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It's Time to End Domain Name Front Running

• Comment posted Jun 22, 2008 4:01 pm PDT — by Dave Zan
  Why don't they just call it what it is? Probably because they're not digging deep enough. Or it's probably because we still can't agree on what it is. ICANN adopted Nominet's definition which Network Solutions' appears to jive with, but…

Comcast Domain Name Hacked, Website Breached for Several Hours

• Comment posted May 30, 2008 11:45 pm PDT — by Dave Zan
  http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2008/05/comcast-hijacke.html The computer attackers who took down Comcast's homepage and webmail service for more than five hours Thursday say they didn't know what they were getting themselves into. In an hour-long telephone conference call with Threat Level, the hackers known…

Wikileaks Calls for Boycott of Domain Registrar eNom

• Comment posted Mar 13, 2008 6:54 am PDT — by Dave Zan
  Wikileaks made repeated requests—and then demands—to eNom asking them to identify who, if anybody, had told them to lock the wikileaks.info registration, and what claims had been made. When eNom failed to answer, Wikileaks issued their call to boycott. Ms.…

Don't Register Your Domain in the U.S. if it's Controversial

• Comment posted Mar 05, 2008 9:01 am PST — by Dave Zan
  Dell Computer supposedly got and enforced a court order on VeriSign to lock out 3 offshore registrars of their .com registrations: http://www.domainnamenews.com/legal-issues/registrar-belgium-domains-locked-out/1351 If someone at the U.S. government figures that out, oh boy.

Network Solutions Responds to Front Running Accusations

• Comment posted Jan 17, 2008 2:56 am PST — by Dave Zan
  Joe Weisenburg said: I went to Netsol to check availability of many names. They were all available. I went to GoDaddy to register them 5 minutes later and the .com's were taken. Why go through two different registrars to do…

Domain Front Running by Registrars Continues to Draw Attention

• Comment posted Jan 12, 2008 12:39 am PST — by Dave Zan
  Enrico Schaefer said: Dave:  What do you think NSI is trying to say here? What I'm simply thinking is NSI (or Network Solutions since they've rebranded themselves years ago) means exactly what they said. Whether people want to think or…

• Comment posted Jan 11, 2008 10:50 am PST — by Dave Zan
  DomainPawnshop said: But what about genuine abusive practices? If you agree they may exist, then you must agree they should be addressed in some meaningful fashion. Well, isn't this genuine abusive practice of domain front running what Network Solutions is…

• Comment posted Jan 11, 2008 2:47 am PST — by Dave Zan
  DomainPawnshop said: These are the questions I'd like to see a judge answer - and soon. DP, as long as you register a domain name, pay for it, and click the check box beside the "I agree" thing with a…

• Comment posted Jan 11, 2008 2:32 am PST — by Dave Zan
  Enrico Schaefer said: But the difference here is that people who use the NSI search tools are not customers of NSI and have not agreed to anything. So essentially, that means NSI really has no obligations to the end-user, don't…

Network Solutions Responds to Front Running Accusations

• Comment posted Jan 10, 2008 3:10 am PST — by Dave Zan
  Mike Wheeler said: 2. Lower your pricing to $8/domain. You will never be able to compete at a price point of $34.95. Your pricing is ludicrous. They don't need to. Look at the offerings on their front page and some…

• Comment posted Jan 10, 2008 3:00 am PST — by Dave Zan
  Terry Allen said: chances are that by the time it has been released to other registrars it has been snatched up by a third party front runner. Well, isn't that essentially what NetSol's trying to do with this latest practice?…

Domain Front Running by Registrars Continues to Draw Attention

• Comment posted Jan 10, 2008 2:52 am PST — by Dave Zan
  Enrico Schaefer said: The registrar deceives the consumer into using its domain availability or Whois search so they can presumably have the option of registering the domain. Sorry, Enrico, but I disagree with this one. I looked up a domain…

Remarkable Internet History: Equifax Invented .COM in 1975

• Comment posted Jan 03, 2008 6:09 am PST — by Dave Zan
  Apparently they've filed a UDRP for the .net, but not for .com...so far. I guess they figure the .com will be possibly harder to possibly obtain?

