February 2008 Archives
With all the talk about the depletion of IPv4 space and efforts to stretch the existing IP space out as much as possible it's nice to see that IANA have cleaned up their registry.
Leo Vegoda explains in a recent post on the ICANN blog how they've made it all a lot more transparent and less confusing to see who is actually in charge of a /8
Leo Vegoda explains in a recent post on the ICANN blog how they've made it all a lot more transparent and less confusing to see who is actually in charge of a /8
Eurid, the registry for .eu, has updated some of their backend systems while also tweaking some of their frontend interfaces.
The web based WHOIS has been slightly changed to further protect privacy.
The web based WHOIS has been slightly changed to further protect privacy.
As dotasia is currently in landrush you can expect to see plenty of special offers from the various registrars.
Eurodns, for example, are running a special which is quite attractive for the first two years. The only downside is that it's not that clear how the local presence will be charged thereafter ...
Eurodns, for example, are running a special which is quite attractive for the first two years. The only downside is that it's not that clear how the local presence will be charged thereafter ...
Adam has posted the results from the TRAFFIC West auction
There were some really nice domains on offer including dvds.com which went for $300k and porn.mobi which went under the hammer at $110k.
Some people weren't overly impressed by the results or how the auction was conducted.
I couldn't participate for one very simple reason - the software was Windows only!
Now I know I wouldn't have been paying out $300k for a domain name (simply because I don't have the money!) but I'm probably not the only person who would have liked to have been able to at least follow the action remotely ....
There were some really nice domains on offer including dvds.com which went for $300k and porn.mobi which went under the hammer at $110k.
Some people weren't overly impressed by the results or how the auction was conducted.
I couldn't participate for one very simple reason - the software was Windows only!
Now I know I wouldn't have been paying out $300k for a domain name (simply because I don't have the money!) but I'm probably not the only person who would have liked to have been able to at least follow the action remotely ....
I've always had mixed feelings about registries contacting registrants directly.
On one level it doesn't bother me in the least, but on another I can see how it causes confusion
Over the past couple of years we've been dealing with an ever-growing number of registries and seen a wide variety of policies and implementations, but the contact policy is one that always causes some headaches.
Over on the IEDR discussion forums the question has been raised by several IE resellers, while the question has raised its head on the Nominet discussion lists as well.
Nominet will contact the registrant if the registrar does not renew the domain. If the registrant opts to go directly with the registry they get charged £80 Sterling, which is significantly higher than what most registrars would charge.
IEDR has a very similar process, but the gap in pricing between the registry and many of its resellers / registrars is a lot closer.
If a domain was registered via a registrar but moves direct to the registry several issues arise:
What should the registry do?
What do registrants want?
On one level it doesn't bother me in the least, but on another I can see how it causes confusion
Over the past couple of years we've been dealing with an ever-growing number of registries and seen a wide variety of policies and implementations, but the contact policy is one that always causes some headaches.
Over on the IEDR discussion forums the question has been raised by several IE resellers, while the question has raised its head on the Nominet discussion lists as well.
Nominet will contact the registrant if the registrar does not renew the domain. If the registrant opts to go directly with the registry they get charged £80 Sterling, which is significantly higher than what most registrars would charge.
IEDR has a very similar process, but the gap in pricing between the registry and many of its resellers / registrars is a lot closer.
If a domain was registered via a registrar but moves direct to the registry several issues arise:
- The registry may be competing against its own registrars
- The registry does not offer ancillary services such as DNS, so what happens to them?
- Registrants maybe moving to the registry due to confusion
What should the registry do?
What do registrants want?
The ICANN meeting in New Delhi, India, came to a close yesterday.
According to the official press release 720 people were in attendance from 76 countries, including 290 from India.
Full details on the ICANN site
According to the official press release 720 people were in attendance from 76 countries, including 290 from India.
Full details on the ICANN site
Bret has done it again.
His blog posts may not be the longest, but boy are they incisive!
