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IEDR Engages With Reseller / Registrar Community

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While a lot of registries have been engaging actively in dialogue with registrars and resellers the IE Domain Registry has been avoiding it for the last few years.This finally changed with the launch of a private discussion forum for accredited IEDR resellers in the last few days.To date the activity on the forum hasn't been relatively low key, but it will be interesting to see … [Read more...] about IEDR Engages With Reseller / Registrar Community

ICANN To Axe Add Grace Period – Domain Tasting On Its DeathBed

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Domain tasting in its current form may soon become a thing of the past.The blogs and mailing lists have been buzzing for most of today following on from ICANN's announcement that they were going to try and axe the AGP (Add Grace Period) which has been abused by registrars.While initially it wasn't 100% clear when the change would come into effect a press release from ICANN in … [Read more...] about ICANN To Axe Add Grace Period – Domain Tasting On Its DeathBed

Porn.mobi To Go Under The Hammer

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Caroline Greer's latest post to the dotMobi blog includes a preview of some of the domains that are up for auction next month.The auction, which will take place at T.R.A.F.F.I.C West in Las Vegas will be handled by MonikerSome of the domains are sure to attract a lot of attention, as they include banks.mobi, cards.mobi, tickets.mobi and porn.mobiSo how much will they … [Read more...] about Porn.mobi To Go Under The Hammer

Eurid and the failure to promote dotEU

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In some ways the failure of .eu to capture hearts and minds makes me sad. I'm European. I'd like to think that a European namespace could be a success, but that seems to be a misplaced desire.As I mentioned some time ago, the only way to grow a namespace or TLD is through usage. Once people start to see a domain extension in "action" then they begin to start using it. If people … [Read more...] about Eurid and the failure to promote dotEU

Spiderwick WIPO

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One of the latest published decisions from WIPO covers a film currently showing at the US box office - Spiderwick Chronicles.The domain in question is spiderwickmovie.comYou can read the decision hereInterestingly enough the registrant not only responded but agreed to transferring the domain but not to infringing IP per se:4. Parties' ContentionsA. ComplainantComplainant … [Read more...] about Spiderwick WIPO

Porn.net goes under the hammer for $410k

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One of the more obvious domains to attract an audience today was porn.net. Considering you can't even register porn.ie, I was interested to see how the auction for this domain would fare. With a reserve of $400k the auction could have gone either way, as many of the domains with higher reserves did not find buyers this afternoon. Although there were only two bidders on the … [Read more...] about Porn.net goes under the hammer for $410k