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Registrars accused of stockpiling 74,000 .eu domains
Talkback Huge irony: Bob Parsons has been railing on these three bogus registrars. People could have found out the true identities behind the three registrars through their web site's Whois information, but they are all using GoDaddy's privacy service to...
[July 24, 2006, 18:14]
Registrars accused of stockpiling 74,000 .eu domains
News EURid, the organisation that administers the .eu top-level domain, has suspended 74,000 domain names after launching a lawsuit against 400 American registrars for "breach of contract". According to EURid, the three companies are a front for a...
[July 24, 2006, 17:20]
News Burst: ICANN adds seven domain registrars
News The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has accredited seven new registrars and included them in its test bed for the ".com", ".net" and ".org" domains. The companies join five existing registrars that have been...
[August 12, 1999, 16:24]
Registrars accused of stockpiling 74,000 .eu domains
Talkback Ofcourse, starting a compliant will get you a charge of about EUR 1900 by EurID. It's almost as if they wanted things to go wrong significantly. I know plenty of companies that made a valid request during SunRise and got the burocrated end of the...
[July 24, 2006, 23:53]
Registrars accused of stockpiling 74,000 .eu domains
Talkback '… also, as they are American, they could not have done this, but that is a separate issue," he added. What 'separate issue'? First, why are there .EU names at all? Why are there national TLD at all?
[July 25, 2006, 20:35]
European Net registrars boycott ICANN
News A fight has broken out between a key Net standards body and Web address administrators in Europe. European domain name registries including Nominet, which runs the popular .uk address system, are refusing to pay fees to the Internet Corporation for...
[January 18, 2002, 11:36]
Nominet takes domain tasting off the menu
Talkback When will they put an end to allowing non-registrars to resell domain names? That would be nice but.registrars make a lot of money off the sale of domain names, and so they have no incentive to put an end to it.
[August 8, 2006, 14:37]
Icann swamped by Net name chaos
News The system for registering domains is in danger of descending into chaos as independent registrars are undermining Icann's grip on the current domain name system. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (Icann), the regulator in...
[April 11, 2001, 15:55]
Nominet takes domain tasting off the menu
News Nominet is taking action against domain-name registrars who opportunistically register domain names to assess how much money can be made from them, then delete them if they generate insufficient returns.
[August 7, 2006, 17:05]
VeriSign backs down over phony alerts
News VeriSign has agreed to stop sending false notices that tell customers of rival registrars their domain names will soon expire. VeriSign is also facing several other suits from rival registrars and customers who were affected by the misleading...
[June 21, 2002, 12:27]
Registrar named in massive cybersquatting suit
News A new US federal lawsuit charges that Dotster, one of the largest domain name registrars, has unlawfully participated in a massive cybersquatting campaign targeting companies such as Cingular Wireless, Disney, Ikea, Google, Neiman Marcus, Playboy...
[June 5, 2006, 9:35]
FTC backs better facts for domains
News The Federal Trade Commission is backing a plan that would require Internet registrars to deny domain names to people who submit incomplete or false applications. The FTC said on Wednesday that it endorses the elimination of blank or incomplete...
[May 23, 2002, 15:59]
The low-down on domain name disputes
News Dispute resolution procedures were designed to institute a level of fairness into the system, and domain name registrars will abide by the findings of dispute tribunals. All registrars in the .com, .net, and .org top-level domains follow the...
[December 28, 2001, 6:31]
Google blocked from asking Whois
News With NSI blocking most of its Whois queries, Google pulled the feature and information about it from its FAQ after a couple of days, replacing Whois queries with ads from registrars, including NSI. The issue cropped up about two weeks ago, when...
[January 28, 2004, 9:05]
Registrar named in massive cybersquatting suit
Talkback It seems that they are PROTECTING the registrars so they can Unless they start furnishing us reasonable service, we should have the right to choose other companies to give our hard earned money too. The kiting wars will ruin business on the net as...
[June 23, 2006, 2:09]
New competition for .com
News The consortium of existing registrars made the Afflias proposal attractive to some Icann directors, but unacceptable to others. The company is a consortium of registrars lead by Network Solutions, which held a government-approved monopoly on...
[November 17, 2000, 8:25]
Google blocked from asking Whois
Talkback The registrars are using the issue of customer privacy as a front in their battle to keep customers. It's a little too obvious and a bit sickening to see the parade of registrars that are using "privacy" as the reason for wanting to keep their...
[January 30, 2004, 16:56]
Today's the day - Domain registration open to challengers
News But that all changes today, when the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), a nonprofit organisation that oversees various Internet infrastructure projects, releases the names of the first five "test-bed" registrars that will...
[April 21, 1999, 7:39]
Want to capture a .com? Get in line
News But people can sign up for domain names through multiple companies, known as registrars, that work with VeriSign to assign Web addresses. The Mountain View, California-based company submitted its Domain Names Wait Listing Service proposal to a...
[January 7, 2002, 10:47]
Registrar named in massive cybersquatting suit
Talkback During my tenure with the company, I must have 'shut down' over 100 websites of true squatters, however began to see the pattern of consistent registrars who would only hold the domain for 1-3 days. Many of their registrars don't even have a public...
[July 28, 2006, 0:35]
