Since April 2009, DNS BE has blocked almost 200,000 .BE-domain names upon the advice of ICANN. When using the whois, the status ‘blocked’ was shown for these names.
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Monthly Archives: March 2010
Telnic have announced that as of 15 June registrants of .TEL domain names will be able to register their domain in any of sixteen languages.
The .YU country code Top Level Domain slid into darkness on Tuesday when it stopped functioning at midday local time.
The sex.com sale, or non-sale, is back in the news with a couple of stories about it. In one, Reuters is reporting “a lender which claims it is owed millions…
With the by-line that “delay is a fact of life at ICANN” and that “dates are subject to change”, Minds + Machines have published a new timeline for the introduction…
One has to wonder where people get the ideas for new generic Top Level Domains. The latest (seemingly not thought through) idea for a new gTLD to be made public…
The GNSO Council is seeking comments regarding the commencement of a policy development process on the topic of vertical integration1 between registries and registrars. The public comment period ends on…
In order to provide additional time for candidates to apply, ICANN’s 2010 Nominating Committee (NomCom) has extended the deadline for Statements of Interest until 15 April 2010 23:59 UTC. The…
There were two six-figure domain name sales in Domain Name Journal’s list of reported sales in the week to March 14. The top seller was musicvideos.com, sold by Sedo for…
As part of the ongoing review of .nz policies, three policies are now being reviewed. The policies being reviewed are: Process on de-authorisation of a Registrar – Consultation, Transfer to…
On 19 February 2010, the Independent Review Panel issued its Declaration in the Independent Review filed by ICM Registry challenging ICANN’s denial of ICM’s application for the .XXX sTLD.
Guns.com was the top reported sale in the week to March 7 on Domain Name Journal’s weekly list of domain name sales, selling for $800,000. The sale was far bigger…
Following Google’s move to leave China, the registrar Go Daddy has announced it to is going to stop offering .CN domain name registration in testimony before the Congressional-Executive Commission on…
ICANN this week gave preliminary approval to four countries and two territories in five language scripts for additional internationalised domain names (IDNs) as part of its IDN Fast Track Process.
A global trade association for the adult entertainment industry has written to ICANN expressing their outrage at the prospect of a .XXX top level domain, saying the proposal is “not…