Domain Diary

An official announcement from ICANN:
Marina del Rey, California, 28 February 2006: Today, ICANN’s Board of Directors approved, by a majority vote, a set of agreements settling a long time dispute between ICANN and VeriSign, the registry operator for the .COM registry.

These settlement documents include a new registry agreement relating to the operation of the .COM registry. The new .COM registry agreement will now proceed to the U.S. Department of Commerce for final approval, and the entire settlement is dependent upon this approval before it is finalized. USDOC approval is required due to the unique history of the .COM generic top-level domain and it is the only gTLD which requires such approval. If approved, this settlement will clear the way for a new and productive relationship between ICANN and VeriSign facilitating ICANN’s stewardship and technical coordination of the Internet’s domain name system.

I was continuosly explaining to people on the various boards about how GoDaddy’s transfer policy differs from ICANN’s Policy on Transfer of Registrations between Registrars. GD put the following restrictions in their domain transfer policy:
Go Daddy may elect to accept or reject your domain name transfer application for any reason at its sole discretion. Rejections may include, but are not limited to: The current Registrar rejected the transfer. The original registration took place less than sixty (60) days prior to the transfer request. The domain name has been placed in a locked status by either the Registry or by the losing registrar. The domain was transferred to Go Daddy less than sixty (60) days prior to the transfer request. The domain name expired but was not renewed. The domain name expired and was renewed during the forty-five (45) day grace period, and the forty-five (45) day grace period has not yet passed. The Domain Name Registrant was changed less than sixty (60) days prior to the transfer request. Any pending bankruptcy of the current domain name holder. Any dispute over the identity of the domain name holder. Any situation described in the Dispute Policy. Transfer orders over thirty (30) days old.

Wow, and I thought the SAGA was over… It doesn’t look so:
Just …

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Yesterday, while browsing dnjournal, I’ve learned that Moniker is keeping Rick Schwartz’s portfolio. Rick is famous, almost legendary, among fellow domainers for his early …

According to tophosts.com :

Last November, iPowerWeb shocked the domain industry by cutting their domain name prices to a record-low $2.95, making them the cheapest in the world.
Examining their …

Well, I just became aware that Mr. Parsons answered my personal comment on his blog. The quality of the answer is beyond any criticism, to say the least. …

Some really entertaining reading here:

According to domain registry NetNames, Volkswagen, Ralph Lauren and Nestle have all laid claim for polo.eu. …

According to The Age:
Two US senators on Thursday proposed legislation that would establish a new “.XXX” domain for racy or sexually explicit websites.

The bill proposed by senators Mark …

Domaining made through to the mainsteam press again. Vancouver Sun published a story 6 days ago (sorry to report this too late).

Read it here.

According to Hostreview:
Noting that the Department of Commerce has given little evidence of ICANN oversight with regards to the VeriSign vs. ICANN settlement, Congressman Robert Wexler (D-FL) on …

As per Wired.com:

Cybersquatting the domain name of a celebrity and selling it for a king’s ransom was one of the great get-rich-quick schemes of the early internet. But since …