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In the world of domainers, it seems one name is on everyone’s lips. The RegisterFly debacle has all the aspects of a front-page scandal: sex, CEO spending excesses, a class action lawsuit and a $6,000 Chihuahua.
The company, founded in 2000, was managed by John Naruszewicz and Kevin Medina. From the outside, things were [...]

In a recent case before the Arbitration Center for .EU Disputes, Google failed to gain control of the disputed domain name Googles.EU. Google had instructed its Irish subsidiary to file the case, presumably to meet registry rules that require .EU domain owners to be located in the European Union. However, the Google trademark is owned [...]

In an interview with The Register, former publicly elected ICANN board member Karl Auerbach alleges that ICANN resembles the now defunct Soviet Union: The organization, he says, has set up a Soviet-style pseudo democracy, insulates itself from Internet users, and resembles a central bureaucracy that is working on the latest five-year plan.
Auerbach favors a free-for-all [...]

Schuylkill County in Pennsylvania (USA) is known as the Coal Region and the home to Yuengling, America's Oldest Brewery.
But this month the county made the news because two of its candidates for the position of Controller clashed in a domain dispute.
Democratic candidate Melinda Kantner filed a complaint with the election board alleging that her opponent, [...]

Following suit to the recently announced wholesale price increase for .com and .net domains, the wholesale fees for .info and .org domains are going up 2.5 percent in mid-October. The .info increase takes effect on Oct. 15, while .org prices will go up on Oct. 18. As for domain suffix popularity, .org and .info [...]

There can be only one IRS.
A few days ago, the US government agency responsible for tax collection and tax law enforcement reminded the public that its official website address is www.irs.gov - and not .com, .net or .org.
And the U.S. House of Representatives just passed a bill ("Taxpayer Protection Act") clarifying that existing law, which [...]

Troubled domain registrar RegisterFly has been ordered by a US Federal Court to hand over to ICANN current and accurate data for all of its domain names, and to immediately allow ICANN staff access to the company's records and books in order to perform an audit.
"We ask RegisterFly and its management to co-operate fully with [...]