Verisign has agreed to take down abusive .com domains under the next version of its registry contract with ICANN. The proposed deal, published for public comment yesterday, could have financial implications for the entire domain industry, but it also contains a range of changes covering the technical management of .com. Key among them is the […]
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Verisign will retain its power to increase .com prices by 7% a year, and prices in other gTLDs could well go up too, under a new proposed registry contract designed to help patch up ICANN’s budget. The proposed .com Registry Agreement was posted for public comment this evening, and the pricing terms within could have […]
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Despite the description, you don’t have control over how your listings migrate. I previously wrote about how I was opting out of the Dan.com-to-Afternic migration. I stopped using Dan.com a while ago and list everything at Afternic, so I didn’t think it made sense to migrate. But I went ahead and downloaded my data from […]
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The Neustar spin-off that once operated the .co TLD reportedly has lost a case against the Colombian government in which it had sought $350 million in damages over the acrimonious renewal of its registry contract. According to local reports, the International Center for the Settlement of Investment Disputes, part of the World Bank, last week […]
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Users have four weeks to decide what to do with their Dan.com account. Dan.com users can now migrate their accounts to Afternic as part of Dan’s sunsetting. After logging in, users will see “Migration Center” on the left panel in their dashboard. Clicking on this brings up a dashboard with three options: self-migrate now, auto-migrate […]
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It’s probably a bad idea to let a critical infrastructure domain expire, even if you don’t use it any more, as Identity Digital seems to be discovering this week. White-hat hackers at WatchTowr today published research showing how they managed to undermine SSL security in the entire .mobi TLD, by registering an expired domain previously […]
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Company tried to get the domain name via UDRP over 15 years ago. Outside Interactive, a sports and outdoor media company, has sued the owner of outside.com in an effort to get the domain name. It’s the company’s second attempt to acquire the domain through legal means. In 2006, the company’s predecessor-in-interest filed a cybersquatting […]
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A collection of six registrars in the XZ.com stable are back on the ICANN naughty step, facing more Compliance action just a couple of years after a sister company was suspended over UDRP failures. ICANN has published breach notices against DotMedia and five other registrars under common ownership, claiming that they are failing to send […]
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With the latest public debate about whether Verisign is ripping off registrants with its .com pricing now into its third month, one voice has been conspicuously absent. But the Internet Commerce Association, which represents domain investors and domaining registrars, has now publicly called for .com wholesale fees to continue to be capped and Verisign’s profit […]
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Hear why ConvertKit is changing its name to Kit. ConvertKit founder Nathan Barry was on the Domain Name Wire Podcast in 2018, talking about his company’s plans to rebrand. He shelved those plans after spending hundreds of thousands of dollars on a new domain. Now, six years later, CovertKit is finally rebranding. The company will […]
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The company, which has been slow to launch its domains, is finally rolling out two more. Amazon is finally launching a couple more of its top level domain names. About eight years after ICANN delegated .deal and .now, the company opened the domains in Sunrise today. Trademark holders will be able to register the domains […]
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While some domain registrars have increased prices faster than wholesale increases, robust competition means consumers can still register and renew domains for close to the wholesale cost. One of Verisign’s (NASDAQ: VRSN) defenses to increasing .com prices is that “unregulated” domain registrars set the price people actually pay for domains — and many of those […]
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The US government and Verisign are to enter talks about possible changes to .com pricing. The National Telecommunications and Information Administration has told the company that it “intends to renew its Agreement with Verisign” but said it welcomed Verisign agreeing to talks that “may include an amendment to the pricing terms”. The news came in […]
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Take a summer vacation last month? Here are some of the stories you might have missed. These were the top stories on Domain Name Wire last month, ranked by views. 1. DNS company files antitrust lawsuit against GoDaddy – A company that assists people with changing their DNS records alleges that GoDaddy has unfairly blocked […]
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A new report sheds light on which domains phishers use to steal information. These days, it seems like a never goes by without someone trying to phish me, either via an email saying a bank account is about to be suspended or a text message trying to scare me into logging into a site. Phishing […]
Post link: Which domains phishers use – DNW Podcast #495
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Verisign has yet again massively downgraded its expectations for .com growth, after it lost almost two million domains in the second quarter. The company said it had 170.6 million .com and .net domains at the end of June, down 1.8 million compared to Q1 and a 2.2% decrease compared to a year earlier. CEO Jim […]
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Three Republican members of the US House of Representatives have raised the specter of Verisign having to compete to renew its .com deal with the US government. In a letter to the National Telecommunications and Information Administration, the Congresspeople ask whether NTIA has made any efforts to renegotiate or obtain public feedback on its contract […]
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Brokers can earn a 20% commission by selling domains on Atom. Atom has launched its updated Cloud Broker program, which allows people to earn commissions for selling domains listed on the domain marketplace. Brokers can obtain unique links for domains listed on Atom and earn 20% of the commission if someone clicks through the link […]
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Escrow.com has second-best quarter of the past two years. Escrow.com released its Q2 2024 Domain Investment Index (pdf) report today, showing an upward trend in domain sales. The company handled $90 million of domain name sales last quarter, up from $84 million in Q1 of this year and $79 million in Q4 of last year. […]
Post link: Domain sales continue to march upward at Escrow.com
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