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 …
Category: Domains
Annoucements about Top Level Domains (TLDs)
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Jan 01 2009
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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Jan 01 2009
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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Nov 13 2008
Popping Out For A Mex ICANN …
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 18 2008
DC-Domains.com merged into Astutium
As part of our process to continually improve our products and services and extend the range of solutions availble, DC-Domains.com has merged into Astutium Ltd ! We have today completed our migration from the our dc-domains system into the new Client Portal and Domain Management systems which you can find at Astutium Client Portal The new …
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Jun 20 2008
UKDNR Scammers target .uk domain registrants
A ressurgence of an age-old domain name sales scam has started again, with scammers UKDNR (calling themselves “Domain Name Registrar”) are telephoning .uk and .com registrants, with a high-pressure sales tactic based on the false claim that someone is attempting to register domain names similar to yours, then offering to register them ahead of this …
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Jan 22 2008
The ISPs and the Musical Chairs – Mergers and Acquisitions Roundup
Its been a busy time in the ISP/Registrar/Host M&A world, with providers vanishing almost on a daily basis.Some of the more notable M&As included: 2007 December Spanish Registrar Arsys sold to The Carlyle Group and Mercapital private equity~£120,000,000 outright purchase. 550,000 registered domains, 170,000 customers, 250 employees WebHost Automation Ltd (WHA) authors of HELM Windows …
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Oct 13 2007
All Change At .Mobi
The founder of dotMobi – the company behind the first mTLD (mobile TLD) – stepped down last week, to spend time with his family. Neil Edwards returns back to the US from Dublin where .mobi was based to pursue other projects, having successfully taken the idea behind a non-geographic domain extension from concept through launch. Despite …
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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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