Whois: If You Want Privacy, Pay For It

• Comment posted Nov 15, 2007 1:47 am PST — by Dave Zan
  DomainPawnshop said: And, since some of the names are years-long registrations they are being sold (in some cases for thousands of dollars) by the same registrars that were responsible for contacting the name holder.  So I worry about privacy infrastructures…

• Comment posted Nov 14, 2007 2:36 am PST — by Dave Zan
  DomainPawnshop said: I like nice and am willing to concede to emotional. I'll even throw in that I'm not one of the brightest stars in the sky. I suppose that's why I can't understand the intellectually forthright comment. However, wanting…

• Comment posted Nov 13, 2007 4:58 pm PST — by Dave Zan
  DomainPawnshop said: There's also the other side of that issue too… http://whoshouldbe.com/examples.php Nice emotional sell. Too bad it's not intellectually forthright.

Are Domain Name Portfolios Actually Worth What They Are Touted to Be?

• Comment posted Oct 27, 2007 6:12 pm PDT — by Dave Zan
  Something that might "interest" you, Suresh: http://www.yvoschaap.com/... Won't be surprising if that blog author read your "rant" here. Enjoy. :)

Developing Internet Standards: How Can the Engineering Community and the Users Meet?

• Comment posted Sep 21, 2007 7:39 am PDT — by Dave Zan
  End users are represented in ICANN. They are? Who exactly?

More on WHOIS Privacy

• Comment posted Sep 08, 2007 9:05 am PDT — by Dave Zan
  Indeed, it will most likely cost the registrar quite some money, but I rather have them have a few less millions and a more safe internet where people can be hold accountable. One can always switch to a registrar whose…

Phishers Now Targeting Domain Registrars

• Comment posted Aug 09, 2007 8:21 am PDT — by Dave Zan
  So Go Daddy has to worry about potential customers complaining of their searched domain names being swiped, their clients' domain names being hijacked, and now this. That's one price to pay for being arguably the most popular. :P I've since…

New Law Will Prevent Domain Registration of Another Living Person

• Comment posted Aug 09, 2007 8:09 am PDT — by Dave Zan
  Approved by Gov. Eliot Spitzer The same guy who UDRP'ed his namesakes? http://domains.adrforum.com/domains/decisions/919828.htm No wonder he was enthusiastic. Last I checked, Register.com and Misk.com listed their addresses at the big apple. I wonder if a move is in order.

CADNA Launches National Campaign Against Typosquatting

• Comment posted Jul 27, 2007 1:23 am PDT — by Dave Zan
  Tasting is a service to no-one but the greed and self-interest of criminals and those who facilitate them. I took advantage of my registrar's tasting service recently. I guess that makes me a greedy criminal when you know little to…

Squeegee Domains

• Comment posted Jul 06, 2007 3:24 am PDT — by Dave Zan
  That may well be the case in the domain speculators’ alternate reality. Uh...in this material world we all breathe, live and touch, what Snoopy said is realistically true nonetheless. What's so "alternate reality" about that? And when you said this:…

Opt-In Permission for Mailing Lists: Is It Enough?

• Comment posted Jun 28, 2007 9:29 am PDT — by Dave Zan
  Don't know if this means anything, but one thing a few internet marketers I know have observed is many of their spam complaints (despite proof of confirmed opt-in to their mailing lists) appear to be from AOL users. It'd be…

Squeegee Domains

• Comment posted Jun 28, 2007 9:18 am PDT — by Dave Zan
  It occurs to me that domain “monetizers’’ are the Internet’s squeegee men. If I make a minor typing error entering a domain name, they run up and offer to sell a link to the place I wanted to go (well,…

ICANN Says Registerfly Domains Moving to Another Registrar

• Comment posted May 30, 2007 4:42 am PDT — by Dave Zan
  Cat's finally out of the bag: http://www.circleid.com/posts/godaddy_management_registerfly_domains/ http://icann.org/announcements/announcement-29may07.htm ICANN's understanding is that GoDaddy.com and the gTLD registries holding RegisterFly names have worked out the mechanics for restoring, renewing, and redeeming names intending that no names will be inadvertently dropped. According…

UDRP Good for Trademark Protection, Not So Good for Political Process

• Comment posted May 24, 2007 2:03 am PDT — by Dave Zan
  On page 47, she calls a registrar a “cybersquatter” because she apparently can’t tell the difference between a registrant and a registrar in a whois record.  There’s a great start for a policy analyst. Heh, what else to expect from…

Researchers Explore Redesigning Internet Infrastructure from Scratch

• Comment posted Apr 14, 2007 1:10 am PDT — by Dave Zan
  While the technical challenges are there, it's the politics that's the real challenge.

Neiman Marcus Suing Companies for Domain Tasting

• Comment posted Mar 27, 2007 6:04 am PDT — by Dave Zan
  The 2 registrars are sued for trademark infringement, not domain tasting. But that's 2 down and a couple more to go.

If ICANN't Keep a Contract, Let the Public Enforce It

• Comment posted Mar 18, 2007 2:02 pm PDT — by Dave Zan
  I wonder how ICANN would feel if the DOC revoked their contract. :D

Protection of Personal Names in Domain Names

• Comment posted Feb 10, 2007 10:44 am PST — by Dave Zan
  How...entertaining. :) Well, looks like he prefers to be "principled" rather than pragmatic. I'll be darned if he loses this case.

Are Domain Name Registrars Free-Speech Friendly?

• Comment posted Feb 03, 2007 6:11 am PST — by Dave Zan
  If anything, people ought to become more responsible in making their choices. For as long as anyone can remember, some still keep choosing a registrar or a reseller mainly because of price. The kind of problems Mr. Fyodor and a…

China Loses 10,000 Domain Names in Earthquake

• Comment posted Jan 09, 2007 7:22 am PST — by Dave Zan
  http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2007-01/06/content_776083.htm Chinese Internet users lost about 10,000 dotcom (.com) domain names due to disruption caused by the quake, the Beijing News reported on Friday, quoting sources from the China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC), the country's authorized domain name registration…

Domain Tasting in the Spotlight

• Comment posted Dec 19, 2006 4:53 am PST — by Dave Zan
  http://www.icann.org/meetings/saopaulo/captioning-dnmarket-06dec06.htm AND WHAT TO DO ABOUT THIS? AT ONE OF OUR MOST RECENT MEETINGS, THE ALAC APPROVED REQUESTING AN ISSUES REPORT FROM THE ICANN STAFF. AND LET ME PUT THAT IN THE CONTEXT OF THE BYLAWS SO YOU CAN APPRECIATE…

CFIT's Atnti-Trust Complaint Against ICANN Dismissed Again

• Comment posted Dec 14, 2006 8:12 am PST — by Dave Zan
  Link to supposedly the actual decision for those interested: http://icann.org/legal/cfit-v-icann/order-on-cfit-08dec06.pdf

US Department of Commerce Approves VeriSign '.com' Contract

• Comment posted Dec 01, 2006 9:48 am PST — by Dave Zan
  Fact sheet: http://www.ntia.doc.gov/ntiahome/press/2006/icanncom_fact_113006.htm Details of agreement: http://www.ntia.doc.gov/ntiahome/domainname/agreements/amend30_11292006.pdf For those seeking material to read. :)

Do We Need Title Insurance for Domain Names?

• Comment posted Nov 29, 2006 7:18 am PST — by Dave Zan
  Chances are someone's already looking into this. But they're probably still working out the legalities and the market demand for such. OTOH, some big firms (e.g. ven-cap) have covered this possibility via their registrar acquisitions.

Microsoft Becomes an ICANN Accredited Registrar

• Comment posted Nov 08, 2006 8:39 am PST — by Dave Zan
  If Microsoft also aims to consolidate their customers' domain names from their MelbourneIT reseller account into their own registrar system, they need not look any further than domain registrar Registerfly's experiences with their former registrar partner Enom on how not…

Consensus Polling: ALAC Shows the Way

• Comment posted Oct 28, 2006 6:25 am PDT — by Dave Zan
  What works for ALAC will work for ICANN. Are you in? I'm not sure I can positively agree that "what works for ALAC will work for ICANN". But as long as it has strong chances to "improve" issues eventually affecting…

Your Whois Search May Be Monitored by Third Parties

• Comment posted Jul 23, 2006 11:06 pm PDT — by Dave Zan
  Unfortunately many internet users aren't "savvy" enough to know exactly how this works. But that's where education comes in. :) Let's do our part, guys. And do what we can.

New York Passing New Domain Name Law

• Comment posted May 24, 2006 11:17 pm PDT — by Dave Zan
  Spot on re: the implications. It's also likely due to who-knows-how-many complained of their personal name-domains being taken after being looked up for but not regged on the spot.

