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MelbourneIT - The Weak Link As Twitter and NY Times Domain Names Compromised 27 Aug 2013 | 07:30 pm
Two big sites have their domains compromised — and both use the same domain name registrar. Twitter and the New York Times have apparently had their domain names compromised, and the two companies hav...
ICANN Approves $200 Million Dollar Budget for 2014; 306 Employees & Still No Revenue From New gTLD Auctions 27 Aug 2013 | 06:47 pm
ICANN just approved its 2014 budget which is coming in at over $200,000,000 in revenue. The budget anticipates ICANN staff growing to over 300 people but the real kicker, in our opinion is that ICANN ...
Registries Stakeholder Group (Rysg) Supports NTAG Letter On Name Collision; Except for Verisign 27 Aug 2013 | 02:02 pm
In a comment posted on ICANN website concerning the new gTLD name collision report, the Registries Stakeholder Group (RySG) issued a consensus statement that they support the letter submitted by the N...
Daniel Negari Has Bold Ambitions for Changing The Domain Space With .xyz 27 Aug 2013 | 01:17 pm
Daniel Negari is on a mission to brand .xyz as the go-to domain name. He has big ambitions, and he’s not afraid of putting his money where his mouth is. At just 27 years old, Daniel Negari has already...
Roussos Loses Last .music LRO 27 Aug 2013 | 12:46 pm
Constantine Roussos’ DotMusic Ltd has lost its seventh and final Legal Rights Objection against rival .music applicants. In the decision in DotMusic Ltd v DotMusic Inc, published (pdf) this hour, WIPO...
30 Community and Limited Public Interest Objections Withdrawn 27 Aug 2013 | 11:41 am
30 new top level domain name objections filed with the International Chamber of Commerce have been terminated. Objectors have withdrawn 30 new TLD objections filed with the International Chamber of Co...
ICANN Renews Contracts for .org, .biz, and .info 27 Aug 2013 | 10:54 am
New registry agreements don’t include URS, but do include 10% annual price hikes. ICANN’s Board of Directors approved the renewal of contracts for .org, .biz, and .info last week. The board declined t...
All gTLD Confusion Decisions in One Handy Chart 27 Aug 2013 | 09:08 am
Dirk Krischenowski of DotBerlin has produced an interesting chart plotting all the new gTLD string confusion decisions to come out of ICANN and its objection panels to date. He’s kindly allowed us to ...
ICANN's Name Collision Plan “Creates Risk of Abuse” 27 Aug 2013 | 08:09 am
One of ICANN’s proposed methods of reducing the risk of name collisions in new gTLDs actually may create its own “significant risk for abuse”, according to RIPE NCC. Asking registry operators to send ...
15 New gTLD Applications Enter Extended Evaluation 27 Aug 2013 | 06:09 am
The first batch of new gTLD applications have officially entered the Extended Evaluation stage of the process. Fifteen bids that failed to achieve passing scores during Initial Evaluation are now taki...
