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Senegal Based Kheweul is Africa's Second Registrar
Senegal, a small West African country of nearly 12 million people has seen bold economic reforms in the last ten years. These have paid off with annual Gross Domestic Product growth of 5% annually. This has helped to spur a flowering Information Technology sector. Now, that IT sector can lets its [...]
GoDaddy Surprises Customers with Retroactive Refund
“Dear (Client Name)
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN®) recently agreed to reduce their Registrar Transaction Fee from $.25 to $.22. What does this mean for you?
Good news. You have been credited $.03/yr for each domain name you registered or renewed dating back to July 1, 2006* — $.03 has been placed into [...]
RegisterFly's Implosion Nears Its Bizarre End
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 [...]
Is ICANN The New USSR?
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 [...]
RegisterFly Ordered To Hand Over Registrant Data
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 [...]
F-Secure Calls on ICANN To Introduce .SAFE
Internet security company F-Secure has publicly called on ICANN to introduce a .safe, .sure or .bank top level domain (TDL) for the exclusive use of registered banks and other financial organizations.
The goal? To combat the threat of phishing, which continues on the rise:
Right now, customers have no good way of automatically being able to tell [...]
VeriSign Monopoly To Increase .Com and .Net Fees
VeriSign, the monopoly registry responsible for .com and .net domain names, announced that effective Oct. 15, 2007, registry fees for .com and .net domains will increase as follows:
.com domains: from $6.00 to $6.42 (+7%)
.net domains: from $3.50 to $3.85 (+10%)
The "registry fee" is the fee that domain registrars such as Network Solutions and [...]