Month: May 2014

ICANN’s Registrar Extranet Taken Offline Due to Security Issues

ICANN  announced late last night that they had taken RADAR, which is essentially an extranet for registrars, offline due to security issues. Here’s the official announcement: ICANN has taken its registrar contact information database (RADAR) offline temporarily. This action was taken as a precautionary measure after it was learned that an unauthorized party viewed data… Continue reading ICANN’s Registrar Extranet Taken Offline Due to Security Issues

Help ICANN Fix Whois Conflicts With Data Privacy Law!

ICANN has opened a comment period  in relation to whois conflicts with local law / data privacy law. Of course anytime ICANN, or anyone else, tries to make any changes to whois policy there are issues. Whois is, for a variety of reasons, an emotive subject. One of the areas that Article 29, several registries… Continue reading Help ICANN Fix Whois Conflicts With Data Privacy Law!

Nominet Elections – Big and Small Elected

Nominet’s non-executive director elections have been going on for the last few weeks. They have, as usual, been a little controversial, as various parties made accusations against both Nominet, its board, staff and the other candidates (not necessarily in that order and not necessarily by the same people at the same time .. ) This… Continue reading Nominet Elections – Big and Small Elected

Expletive Renders UDRP Complaint Void

Calvin Klein are a well known fashion company. The “CK” and Calvin Klein logos are well known. So you’d almost expect a domain dispute involving a domain name with the term “Calvin Klein” in it to be a “slam dunk”. However UDRPs and other domain disputes are not quite that predictable as they rely on… Continue reading Expletive Renders UDRP Complaint Void

OVH Pulled Up By ICANN Due To Whois Format

OVH, a French registrar and hosting provider, has been sent a breach notice by ICANN. The registrar had not updated its whois format to be compliant with the 2013 RAA.   So for example, a whois lookup on ovh.net currently returns:   # local time    : Friday, 16-May-2014 15:22:25 CEST # gmt time   … Continue reading OVH Pulled Up By ICANN Due To Whois Format

Welsh New TLDs To Launch September

Nominet are involved in several new TLDs, but they are going to be running the new TLDs for Wales. Earlier today Nominet confirmed the launch date for both .cymru and .wales – September 1st 2014. The launch will be done in phases with general availability (GA) being planned for Q1 2015 Here’s the launch phases:… Continue reading Welsh New TLDs To Launch September

Chinese Registrar Bizcn Hit With Breach Notice

Chinese registrar BizCN.com has been hit with a breach notice by ICANN. The registrar might not have exactly a “stellar” reputation in certain circles as it’s often associated with “rogue online pharmacies” and other forms of online abuse. ICANN’s letter to BizCN outlines a number of issues associated with a couple of domains specifically rapetube.org and onlinepharmacy4.org… Continue reading Chinese Registrar Bizcn Hit With Breach Notice

Small French Registrar Smacked by ICANN Compliance

A small French registrar based in Paris has been sent a breach notice by ICANN’s compliance team. Mistername appears to be a very small registrar and from what I can gather has less than 100 names on its accreditation (if it has more then I’m obviously looking in the wrong place!). The Mistername site is… Continue reading Small French Registrar Smacked by ICANN Compliance

NameCheap Gets Slapped By ICANN

NameCheap has been sent a breach notice by ICANN’s Compliance department. The notice, which was sent yesterday, shows that ICANN has been trying to get a response from NameCheap since the middle of March of this year. NameCheap, apparently, is not meeting its contractual obligations to: keep data about domain name registrants and their dealings… Continue reading NameCheap Gets Slapped By ICANN

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