In one of his most recent posts he mentions a marketing mail he got from Network Solutions promoting business blogging. Nothing amazing there. But Network Solutions don't seem to have a blog, or if they do it's well hidden!
Simple test - try and find a blog on the Network Solutions site. I couldn't find anything either on the main page or the sitemap. Maybe it's hidden?
His blog posts may not be the longest, but boy are they incisive!
In one of his most recent posts he mentions a marketing mail he got from Network Solutions promoting business blogging. Nothing amazing there. But Network Solutions don't seem to have a blog, or if they do it's well hidden!
Simple test - try and find a blog on the Network Solutions site. I couldn't find anything either on the main page or the sitemap. Maybe it's hidden?
The former registrant of the domain champagne.ie probably doesn't feel like celebrating, as he lost the UDRP against him.
You can read the entire decision here on the WIPO site.
"Champagne" and related terms have been the subject of domain disputes in several constituencies over the last few years, with the champagne.co.uk decision still being appealed.
The decision is worth reading as it raises a few issues of questionable merit in particular in relation to rights and legitimate interests. While the panelist draws on previous WIPO decisions to guide him surely not all decisions can be seen as just?
The area where the respondent (the registrant) seems to have committed the fatal error was in trying to get too much money for the domain and asking for EUR19 thousand.
The panelist's comments on this are quite damning:
You can read the entire decision here on the WIPO site.
"Champagne" and related terms have been the subject of domain disputes in several constituencies over the last few years, with the champagne.co.uk decision still being appealed.
The decision is worth reading as it raises a few issues of questionable merit in particular in relation to rights and legitimate interests. While the panelist draws on previous WIPO decisions to guide him surely not all decisions can be seen as just?
The area where the respondent (the registrant) seems to have committed the fatal error was in trying to get too much money for the domain and asking for EUR19 thousand.
The panelist's comments on this are quite damning:
The Respondent offered the domain name in dispute to the Complainant for €19,000.00, stating that he was "aware of the high value of such a domain name and the current value of potential future earnings of his name." He subsequently reduced the price that he requested.Champagne won and the domain will be transferred to them shortly (it's still showing the original registrant's details)
The Respondent argues that he expended a significant sum of money in designing the website and registration fees. Even accepting the figures put forward by the Respondent the sums that he was asking greatly exceeded his outlays. Furthermore, the greater part of the outlays to which he refers relates to design and business costs and are not directly related to the registration of the domain name.
The Respondent has stated that the domain name in dispute is of great value to a wine merchant. That is without doubt the case, but in the present case the Respondent had no rights or legitimate interests in the domain name.
Even if one were to accept that the Respondent registered the domain name in good faith as he has argued, he subsequently used the domain name primarily for the purposes of selling or transferring the registration to the Complainant and the Complainant has submitted that the Respondent went as far as to threaten to sell the domain name to a competitor of the Complainant.
The use of the domain name as an address of a website on which competing wines and services not associated with the Protected Identifier have been offered amounts to use in bad faith.
The Complainant has therefore also established the third and final element required by paragraph 1.1 of the IEDR Policy and, subject to this Panel's finding in relation to the remedies requested, is entitled to succeed in its application.
The 31st international ICANN meeting opened in New Delhi, India earlier this morning.
There are quite a few "hot" topics that need to be discussed over the coming days, but whether any actual resolutions / decisions will be made is far from clear.
There are quite a few "hot" topics that need to be discussed over the coming days, but whether any actual resolutions / decisions will be made is far from clear.
Eurid's EPP service has been offline or unstable for most of today.
The explanation provided was that the maximum number of concurrent connections had been reached... So why did it take them most of the day to increase the number in the configuration?
The mind boggles!
The explanation provided was that the maximum number of concurrent connections had been reached... So why did it take them most of the day to increase the number in the configuration?
The mind boggles!
Nominet has put its EPP service live as of this morning.
Best of luck to them!
Best of luck to them!
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