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Domain News
ICANN Seeks Evaluators for the Support Applicant Review Panel (SARP) - Request for Expressions of Interest (EOI)
3 February 2012
Source: ICANN Announcements | 3 Feb 2012 | 8:40 pm

Public Comment: Interim Report Significantly Interested Parties
3 February 2012
Source: ICANN Announcements | 3 Feb 2012 | 12:30 pm

Pre-Costa Rica ICANN Policy Update Webinar Invitation
3 February 2012
Source: ICANN Announcements | 3 Feb 2012 | 11:30 am

ICANN board seat up for reelection
ICANN’s Address Supporting Organization has kicked off an election for one of its two official representatives on the ICANN board of directors. Director Ray Plzak sees his three-year term come to an end in June. He’s standing for reelection, but has competition from three other candidates. The ASO represents the oft-overlooked IP address side of [...] Related posts:

Source: DomainIncite - Domain Name News & Opinion | 3 Feb 2012 | 5:29 am

Verisign: our DNS was not hacked
Verisign today reiterated that the recently revealed 2010 security breaches on its corporate network did not affect its production domain name system services. In a statement, Verisign said: After a thorough analysis of the attacks, Verisign stated in 2011, and reaffirms, that we do not believe that the operational integrity of the Domain Name System [...] Related posts:

Source: DomainIncite - Domain Name News & Opinion | 3 Feb 2012 | 3:10 am

Occupy.com domain name sells
Domain has new owner but identity is unknown. Occupy.com, which was pitched for sale to the Occupy Movement last year, has sold. It’s not clear who purchased the domain name since its whois record is protected by whois privacy. But the buyer definitely wants to capitalize on the movement. It started a logo design contest [...]
Source: Domain Name Wire | 2 Feb 2012 | 8:01 pm

How Twitter was named and bought Twitter.com for $7,500
Biz Stone discusses the naming of his company. Today at DOMAINfest in Santa Monica, Twitter co-founder Biz Stone talked about how they named the company and bought the domain for $7,500. Stone and his co-founders wanted a name that showed “urgency”. They came up with Jitter, but thought that sounded negative. One of his partners [...]
Source: Domain Name Wire | 2 Feb 2012 | 2:47 pm

Tucows launches Ting mobile phone service
Tucows branches out, enters mobile phone business. Tucows, which owns one of the world’s largest domain registrars, officially launched mobile phone service Ting today. In a press release, Tucows CEO Elliot Noss said: “What people are forced to put up with from mobile service providers just doesn’t make sense. It’s too complicated, too opaque, too [...]
Source: Domain Name Wire | 2 Feb 2012 | 2:28 pm

New gTLD applications briefly vanish after glitch
A software glitch in ICANN’s TLD Application System was apparently to blame for a number of “disappearing” new generic top-level domain applications today. At about 4pm UTC today, two Neustar executives tweeted that some applications, among them the company’s own .neustar dot-brand application, had vanished from their TAS accounts. TAS is the web-based application, presented [...] Related posts:

Source: DomainIncite - Domain Name News & Opinion | 2 Feb 2012 | 2:03 pm

.sas could be the first contested dot-brand gTLD
Scandinavian Airlines System Group is to apply to ICANN for a generic top-level domain, .sas, in what could turn out to be the first example of a contested dot-brand. The company has agreed to explain its thinking during The Top Level, a conference happening in London later this month. The agenda for the meeting states [...] Related posts:

Source: DomainIncite - Domain Name News & Opinion | 2 Feb 2012 | 12:56 pm

.com passed 100 million mark in October
Verisign’s .com registry passed the 100 million domains under management milestone in October, the company’s monthly ICANN registry report revealed today. The exact number of domains under management in .com on October 31 was 100,540,971, having increased by a net 690,243 registrations over the course of the month. That’s a pretty big deal, but for [...] Related posts:

Source: DomainIncite - Domain Name News & Opinion | 2 Feb 2012 | 12:40 pm

James Brown estate doesn’t “feel good” after domain dispute
Godfather of Soul’s domain name can stay with management company. The estate of James Brown has lost a domain arbitration case for the domain name JamesBrown.com. The domain is owned by LAC Management, Inc., which manages “RJ & The James Brown Band”. LAC argued that James Brown gave at least his tacit consent for it [...]
Source: Domain Name Wire | 1 Feb 2012 | 5:35 pm

KeyDrive acquires Moniker and SnapNames
Oversee.net sells off domain marketplace, expiring domain, and registrar companies. KeyDrive, which owns domain name registrar Key-Systems as well as NameDrive, has acquired SnapNames and Moniker from Oversee.net. Combined, KeyDrive says it is now the sixth largest ICANN accredited registrar. Rumors about the acquisition have been swirling around DOMAINfest this week. KeyDrive has now updated [...]
Source: Domain Name Wire | 1 Feb 2012 | 12:15 pm

Public Comment: Inter-Registrar Transfer Policy Part B Policy Development Process - Recommendation 9, Part 2 Concerning a New Provision to Lock and Unlock Domain Names
23 January 2012
Source: ICANN Announcements | 23 Jan 2012 | 3:55 pm

Public Comment: .CAT WHOIS Proposed Changes
20 January 2012
Source: ICANN Announcements | 20 Jan 2012 | 3:25 pm