The next ICANN (34) public meeting has been announced – it will be held in Mexico city between 1st and 6th March 2009. The icann 34 meeting is now online with information on the host, the venue and the meeting. As a new member, Othello will be attending to have our say in how the domain industry moves forward …
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Aug 13 2007
Domain Name Scammers Strike Again – Now Called Loovar.Co.Uk
We’ve had a number of calls this week from clients regarding domain names and competitors “reserving” existing client domains in alternate extensions. The bunch behind the latest round of the age-old scam are Main Stream Tech who trade from : www.streamlineltd.co.uk www.mainstreamtech.co.uk www.loovar.co.uk and many others. They’ll claim their address is 23 Castalia Square Docklands London E14 3NR …
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Apr 13 2007
More RegFly Woes …
So things look like they are going from worse to downright abysmal for the many beleagured registerfly clients. What should have been a realtively painless excercise in admin contacts migrating domains away to a new supplier, with ICANN assistance if the RF systems failed, looks like an ever growing c*ck-up, with class action suits, domains getting deleted, …
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Mar 13 2007
And Register Flies off …
In a 2 week long madcap race against reality, registerfly has managed to change hands twice first back to the original registration company that started it second by US Federal courts handing control once more to K Medina – the man now (in)famous for spending his customers money not on the renewals they paid for, …
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Feb 13 2007
ICANN Says Nuclear Response Is Imminent
In the wake of the Registerfly.com fiasco ICANN anounced that they are going to use their powers and nuke RegFlys Accreditation. RegisterFly have 2 weeks to solve the customer complaints issues or face termination. ICANNs letter to them includes a comprehensive shopping list of complaints filed against Registerfly over the past two years and multiple failed attempts to …
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Aug 21 2006
.Ax ccTLD (Aland Islands) Becomes Operational
ICANN finally announced that the Aland Islands country code Top Level Domain (ccTLD) .ax has now become operational. The announcement follows formal approval of the new ccTLD by the ICANN Board on the 9/June/2006 and addition of the .ax domain to the root zone shortly afterwards. The Aland Islands is an autonomous province of Finland, representing a cluster of 6,500 islands located …
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Jan 31 2005
A New Registrar Is Born …
Google, the ubiquitous group running the Search Engine, shopping portal , news group archives and world famous gmail have today begun plans to break into the Domain Name Regisitration market. A quick visit to the IANA list of Registrars shows a new entry in the charts at number 895 domain pickers … 891-894 Unassigned 895 Google, Inc. 896-900 Unassigned How long until they …
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