In a bid to “to protect the data collected in WHOIS”, ICANN last week sought a court ruling in a German court to “ensure the continued collection of all WHOIS data, so that such data remains available to parties demonstrating legitimate purpose to access it, consistent with the GDPR.” The “one-sided filing” in Bonn, Germany,…
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Bumper Week of 5 Six-Figure Sales
Crosswordpuzzles.com was the biggest sale of the week, but there were 4 others that made the six-figure mark in the Domain Name Journal chart of top reported sales for the week ending 22 April. Topping the six-figure quintuplets, crosswordpuzzles.com sold for $249,980, followed by presto.com ($150,000), emx.com ($120,000) and hosts.com ($100,000) ,all sold through Uniregistry,…
Top 10 Domains of June
Domain Name Discount Offer Final Price Buy Now Depending.ca 10% $3,000 Buy Now Ganjas.ca 10% $2,450 Buy Now Marijuanarecipes.ca 10% $2,000 Buy Now Lavishhomes.ca SOLD FindLoans.ca 10% $6,500 Buy Now SkiClub.ca 10% $10,000 Buy Now Loans.ca SOLD Bitcom.ca 10% $17,580 Buy Now LawHelp.ca 10% $18,000 Buy Now Softly.ca 10% $10,000 Buy…
ICANN Board Adopts the FY19 Operating Plan and Budget
On 30 May 2018, the Board of Directors of ICANN adopted ICANN‘s FY19 Operating Plan and Budget, and updates to the Five-Year Operating Plan. Under ICANN‘s post-IANA Stewardship Transition Bylaws, the Empowered Community has the faculty to review, consider, or reject these documents before they go into effect. ICANN‘s FY19 Operating Plan and Budget and…
DENIC Restricts Publicly Available Registrant Data Following GDPR Introduction
DENIC have introduced significant changes to the publicly available data available through Whois requests for .de domain names that will see registrant data drastically restricted and only available to law enforcement bodies as a result of the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) that came into effect on 25 May. The changes in data…