The Proposed Renewal of the .Net Registry Agreement (RA) was published for public comment by ICANN on April 20th. The biggest surprise about the proposed contract is how little it differs from the current one between ICANN and Verisign. Conspicuously absent from the agreement is the new gTLD rights protection mechanism (RPM) of Uniform Rapid…
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ICANN: Pacific Governments to Enhance Better Participation in Internet Governance Discussions
Government delegates from sixteen Pacific countries recently attended a workshop aimed at overcoming barriers to participating in global Internet governance discussions, such as those taking place within the ICANN community. The two-day capacity development workshop, themed “Harnessing the Potential of the Pacific GAC Representatives for Better Participation in ICANN,” took place on 28-29 April 2017…
What do you have for sale ? $1,500 max
With this post tell everyone what you got for $1,500 max, I know it’s not a lot and no one should expect anything premium. Just a fun way to sell on the weekend, sell a name and go out to dinner and a movie this weekend. The post should consist of only three elements: Name…
The downside to losing a UDRP
Companies and organizations have to think real hard before filing a UDRP. They need to weigh the cost of losing and seeing a name become unobtainable versus just buying the name from the get go. If you get an experienced domain investor angry you are going to get a price adjustment that will be pretty…
Is Startup sentiment changing with regards to .com ?
There was an interesting article by Christopher Steiner on Forbes. The article titled, “Most Startups Still Believe They Need A Dot-Com Domain, But That Is Changing.” Steiner seems to be a bit all over the place with both data supporting securing a non com and some reasons why to stick with .com. He also seems…