Tag: whois

IEDR Announce Longer Opening Hours

IEDR, who run the .ie ccTLD’s operations, have announced longer opening hours. In an email to registrars this morning the company announced that they would be extending their opening hours during weekdays, as well as introducing half days on Saturdays. Registration Services will operate from 8.00am to 6.30pm, Monday to Friday (please note that the… Continue reading IEDR Announce Longer Opening Hours

Dreamhost Hit With ICANN Breach Notice

Dreamhost is one of the larger webhosting providers out there. The Los Angeles based company was founded back in 1996 and offers Linux hosting exclusively ie. no Microsoft software. According to HosterStats they currently host around 1.3 million domain names. Earlier this week the company was hit with a breach notice by ICANN’s compliance team.… Continue reading Dreamhost Hit With ICANN Breach Notice

Video: Jean-Francois Baril on EWG Final Report

Jean-Francois Baril was interviewed by Brad White earlier this week about the Expert Working Group on gTLD Directory Services’s final report. The EWG, which was formed in early 2013 was tasked with reviewing the current whois system and to come up with an alternative. Jean-Francois explains what the report does, why it was done and… Continue reading Video: Jean-Francois Baril on EWG Final Report

Help ICANN Fix Whois Conflicts With Data Privacy Law!

ICANN has opened a comment period  in relation to whois conflicts with local law / data privacy law. Of course anytime ICANN, or anyone else, tries to make any changes to whois policy there are issues. Whois is, for a variety of reasons, an emotive subject. One of the areas that Article 29, several registries… Continue reading Help ICANN Fix Whois Conflicts With Data Privacy Law!

OVH Pulled Up By ICANN Due To Whois Format

OVH, a French registrar and hosting provider, has been sent a breach notice by ICANN. The registrar had not updated its whois format to be compliant with the 2013 RAA.   So for example, a whois lookup on ovh.net currently returns:   # local time    : Friday, 16-May-2014 15:22:25 CEST # gmt time   … Continue reading OVH Pulled Up By ICANN Due To Whois Format

Chinese Registrar Bizcn Hit With Breach Notice

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 and onlinepharmacy4.org… Continue reading Chinese Registrar Bizcn Hit With Breach Notice

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… Continue reading Small French Registrar Smacked by ICANN Compliance

Exclusive: Internet.bs Response to ICANN Breach Notice

I posted a couple of days about the breach notice ICANN had sent to Internet.bs. Earlier this evening Internet.bs’ CEO Marco Rinaudo reached out to me and asked me to publish a public response to this. For the record I do not know Mr Rinaudo personally, but I think it is only fair to offer… Continue reading Exclusive: Internet.bs Response to ICANN Breach Notice

ICANN Sends Breach Notice to Internet.bs

ICANN has sent out a number of breach notices to registrars today, however one does spring out – the one sent to Internet.bs. Internet.bs, which is based in the Bahamas, received quite a bit of negative press in the past from the InfoSec community. One article on Ars Technica, for example, called them out as… Continue reading ICANN Sends Breach Notice to Internet.bs

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