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Poetic justice? In addition to getting shot with his own weapon the crook was sentenced to 20 years in prison with the guy who hired him next in line.

.ORG domains may end up costing a lot more money if an ICANN proposal to allow unlimited increases passes. Time is running out for registrants to object.

The new weekly domain sales report is out at DNJournal.com. Highlights included the 17th six-figure (or higher) sale reported for far this year and the biggest non .com gTLD sale of 2019.

It’s not quite the dot.com boom, but Verisign’s share price has hit a key number. Verisign’s (NASDAQ: VRSN) stock price has eclipsed $200 per share for the first time since the dot com boom. Shares briefly traded for above $250 in March 2000 before the bubble burst. The company’s market cap is about $24 billion. […]
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Results continue to tick upward as company pushes for price increases. .Com registry Verisign (NASDAQ: VRSN) reported first quarter earnings yesterday afternoon. It generated $306 million revenue for the quarter and a 69.4% non-GAAP operating margin. The business created $187 million in operating cash flow. People registered 9.8 million .com and .net domain names in […]
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You won the auction! Or not. A glitch caused a GoDaddy auction bidder to think he’d won an auction, only to end up the runner up. The bidder sent a screenshot to Domain Name Wire showing that he’d won the auction for OrganicFlowers.com: But the bidder was in for a surprise. He wrote: Notice I […]
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Consider these eight safeguards to keep thieves away from your domain names. If you own domain names–particularly good names–you are at risk of having your valuable assets stolen from you. Thieves will try to compromise your domain registrar account (sometimes by first compromising your email account) and transfer the domains to another registrar. Sometimes they […]
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Company was “factually misleading” and committed “egregious overreaching”. Brooksburnett Investments Ltd, which sells clothing under the Incanto brand, has been found to have committed reverse domain name hijacking in a dispute over the domain Icanto.com. The company uses the domain name Incanto.eu. A three-person World Intellectual Property Organization panel did extra research to figure out […]
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Over 100 letters have been sent to ICANN opposing the proposed lifting of price caps in .org, after the Internet Commerce Association reached out to rally its supporters. This is an atypically large response to an ICANN public comment period, and there are four days left on the clock for more submissions to be made, […]Related posts:Verisign to keep price increase power under new .net contract US probing Verisign price hikes, .com contract may be extended Uniregistry to grandfather existing domains before big price increases

Latvian diplomat and former senior WIPO member Janis Karklins has been appointed chair of the ICANN working group that will decide whether to start making private Whois records available to trademark owners. Karklins’ appointment was approved by the GNSO Council last week. He beat a single rival applicant, New Zealand’s Chris LaHatte, the former ICANN […]Related posts:Crunch Whois privacy talks kick off Pritz quits Whois privacy group as work enters impossible second phase Council of Europe has Whois privacy concerns too