If you have rules and regulations but don’t enforce them then there’s little point in having any rules or regulations in the first place. One of the criticisms that is often levelled at ICANN is with regard to compliance issues. There are a number of areas where ICANN accredited registrars maybe flounting the rules, but… Continue reading ICANN Slaps Joker.com and DNS.com.cn
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ICANN Is Not A Free Lunch
ICANN meetings are meant to be open and accessible etc., etc., so there are funds available to help people attend. But what happens when people abuse the system? The ICANN Ombudsman issued a report about one such attempted abuse and it is abundantly clear that people “trying it on” will not get away with it.… Continue reading ICANN Is Not A Free Lunch
Crazy ccTLD Price Hikes?
Image via Wikipedia Jackie Liu’s post on CircleID raises some very interesting questions, though whether or not any answers will be forthcoming or not is a totally different matter. While a lot of ccTLDs are dropping their wholesale rates others are raising them (or have raised them). The problem, as Liu points out, is that… Continue reading Crazy ccTLD Price Hikes?
ICANN Are Hiring
ICANN’s blog can be a wonderful resource and source of news. Unfortunately I haven’t been keeping up to date with RSS feeds as much over the last couple of weeks, so I missed Kieren’s post: We need a translation expert – do you know one? As ICANN is an international organisation it has to be… Continue reading ICANN Are Hiring
Domain Pricing – Is There A Ceiling?
The announcements by Verisign, PIR and Afilias of price increases in com,net,org and .info shouldn’t really come as a surprise to anyone. However if the year on year price increases do leave an interesting question – is there an upper ceiling? Will the next price increase have a negative impact on some of the low… Continue reading Domain Pricing – Is There A Ceiling?
ICANN Going To Mexico
ICANN 34 will be held in Mexico City, Mexico from 1 – 6 March 2009. I was hoping they’d opt for Cancun, but beggars can’t be choosers! 🙂 The official site hasn’t been launched yet, as there’s still the meeting in Cairo to come.
One and Two Character Domains? Dotmobi and dotcoop
Short domains are more memorable. You can’t really argue with that. However a lot of registries don’t allow them for a variety of reasons. The Isle of Man is one of the few exceptions that springs to mind, as they allow pretty much any length, but charge more for the shorter ones. The Irish domain… Continue reading One and Two Character Domains? Dotmobi and dotcoop
WIPO Orders Cancellation of Multiple Domain Registrations
Image via Wikipedia I keep a close eye on the WIPO UDRP decisions, as sometimes they can be very interesting. In most cases decisions are either upheld or denied and when they are upheld the normal followup would be for the domain in question to be transferred to the IP holder. However WIPO’s latest set… Continue reading WIPO Orders Cancellation of Multiple Domain Registrations
Using Maths To Sort Out TLD Confusion
Stephane’s latest post talks about an attempt to use a mathematical algorithm to help decide on which TLDs to allow in the future. The algorithm, which you can read more about here, works on the basis of comparing “strings” to see if they are confusing. It draws in part on the Levenshtein distance It will… Continue reading Using Maths To Sort Out TLD Confusion
Fun and Games In the ccTLD World
There must be something in the air. I’m not sure exactly what it is, but there are a lot of things going on in the ccTLD world at the moment. In the UK Nominet’s AGM is being held this week. This would normally provoke a yawn from most people – it’s an AGM – how… Continue reading Fun and Games In the ccTLD World