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Riding on Expiring Domains: Are Registrars Abusing Owners' Rights?

• Comment posted Oct 11, 2005 4:37 am PDT — by DomainNameWire
  I can’t disagree more. If a registrar puts its own site on a non-expired domain, that would be wrong. But we’re talking about a domain that someone has discontinued paying for. If you stop paying your rent, you get evicted. People that believe grace periods are there for abuse are the same people that pay their credit card bills late. There’s no difference here. 

Vint Cerf's Keynote at Domain Roundtable

• Comment posted Apr 23, 2006 6:19 am PDT — by DomainNameWire
  With regards to adding new TLDs, are you suggesting that anyone that meets minimum requirements should be able to start a new TLD?  Please clarify. Not related to your comment, I'd like to stress that Vint Cerf's comments about "some…

Wall Street Journal Article on Whois Privacy

• Comment posted Apr 29, 2006 3:27 am PDT — by DomainNameWire
  Both good points.  I should mention that Paul Twomey also mentioned fighting child porn along with terrorism.  As someone at the conference pointed out, however, law enforcement already has access to unlisted phone numbers when they try to fight these…

New York Passing New Domain Name Law

• Comment posted May 25, 2006 9:39 pm PDT — by DomainNameWire
  I rarely think about the big companies that are inefficient at maintaining their domain portfolios, but can you imagine what it would be like for trademark holders if there were thousands of domain extensions?  To protect their brand they'd have…

• Comment posted May 25, 2006 6:44 pm PDT — by DomainNameWire
  I can almost guarantee you that's why she's pushing this law through :) At least she has senatorlittle.com

Will Splogs Kill .INFO Domains?

• Comment posted Aug 29, 2006 1:49 am PDT — by DomainNameWire
  gpmgroup.com, that's possible.  I'm going on what employees of several search engines have told me, but I guess it's not entirely relevant to the discussion.

• Comment posted Aug 28, 2006 2:36 am PDT — by DomainNameWire
  This isn’t a stretch, since many search engines give bonus value to links from .edu domains. is a common fallacy. The Engines are agnostic towards the .TLD part of incoming links. This isn't a fallacy.  Several search engines give higher…

• Comment posted Aug 27, 2006 5:16 pm PDT — by DomainNameWire
  Guys, noticed what I said: It would be unfortunate for search engines to start discounting a site’s rank because of its domain extension. So I don't understand why you are taking time to point out that many .info domains are…

Do We Need Title Insurance for Domain Names?

• Comment posted Dec 01, 2006 9:15 pm PST — by Andrew Allemann
  The DomainTools data is a good start, which is why I mentioned NI is a potential provider of this service.  But it's not enough…

Network Solutions Responds to Front Running Accusations

• Comment posted Jan 09, 2008 3:54 am PST — by Andrew Allemann
  "One more thing, they seem to be emphasizing the angle that front running is about moentizing and they are not monetizing their domains. But by reserving the domain to be registered only at Netsol they are, in a very real…

• Comment posted Jan 09, 2008 2:26 am PST — by Andrew Allemann
  Did he really mean to say that the "registries" sell this data?  In my interview today with NetSol's head of PR, she claimed that the data was being sold/stolen between where it was queried at the registrar and picked up…