[EURO-Discuss] ICANN-related News Items
ICANN At Large Staff
staff at alac.icann.org
Thu Mar 8 15:35:54 EST 2007
I thought many of you would be interested in one or more of these
news snippets:
1. ICANN locks down at-risk Registerfly domains
ICANN planned to sue Registerfly.com on 6 March according to Computer
Business Review Online, “saying the company is putting its customers'
estimated 2 million domain names at risk.” The article notes “in an
unprecedented move, ICANN has persuaded the four major generic top-
level domain registries to lock down all Registerfly's customers'
domains for a month, so they cannot expire and then be hijacked by
speculators or domain traffic monetization firms.” With a letter to
Registerfly last Friday from ICANN noting “Registerfly is refusing to
hand over data about its customers' domains, as required by its
registrar accreditation agreement, and that it will enforce the
contract in court by filing suit on Tuesday.” The article also notes
that as ICANN has not been able to get its hands on the registration
data, they have got VeriSign, NeuStar and Afilias “to lock all
pending-expiration Registerfly domains into a ‘Server-Delete-
Prohibited’ status.”
http://www.cbronline.com/article_news.asp?guid=80D83445-B5D5-47BC-
B74D-D70EA124D72B
2. When Domain Names Bite Back
This story on The Motley Fool gives a background on the RegisterFly
“debacle” from an investor’s point of view, looking back as far as
the dot-com crash where VeriSign's Network Solutions and Register.com
were Wall Street darlings”. The article claims “Before the debacle at
Registerfly, the industry was coming back into favour” with investors
with GoDaddy looking at going public this year. The article concludes
“The Registerfly story may still have a happy ending, but the clock
on existing annual registrations keeps ticking. Whether the site
cleans up its act, is sold off to a rival registrar, or finds ICANN
in a more hands-on role, the industry's reputation is at stake. And
consumer faith is on the line. In the name of domains, let's hope
this nascent industry gets it right.”
http://www.fool.com/investing/general/2007/03/07/when-domain-names-
bite-back.aspx
3. Porn Industry Against New XXX Domain
The Free Speech Coalition released a news release petitioning for
help in opposing the .xxx TLD proposal. The Free Speech Coalition is
the adult entertainment industry’s professional organisation. Genelle
Belmas, professor of communications law, who argued in her
dissertation in favour of a xxx TLD says, “The side that does not
like pornography argues that if you give it its own domain you're
legitimizing the porn. And the pornographers don't like it because
they say it 'ghettoizes' the porn." The Executive Director of the FSC
is quoted as saying what the adult industry refers to as
"ghettoizing," is "making adult entertainment an easy target for anti-
industry extremists and government intrusion." Other concerns are the
cost of registering domain names ($60/year/domain) and that the TLD
could be made “mandatory and subject to trans-Internet filtering that
could effectively eliminate much of the adult content currently
available on the Web."
http://media.www.dailytitan.com/media/storage/paper861/news/
2007/03/06/News/Porn-Industry.Against.New.Xxx.Domain-2759677.shtml
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