Two Punjab Police Depts In Domain Dispute

Heres an interesting one from TOI. Two different countries, two police forces, one domain name. Priceless. The Pakistani Punjab police and the Indian Punjab Police are known as the “Punjab Police”. So what happens when you visit www.punjabpolice.org ? What ...

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Squatter Creates Fake Liberal National Party Site

The Australian media is covering some guy who registered liberalnationalparty.org and has created a fake Liberal National Party (LNP) of Queensland. Yawn…. Now we have so called experts crying out “cybersquatter” and a heap of uneducated politicians crying about how ...

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$5.99 = .Com / .Net + Privacy + SSL Cert

Namecheap are doing a promo which expires in the next 72 hours. Take advantage of this right now! Transfer your .com and .net domains for $5.99 and you get FREE WhoisGuard and a FREE Positive SSL certificate. Just use the ...

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Snapnames Might Be Up In 18 Hours

I received the email below from Snapnames at 4am. It seems that Snapnames have employed somebody with some basic writing skills as this is slightly more reassuring. However I wouldn’t have explicitly said “It’s very important to us to maintain ...

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DNF Down – Database Error

Just after my previous post I decided to check out what the forums were saying about Snapnames being down. So off I go to DNF… only to get: What’s a domainer going to do at 6pm on a Sunday night? ...

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Snapnames New Offline Business Model

Snapnames is unavailable AGAIN! Over the past few weeks the site has been up and down like Donkey Kong. As I type this post, the SnapNames website reads: “We do not currently have an estimated up time. We will try ...

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Network Solutions, Backorders & Parking Revenue

A couple of hours ago I won another NameJet auction – nothing new there. However, the domain was registered at Network Solutions. Alongside the NameJet auction email was another one from Network Solutions telling me that I’d won the name ...

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WIPO Takes Down Fake Arsenal Site

Its been reported that official-arsenal-tickets.com had been set up in bad faith to divert business from the club’s own site. For those interested in the details its WIPO case for D2008-0842. While there have been various media reports speculating about ...

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auDA Wants Feedback On Industry Competition

auDA’s Industry Competition Advisory Panel is currently reviewing their competition model for the Australian domain name industry. The Panel has released an Issues Paper for public consultation, which sets out the current situation and canvasses the issues and possible options ...

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