January 2009 archive

120 New Domain Types – what are they all for ?

2009 will see an explosion of new gTLD’s appearing (or at least planned) after proposals under the new ICANN guidelines – ICANN New gTLD Program – relaxed a number of the constraints. First up already announced is .paris … a city with it’s own domain type … Expect hundreds if not thousands more sponsored gTLDs …

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GoDaddy Shuts Down “Dodgy Tactics” Division

Standard Tactics LLC, a hidden/shell company owned by registrar GoDaddy is set to close. After all the hypocrasy of Bob Parsons, CEO of GD, complaining about domain tasting and kiting, yet running his own domain tasting/cybersquatting company, GoDaddy have finally announced that their sub-company “Standard Tactics LLC” is closing, after numerous trademark infringement cases for cybersquatting. Whilst this can only be good …

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Astutium Assigned IANA No. 1471

As part of the preparation for the launch of Astutium ICANN Accredited Domain Registry we have been assigned our official IANA Registrar Number #1471

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The Spammers Choice – Top 3 Registrars Used By Junk Mailers Are …

All are located in China ! Xinnet Bei Gon Da Software BEIJING Networks Todaynic And joining the top 3, with guest appearances in the top 25 registrars of spamvertised domains and spammer friendly registrars are: Xiamen Ename (ENAME.CN) Beijing Innovative Linkage (DNS.COM.CN) OnlineNIC (CHINA-CHANNEL.COM) HiChina Web Solutions (NET.CN) BIZCN.COM Perhaps if the Great Firewall of China …

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