While many parking companies seem to be having issues it's interesting to see a new "player" entering the foray.Chitika, which is best known for it's "blog friendly" advertising solutions, has just launched a domain parking solution called "Chitika for Domains".The "beta" nature of the solution reveals itself very quickly if you try to explore it in any great depth. In less … [Read more...] about Chitika Launches Parking Solution
More Hobbit WIPO Decisions
Remember the drunkenhobbit.com decision?Well there's a new one today covering hobbits.com and hobbitts.comIf you're going to grab a Tolkien related domain choose something truly generic. It will save you a lot of headaches :)Trying to argue that the term "hobbit" is NOT an invention of Tolkien's didn't work in the past, so how it would work now is beyond meWith the new film … [Read more...] about More Hobbit WIPO Decisions
AFNIC Announces EPP
AFNIC has announced the end of its consultation on EPP and issued a press release this afternoon:AFNIC's consultative committees agree on the implementation of EPPAFNIC's consultative committees have convened on the 13th and the 14thof March 2008, following an intense semester when AFNIC has passed onemillion registrations in .fr.A number of important changes have been … [Read more...] about AFNIC Announces EPP
Hugo Boss Wins UDRP
Hugo Boss has won a WIPO UDRP for the domain hugoboss.tv.The only "interesting" part of the decision is that the domain had been held by the registrant since 2005. So was Hugo Boss slow to act or have they only started worrying about their domain portfolio recently?The domain is currently showing eNom's default holding page and the whois output isn't giving away much:Domain … [Read more...] about Hugo Boss Wins UDRP
Nominet PAB Election Results Announced
Nominet's PAB election results have been announced and the following four people have been elected:Robert TaylorClive D.W. FeatherNora Nanayakkara Simon BezantFull details here … [Read more...] about Nominet PAB Election Results Announced
Dotasia Proves That Commerce Sells
The DotAsia launch is more or less over at this stage, so it's as good a time as any to examine which names people were most interested in acquiring.According to a recent post on Stephane Vangelder's blog over 500k applications were receivedIt's not big surprise that more than one entity was interested in acquiring sex.asia, but Stephane notes that buy.asia was in much higher … [Read more...] about Dotasia Proves That Commerce Sells
Nominet PAB Election
Nominet's election for its Policy Advisory Board has started.Further details on how to vote may be found on the Nominet siteThe candidates this year come from very diverse backgrounds and encompass a wide range of interests. … [Read more...] about Nominet PAB Election
ICANN Paris Meeting Registration Open
Registration for the next ICANN public meeting, which is to be held in Paris, France, is now open.I'm not sure how many rooms have been set aside for ICANN delegates, but as the meeting is being held in a central location in Paris it shouldn't be too hard to find alternatives. … [Read more...] about ICANN Paris Meeting Registration Open
IANA Cleans Up Registry
With all the talk about the depletion of IPv4 space and efforts to stretch the existing IP space out as much as possible it's nice to see that IANA have cleaned up their registry. Leo Vegoda explains in a recent post on the ICANN blog how they've made it all a lot more transparent and less confusing to see who is actually in charge of a /8 … [Read more...] about IANA Cleans Up Registry
Eurid Updates Backend – Tweaks Web Whois Interface
Eurid, the registry for .eu, has updated some of their backend systems while also tweaking some of their frontend interfaces.The web based WHOIS has been slightly changed to further protect privacy. … [Read more...] about Eurid Updates Backend – Tweaks Web Whois Interface