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ICANN’s Compliance Goes After Telefonica?

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ICANN's compliance team have been kept busy this week. They've issued 3 breach notices to registrars: Virtucom Networks S.A - for non-payment of fees Telefonica Brasil S.A. - for non-payment of fees. Black Ice Domains, Inc - for not paying their fees. Judging by the details in the letter ICANN has been going back and forth with them on this since last summer. Of … [Read more...] about ICANN’s Compliance Goes After Telefonica?

Art. 29 Data Protection Working Party To ICANN – Maybe You’re Hard Of Hearing?

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ICANN has been sent another letter by the Article 29 Data Protection Working Party. However it still isn't on ICANN's correspondence page - I  found it on the Article 29 Data Protection Working Party's site. The letter, which was signed by all 28 members and represents the legal position of all 28 member states of the European Union, is diplomatic, but pretty clear. Short … [Read more...] about Art. 29 Data Protection Working Party To ICANN – Maybe You’re Hard Of Hearing?

High Profile Sports Site Suspended Due To 2013 RAA

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Under the terms of the 2013 Registrar Accreditation Agreement registrars are obliged to conduct email verification both on new domain registrations and if there are any changes made to a domain's registration details. For those of us in the industry we suspected and feared that the changes could and would lead to issues and headaches. And it looks like it's already happened … [Read more...] about High Profile Sports Site Suspended Due To 2013 RAA

ICANN Opens Hotel Reservations for London Meeting

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ICANN has quietly launched the site for this summer's meeting in London. If you're a domain geek (and since you're reading this site you probably are .. ) you might notice that the URL structure has changed. Up until now ICANN was using $city$meetingnumber.icann.org whereas now they're using meetings.icann.org/$meetingnumber I don't know if that is a significant change … [Read more...] about ICANN Opens Hotel Reservations for London Meeting

Nominet Delegates First Batch of Reserved .uk Domains

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While Nominet won't officially be launching "direct UK" until next year they've already started delegating some of the domains. Apparently 69 names were requested by the UK government and the first of these were delegated recently: Nominet has delegated the new second-level .uk domain names royal.uk, princeofwales.uk, supremecourt.uk and jcpc.uk to the Royal Household, the … [Read more...] about Nominet Delegates First Batch of Reserved .uk Domains

Telnic Increasing Wholesale Price by $1

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Telnic, the .tel registry, have informed registrars that the wholesale rate for .tel domain names will be increased by $1 per year from $8 / year to $9/year effective December 1 2013. How are they justifying such a hefty price increase? This increase takes into account inflation rates and the continuing maintenance, development and provision of the Community Telhosting … [Read more...] about Telnic Increasing Wholesale Price by $1

DotGreen Is No More

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Kevin reported on this last night. As you can see from the reactions to his post a lot of people are surprised, shocked and even quite upset that the DotGreen application has been withdrawn. It's not the only application for the string, which is why it was withdrawn, but to many people in the ICANN space it was the applicant everyone associated with the string. The … [Read more...] about DotGreen Is No More

Registrar Linked To Scott Richter Gets Slapped

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ICANN's Compliance team have sent a breach notice to registrar Dynamic Dolphin. Why? They've got three issues with them: Legal issues with company officers Failure to comply with the domain transfer policy (IRTP) Not providing registration agreements to registrants The first one, however, is probably the "meatiest" of the lot. Scott Richter has a rather … [Read more...] about Registrar Linked To Scott Richter Gets Slapped