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ICANN Mexico

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While the ink still dries on the press coverage of the most recent ICANN meeting in Cairo, the next one is already gearing up.The next ICANN public meeting will be held in Mexico city from March 1st to March 6th 2009.The Mexico meeting site is already online with basic information on the venue and the meeting. Obviously the finer details are yet to be arranged, but you can … [Read more...] about ICANN Mexico

RegisterFly Rebrands?

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I don't check the RegisterFly website that often, so I've no idea when they "rebranded" The most obvious difference is subtle:has become:Not that big a difference admittedly, but still you'd have to ask what they're playing at.Back when RegisterFly was still RegisterFly the emails they sent out were a lot less dodgy as they included tangible contact details in the email footer … [Read more...] about RegisterFly Rebrands?

ICANN Shares Even More Data With Users

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ICANN may have its flaws, but transparency is one area where they have been making some fantastic progress.ICANN has just announced a range of new material available to the public via the "dashboard"You can now easily see all sorts of statistics and graphs related to registry activity, finances and more. Pretty cool!Related articles by ZemantaICANN Domain Tasting DeadlineICANN … [Read more...] about ICANN Shares Even More Data With Users

ICANN Domain Tasting Deadline

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Stephane has an interesting post on the possible end of domain tasting.While the debate around domain tasting has been going on for quite some time ICANN can be a very slow moving beast. In some ways it moves far too slow, but when you consider the range of different opinions that have to be taken into consideration for such a significant policy change to come into effect it's … [Read more...] about ICANN Domain Tasting Deadline

ICANN Culls Registrar and Attempts To Offload Domains

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As I've mentioned a few times in the past, ICANN takes a dim view of registrars who misbehave.EstDomains cropped up in the news a few times over the last few months, as their head honcho, Vladimir Tsastsin was embroiled in a number of legal issues in Estonia.ICANN finally sent EstDomains a notice of termination (burnette-to-tsastsin-28oct08-en.pdf )based on Tsastsin being an … [Read more...] about ICANN Culls Registrar and Attempts To Offload Domains

IEDR Releases More Hyped Statistics

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The IEDR has obviously released some form of press release in the last few days to put a spin on its latest figures. Of course the press release isn't on the registry's website nor has it been sent to stakeholders yet again, though I was able to get my hands on a copy of it via a 3rd party.So what are they trying to sell us today?The IE Domain Registry (IEDR) today reported a … [Read more...] about IEDR Releases More Hyped Statistics

Name.com Picks Up Esoftwiz Domains

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Over the last year ICANN has sought expressions of interest a number of times from accredited registrars to take over the domain portfolios of registrars that have lost their accreditation.The most recent bulk transfer was of Esoftwiz's names to Name.comWhile Name.com will contact former Esoftwiz clients it's always hard to know how accurate the contact information is going to … [Read more...] about Name.com Picks Up Esoftwiz Domains