Francois closes down Lend.me, relocates Valuate.com – plus membership discounts Posted by DomainGang on April 3, 2017, at 12:59 pm Francois Carrillo French domain entrepreneur, Francois Carrillo, announced some news today, about changes to his domain-related projects. Valuate, an automated domain valuation system, will be relocating its functions to Domaining.com/valuate. The domain Valuate.com is now…
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Too little, too late: Uniregistry will offer price protection on 9 domain extensions
Uniregistry issued a press release today that was pretty difficult to understand until you reached the end of it. And even then it is pretty cryptic. In essence they mumbled that grandfathering existing registrations was “technically difficult and confusing for customers”. Registrars complained about different premium models being hard to implement back in 2014 but…
UK Child Protection Agency Finds 5 TLDs Account For 80% of Child Porn
Five top level domains accounted for 80% of all webpages identified as containing child sexual abuse images and videos, according to the 2016 annual report from the UK’s online reporting hotline for child sexual abuse, the Internet Watch Foundation, released today, with 57,335 URLs containing child sexual abuse imagery and these were hosted on 2,416…
ICANN: Proposed Fundamentals Bylaws Changes to Move the Board Governance Committee’s Reconsideration Process Responsibilities to Another Board Committee
Brief Overview ICANN is posting for public comment proposed Fundamental Bylaws revisions that would move the Board Governance Committee’s (BGC) responsibilities for the Reconsideration process as set forth under Article 4, Section 4.2 of the Bylaws to the Board Accountability Mechanisms Committee (BAMC). No other changes to the Reconsideration process are proposed or anticipated as…
.ORG Domain Tops Chart in Week With No 6-Figure Sales
There was only one domain name sale above $20,000 in a quiet week for big sales, and that allowed a non-.com domain name to top the weekly chart, with riseup.org topping the chart in a $75,000 sale brokered by DomainMarket/Uniregistry Market. For the week ending 19 March, caps.co.uk came in second and fenius.com third, selling…