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Yesterday
German company tries reverse hijacking domain from Tucows
Complainant omitted key parts of pre-dispute correspondence in its filing. A German building products company has been found (pdf) to have tried reverse hijacking a domain name. Otto Lehmann GmbH filed a dispute against the domain lehmann.com. The domain is registered to Tucows a
IONOS announces layoffs
Major domain and hosting company to trim workforce by over 10%. Domain name and hosting company IONOS (ETR: IOS) today announced plans to reduce its headcount. The company, one of Europe’s larger domain providers with customers worldwide, said it will shrink its workforce f
Beware fake domain sales posts on X
Spaceship’s founder called out a fake sales post on X this week. Earlier this week, a user on X posted about a big domain sale on Spaceship. “Tom Adams” claimed to have sold thread .pics for $87,000, and even showed the sales email to prove it: It was a shocking
Wednesday 9 September
Verisign changes drop time for .com and .net domains
Brew some coffee; the drop is going to start early. Drop catchers, start your engines…a bit earlier. Domain registry Verisign (NASDAQ: VRSN) is changing the time at which .com and .net domain names drop after pending delete. Previously, domains dropped in the evening UTC. E
French human resources consulting company attempts reverse domain name hijacking
Company goes after domain registered well before it adopted the matching brand name. NOOUS, SAS, a French human resources consulting company, has been found guilty of reverse domain name hijacking. The company filed a cybersquatting claim against the domain noous.com. