Tag: icann

ICANN Compliance Sends Breach Notices To 10 Registrars

ICANN’s Compliance team has been busy.This evening they published 10 breach notices that had been sent to registrars. All of the registrars in question have ignored ICANN’s notifications to them about the audit program. However several of them also owe ICANN accreditation fees as well. The registrars found to be in breach are: Korea Electronic… Continue reading ICANN Compliance Sends Breach Notices To 10 Registrars

.Cat Registry Whois Now Respects EU Privacy Laws

The .cat domain registry has changed their whois policy and output so that it is compliant with Spanish and EU privacy laws. As of January 7th private individuals who register (and use) .cat domain names can opt to have their details removed from public whois. Law enforcement and other concerned parties can still gain access… Continue reading .Cat Registry Whois Now Respects EU Privacy Laws

PIR’s New Year Message – .Org Price Increase Coming July

PIR, the .org domain name registry, have announced a price increase in .org effective July 1st 2013. The new price will push .org to USD$8.25, which is higher than .com! That’s a price increase of $0.55. Not exactly the New Year message a lot of people would have liked to receive.. As has been reported… Continue reading PIR’s New Year Message – .Org Price Increase Coming July

Vietnamese Registrar Gets Slapped By ICANN Compliance

Vietnamese registrar Mat Bao has been issued with a formal breach notice by ICANN Compliance. The registrar appears to be having pretty serious issues. They’re not escrowing domain data to Iron Mountain (or anyone else)  even though they’re a relatively new registrar and would have been obliged to do so as soon as they started… Continue reading Vietnamese Registrar Gets Slapped By ICANN Compliance

Transparency Fail – Nominet’s Registrar Meeting On Direct UK

Lesley Cowley - Nominet CEO

Today Nominet held their annual registrar conference. Unlike other year’s there was only one topic on the agenda: The Direct UK Consultation. I wrote about my issues with the proposal a while back and Edwin Hayward has collected pretty much all references to it in both blogs and mainstream media here. While I was not… Continue reading Transparency Fail – Nominet’s Registrar Meeting On Direct UK

Right Of The Dot Partner With Escrow.com To Offer New TLD Private Auction Solution

If you have a look at the new TLD applications you’ll quickly see that there are quite a few in competition with each other. ICANN will be sorting out some form of “draw” to see who goes first and there’s also going to be objections, string contention and government “advice”. But one of the things… Continue reading Right Of The Dot Partner With Escrow.com To Offer New TLD Private Auction Solution

Fadi Chehadé Explains Brussels Meeting

Philip Corwin from the Internet Commerce Association has published an email from Fadi Chehadé that explains this week’s “secret” meeting in Brussels. Over the past week or so there had been rumours of a meeting being held in Brussels about the Trademark Clearing House. However it wasn’t clear to many either who was organising the… Continue reading Fadi Chehadé Explains Brussels Meeting

CNNIC To Implement Alternative WHOIS

CNNIC, the .cn registry, are to implement an alternative to traditional whois. According to an announcement by ICANN’s Kurt Pritz, the Chinese organisation will be implementing a “RESTful” Whois server implementation. This is based on ongoing work within the IETF in the rather oddly named “weirds” project. Of course “weirds” is actually an acronym for:… Continue reading CNNIC To Implement Alternative WHOIS

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