Domain Diary

Well, this should be the first one. Domaindiary.net is registered today at Moniker (more about my impressions about this company - good or otherwise - a little later) …

If you’re into domaining, you must be aware of Monte Cahn and one of his companies - Moniker. They position themselves as “The Most Secure and Customer Service Driven Domain Name Registrar in the World!”. According to some fellow domainers (including Dave Zan, one of the biggest authorities in the field), Moniker has to be THE best and really most secure registrar out there. However, I would like to give you my personal impressions and experiences so far, while dealing with them. The full chronology:

2006 02 05. Wrote an email to sales [AT] moniker [DOT] com asking for the special pricing. Their standart USD18.99 pricing scheme wasn’t appealing for me at all. Asked for the level 3 (USD12.95 new registrations, USD10.99 transfers and renewals) pricing. No answer for a week.

According to: Domain Name Wire :
Opposition to the proposed VeriSign agreement with ICANN is growing. A number of registrars released formal opposition remarks yesterday.

Results from …

I promised to myself not to use GoDaddy anymore, however I couldn’t resist to register 5 domains, using (and abusing) buy.com free GoDaddy coupons, available from: http://www.buy.com/retail/coupon.asp?prid=82517432&adid=17662

Have got …

As per http://www.hostreview.com/news/news/060216SHININGMONKEY.html
Shining Monkey Inc., manufacturer of premium car care products was a victim of a widely reported domain name cyber squatting attack. The incident, which took place between 4:30 AM ET and 7:45 AM ET on Sunday, February 5th, was caused by a sophisticated, large-scale attack on domain names across the Internet. As a result, Shining Monkey’s popular www.shiningmonkey.com domain name was stolen. A large-scale dispute that includes numerous companies has been filed with government officials. In the meantime, Shining Monkey will operate under the domain name, www.shiningmonkey.net.

I think it’s the highest time for me to point out some funny issues RegisterFly is having since their movement from being eNom reseller to their own system. I’ve posted …

Heck, I wish it was me who took this interview… VERY nice and good reading!
http://www.domainingblog.com/2006/02/qa-with-one-of-worlds-most-prolific.html

Pre-registrations: http://google.com/hosted

Very good article about quality traffic in DailyIndia.com:
http://www.dailyindia.com/show/3923.php

Just came by: http://ie7.com  and was quite suprised, to say the least. Go, Firefox!!!

Domain was created back in 1999, so probably does not violate anyone’s rights:

Registrant:
Digital Dataflow Ltd.
Basement …

It was very long week for everyone in the internet community. Still, the deal between ICANN and Verisign about .com namespace is uncertain:

http://www.internetnews.com/bus-news/print.php/3587281
The future of the Internet quite literally hangs in the air.

ICANN board members met this week about the revised deal with VeriSign for control of the .com registry.

The revised deal would end all pending litigation between ICANN and VeriSign, as well as allow VeriSign to raise domain prices and continue to manage the registry for “near perpetuity.”

The official announcement:
Grassroots.org, a provider of free Internet and legal services to nonprofit organizations, today announced its offering of a free domain name to US and Canadian’s new …

Yesterday, Bob Parsons (GoDaddy’s owner and CEO) put one more entry to his web blog: http://www.bobparsons.com/VeriSignRespongs.html. The thing is that he lied to the community once more, writing in …