Ask Vint Cerf: The Road Ahead for Top-Level Domains

• Comment posted Jan 18, 2006 3:06 am PST — by Dave Zan
  Hi Vint, 1. When will actual domain registrants everywhere finally have a say? 2. When will the next ICANN board elections be "open"?

What's in a Name?

• Comment posted Jan 08, 2006 3:56 am PST — by Dave Zan
  That's ok, Brett. Incidentally it was a seasoned attorney who described the possible drawbacks to domain names being considred property, but it's reasonable to assume such things can happen if one gave it a lot of thought. One can only…

• Comment posted Jan 05, 2006 4:32 am PST — by Dave Zan
  2. Sex.com—it’s been a while, but didn’t that case settle the property issue, holding that domain ARE property in a legal sense? The original NSI was sued not to prove that domain names are property, but to hold them accountable…

Is a Domain Name Property?

• Comment posted Dec 23, 2005 2:57 pm PST — by Dave Zan
  As someone mentioned in a forum discussion about this, the door swings both ways. Whether domain names should be considered property or not, and whether it's good or bad, depends on what side you're on.

VeriSign-ICANN Proposed Settlement Discussed in Vancouver

• Comment posted Dec 01, 2005 7:29 am PST — by Dave Zan
  Correct me if I'm wrong, but VeriSign's contract to manage the .com Registry was extended up to 2012, isn't it? Call me naive, but why was it extended whereas they were "made" to bid for .net?

Lawsuits Filed Against ICANN-VeriSign Settlement

• Comment posted Dec 01, 2005 1:26 am PST — by Dave Zan
  Round 1 goes to ICANN: http://www.icann.org/announcements/announcement-30nov05.htm A US Federal Judge has ruled in ICANN's favor and denied an application for a Temporary Restraining Order (TRO) against ICANN sought by industry group CFIT in the US District Court, Northern District of…

• Comment posted Dec 01, 2005 1:15 am PST — by Dave Zan
  John K, thanks for examining and bringing up the list of directors. I recognize one of them: Howard Neu. Howard Neu is on the Board of Directors for WADND as well. He's one of the domain name industry's "seasoned" attorneys.…

• Comment posted Nov 30, 2005 9:14 am PST — by Dave Zan
  So, is this http://www.cfit.info/ organization the same or different from the http://wadnd.com/ organization that also announced today that they were suing ICANN? Rick Schwartz of WADND posted in 1 domain forum they're working closely with CFIT. Actually 2, but the…

WIPO Panel Splits on Descriptiveness of bocaresorts.com

• Comment posted Sep 22, 2005 11:34 pm PDT — by Dave Zan
  One common thing I noticed between this and the blacksingles.com UDRP is that both domains were used in a similar or related manner to what their respective complainants were doing. If this keeps up, are we beginning to see a…

Jerry Falwell Critic Can Keep Domain Name, Appeals Court Says

• Comment posted Sep 07, 2005 10:45 pm PDT — by Dave Zan
  This was "supposed" to be a "common sense" issue. Then again, even common sense isn't so common. It's a shame it had to come to this. But this latest ruling helps clarify things. Anyway, congratulations to you and the local…

Criticism of Trademark Owner Deemed Legitimate Interest under ICANN UDRP

• Comment posted Aug 24, 2005 10:23 pm PDT — by Dave Zan
  Simply put: no proof, no "case".

Morgan Freeman Wins Transfer of morganfreeman.com from Cybersquatter

• Comment posted May 11, 2005 4:46 pm PDT — by Dave Zan
  Unfortunately morganfreeman.com is now in redemption period. GKG was remiss somewhere…

ACPA Applies to Noncommercial Use of Domain Name

• Comment posted Apr 28, 2005 3:42 pm PDT — by Dave Zan
  True. Although it's "logical" if another TLD was used (.info, perhaps?), most people would assume .com nevertheless. Fancy reading your post, Dan. ;o)

Closer Look at Domain Name Transfer Policy and the Hijacking of Panix.com

• Comment posted Jan 20, 2005 2:37 pm PST — by Dave Zan
  One question I have about this is what was panix.com's WHOIS info prior to the hijack. Specifically, was it un/locked and its contact info changed before it happened?

Registrant Freedom Day

• Comment posted Jul 15, 2004 5:40 pm PDT — by Dave Zan
  Good news after a long time? Let's see! ;o)