
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VeriSign has caused a huge uproar in the domain industry with their new SiteFinder service with numerous competitors filing lawsuits against the company for violating fair trade laws. The new service allows VeriSign to profit on unregistered domains by directing that traffic to placements sites with advertising.…
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Recently released audits show that VeriSign, who was allowed to keep both their Registry and Registrar units after restructuring last year, is providing equal access to domain names, but is not maintaining daily records for these domains in the database. Federal officials have expressed their concerns over the record keeping …
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According to SnapNames, registrations for the top domain TLDs (.com, .net, and .org) fell by 3.5 million from October to June. Domain Registrars struggle to find a market in the post dot-com bubble industry.…
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VeriSign’s proposed new wait listing service, which would allow customers to pay to be place a waiting list for a priority position in registering expired domains, has caused tensions among Domain Registrars who call the plan anti-competitive and expensive. Of 17 Registrars who participated in an ICANN call, not a …
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European Registrars, including Nominet, the .uk Registry, are refusing to pay ICANN fees. The Registrars claim that ICANN “has not done enough to guarantee the stability of the servers that link domains.” The concern over stability primarily lies in the 13 DNS root servers that link domain names to numerical …
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Registrars respond to VeriSign’s charges of Domain Slamming, the process of getting domain owner’s to switch from one Registrar to another without the customer knowing. ISPs and Domain Registrars alike are lobbying ICANN to put an end to VeriSign’s anti-slamming rules, which many charge that they abuse, leaving customers in …
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Despite an FTC ruling that the Domain Registry of America cease using misleading marketing letters to gain customers, reports show that the company is still continuing their renewal scam. In the scam, the company sends out letters telling domain registrants that their name is up for renewal and if they …
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A number of domain names were sold at bulkregister.com, only to be re-released almost immediately onto the market and bought by other registrants using other Domain Registrars. BulkRegister admitted the problem was on their end, but has yet to release details on their plans to reimburse customers.…
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Network Solutions accepted approximately 800 erroneous domain registrations that contained a hyphen at either the beginning or end of the domain name. The error occurred because the software used when registering names was not correctly filtering out the errors and the actual domain name system wouldn’t be able to handle …
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Internet Domain Registrars (register.com) introduced a plan today that would lengthen the current 26 character limit on domain names to 67 characters. Register.com is one of the first few registrars that were set up to compete with Network Solutions, which until recently held a monopoly on the domain name registration …
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Register.com, one of the five companies allowed to register domain names under the new ICANN privatization plan, has registered its 1 millionth domain name. Granny-to-be.com was registered by Felicia Reymont, who hopes to sell useful items to new grandmothers on the website.…
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Domain Registrar NetBenefit is teaming with Excite (a UK web portal) to focus its marketing efforts on mainstream consumers, selling family name URLs instead of conventional business site names.…
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Network Solution’s control of the domain name registration process has ended. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) announced the inclusion of five new companies as Domain Registrars. On June 24, the process will be open to other accredited Domain Registrars.…
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The US Department of Commerce agreed to extend Network Solution’s contract as a domain name Registrar until the year 2000, in exchange for the company’s release of ‘ownership’ of the current whois data they maintain on 2.5 million domain registrants. The contract provides room for competition from other Registrars by …
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The Australian government charged Peter Zmijewski with fraud for setting up the site InterNIC.com and collecting registration fees from people who had thought they were dealing with the legitimate registration service InterNIC.net. ZMijewski collected up to $3 million in his scam.…
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One of the leading Domain Registrar applicants, Epoch, has taken orders from more than 3,000 customers for domain names that might not even exist. The firm began pre-selling names based on the seven new TLDs (top-level domains) proposed by the Council of Registrars (CORE). However, the White House recently released …
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The Clinton administration has finally made public the long awaited report on how they would privatize and expand the domain name system. The report stated that the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) would continue to control IP addresses, root-server, and addressing protocols as a new non-profit organization. IANA staff would …
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As the impending end of Network Solution’s monopoly on the domain registration market looms near, the company is scurrying to save whatever business they can by making their site easier to use and improving their billing system, and making their services and site more competitive.…
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HERNDON, Va., Dec. 16 /PRNewswire/— Network Solutions, Inc. (Nasdaq: NSOL) today announced the completion of one of the world’s largest Internet-based transaction billing systems. The new system provides for the reliability and scalability required to better manage Network Solutions’ rapidly growing worldwide Internet domain name registration services in the .com, …
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The interim Policy Oversight Committee (iPOC), formerly the IAHC, is now taking for applications from possible domain name registrars. iPOC’s authority to establish registrars is unclear.…
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PGPMedia has filed a suit against Network Solutions, demanding access to the company’s domain databases. PGPMedia wants to assign and sell domain names in competition with Network Solutions, who holds a monopoly in the domain registration business.…
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PGPMedia has filed suit against Network Solutions, alleging that the company has violated antitrust laws. PGPMedia states that NSI conspired with other groups, including the International Ad hoc Committed (IAHC), the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA), the Internet Society, and other unnamed people in order to keep it’s monopoly in …
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