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ICANN Accreditation Under Review

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It was inevitable that ICANN would want to review the Registrar Accreditation Agreement following on the collapse of RegisterFly. At both the Lisbon and San Juan ICANN meetings the registrar agreement was a hot topic. So what is going on exactly? Paul Twomey's announcement yesterday covers most of the salient points: The need for this review is clear. The current RAA is … [Read more...] about ICANN Accreditation Under Review

Registrars Resorting To Comment Spam? TodayNic Using Dodgy Marketing

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The competition between the various ICANN accredited registrars has been tough for quite some time. All you need to do is look at the pricing being offered by some of the companies, along with the various other enticements they use to attract new registrants and resellers, to get an idea of how tough the market has become. However I never thought I would see an ICANN … [Read more...] about Registrars Resorting To Comment Spam? TodayNic Using Dodgy Marketing

New Domain Blog Launched

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Brett Fausett, who I met briefly in LA this year, has been blogging about the domain name industry for a long time and is a respected and knowledgeable voice. He has just launched a new domain related blog which should prove interesting, as his first post explores Google's latest play on domain registration. … [Read more...] about New Domain Blog Launched

A Semi-Useful Domain Management Tool – Domain Log Book

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I came across Domain Log Book earlier this evening via a post on Pinstripe The concept is nice - keep track of your domains in terms of renewal dates and page rank, however it's not that helpful if you deal with ccTLDs. I added a couple of .com domains to it and it showed me the info from whois ie. expiration date and the page rank from both Google and Alexa. However when I … [Read more...] about A Semi-Useful Domain Management Tool – Domain Log Book

DomainSponsor Changes / Clarifies Payments

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A few weeks ago DomainSponsor emailed their clients to inform them of planned changes to their payment processes. Frank covered it here. While anyone reading the email from a few weeks ago would have got the distinct impression that Paypal was being phased out: We will be phasing out the PayPal payment method Couldn't be clearer than that, now could it? Oh wait! This is … [Read more...] about DomainSponsor Changes / Clarifies Payments

Privacy – US vs EU Perspectives

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A few days ago I posted about the state of the EU. This was prompted in part by the first part of John's excellent study into the .eu namespace and activity therein and partially by Eurid's latest promotional campaign. My post here may have gone unnoticed, but shortly after it appeared on CircleID Jay Westerdal posted on his blog. While I agree with the thrust of his post ie. … [Read more...] about Privacy – US vs EU Perspectives

DNZoom Closed Beta

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I mentioned DNZoom a few weeks ago and was hoping to be able to try it out. I've been invited to take part in the private beta with a handful of others. I've been playing around with the interface and the various functions while chatting to Dan Kimball, one of the driving forces behind the new service. Web 2.0 services have been over hyped in the last couple of years and a … [Read more...] about DNZoom Closed Beta

Centralnic Pushing .LA

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Centralnic have just announced that .la domains are available to their resellers / registrars: As you may know, earlier this year CentralNic became the registry provider for .LA. We are pleased to be able to inform you that we are now able to offer .LA to all accredited CentralNic resellers. .la is the ccTLD for Lao People's Democratic Republic, but it can also be marketed … [Read more...] about Centralnic Pushing .LA