Domaining – Expired Domain Names – Expiring Domain Names Changing Domain Name Investment

We all knew it was coming. ICANN has released their Add Grace Period Policy and as a direct result registrars are looking at changing their pricing models. Here is an extract from the new ICANN Policy: “During any given month, ...

To the left is a secret photo taken inside a leading domainers office. The photo was taken after a recent blog post which alleged that GoDaddy is warehousing domains. If you look at clause 9 in the ICANN Registrar Agreement ...

2009 is going to be a big year for all of us. ICANN wants to divorce the US government and screw up the Internet with 50 companies running new top-level domains, and application fees at $185,000 each.  This gives them ...

Last month I talked about ICANNs new proposal to allow domain names with non Latin characters. The media has yet to realize the true implications of this, so I’m going to spell it out in “plain English”. www.pàypal.com www.ebày.com www.bànk.com ...

For about 20 minutes on June 26, 2008, the domains iana.com, iana-servers.com, icann.com and icann.net displayed this message: “You think that you control the domains but you don’t! Everybody knows wrong. We control the domains including ICANN! Don’t you believe ...

Is ICANN the right entity to provide oversight of the Internet? Given the crazy proposals that have received board approval, I believe its time for a change before the Internet crosses that “point of no return” and ends up in ...

Two ICANN gTLD registrars have bitten the dust and ICANN wants to palm off their domains to another registrar. Who Was De-accredited? 1. Best Registration Services, Inc. dba Bestregistrar.com (IANA ID 473). They had 5,400 gTLD registrations. 2. DotForce Corp. ...

As new TLD’s spring up like wildflowers, how does ICANN ensure that it meets the requirement of “Strings must not be confusingly similar to an existing top-level domain …”? Well, Paul E. Black at the US National Institute of Standards ...

ICANN is seeking to appoint an independent consultant to undertake a review of the ICANN Board. The successful applicant would need to determine “whether the Board is fulfilling its purpose in the ICANN structure; and (ii) if so, whether any ...