Chinese registrar BizCN.com has been hit with a breach notice by ICANN. The registrar might not have exactly a "stellar" reputation in certain circles as it's often associated with "rogue online pharmacies" and other forms of online abuse. ICANN's letter to BizCN outlines a number of issues associated with a couple of domains specifically rapetube.org … [Read more...] about Chinese Registrar Bizcn Hit With Breach Notice
DotGlobal’s James Bondesque Video
The .global registry released this video a couple of weeks ago. I'm not sure if I love it or hate it, but it's definitely better than some of the ones I've seen so far .. Enjoy: http://youtu.be/yFblFlOe7fY … [Read more...] about DotGlobal’s James Bondesque Video
Small French Registrar Smacked by ICANN Compliance
A small French registrar based in Paris has been sent a breach notice by ICANN's compliance team. Mistername appears to be a very small registrar and from what I can gather has less than 100 names on its accreditation (if it has more then I'm obviously looking in the wrong place!). The Mistername site is incredibly rudimentary and seems to consist of only a couple of … [Read more...] about Small French Registrar Smacked by ICANN Compliance
NameCheap Gets Slapped By ICANN
NameCheap has been sent a breach notice by ICANN's Compliance department. The notice, which was sent yesterday, shows that ICANN has been trying to get a response from NameCheap since the middle of March of this year. NameCheap, apparently, is not meeting its contractual obligations to: keep data about domain name registrants and their dealings with NameCheap list … [Read more...] about NameCheap Gets Slapped By ICANN
Lesley Cowley To Step Down From Nominet
Nominet CEO Lesley Cowley is leaving the company. Ms Cowley, who has been with Nominet for more than 15 years will depart in July. Nominet hasn't appointed her replacement yet. Here's the release: Nominet is announcing the departure of Lesley Cowley OBE as CEO. The Nominet Board acknowledges the contribution Lesley has made to establish Nominet as a widely respected … [Read more...] about Lesley Cowley To Step Down From Nominet
IEDR Launch New Site
IEDR have launched a new website (screenshot below). The new site also combines the former "why.ie" site's content back into the main site. … [Read more...] about IEDR Launch New Site
#NetMundial Releases Final Statement
Over the past couple of days NetMundial has been taking place in Brazil. From what those of us following the event from afar can gather the meetings ran late into the night. This evening the final statement (document) was released. It's a compromise, obviously, and has "rough consensus". Here it is in full: NetMundial Final Doc … [Read more...] about #NetMundial Releases Final Statement
Tracking #Netmundial via Twitter
If you're not in Brazil this week for the NetMundial meeting you might be following it remotely. So out of interest I decided to check the stats on the more popular hashtag people are using on Twitter, ie. #netmundial Over the past 24 hours the level of activity has been pretty impressive according to TweetReach: You can follow the hashtag here Update: … [Read more...] about Tracking #Netmundial via Twitter
Norwegian ccTLD To Open Up To Private Individuals
Norid, the ccTLD registry of Norway, has announced that they will be changing their policies in order to allow private individuals to register .no domain names. The changes come after the registry conducted a public consultation earlier this year. The new policy will come into effect on June 17th 2014 at 10 am local time. Interestingly the registry will not be offering any … [Read more...] about Norwegian ccTLD To Open Up To Private Individuals
Former ICANN Board Member To Congress – ICANN Needs Oversight
Karl Auerbach has written a quite long but very detailed and well thought out letter to Congress. It's not clear which members of Congress were sent the letter. Karl Auerbach is a former member of ICANN's board and is probably best remembered by many as having taken ICANN to court (and winning) in order to gain access to the organisation's financial records. The letter … [Read more...] about Former ICANN Board Member To Congress – ICANN Needs Oversight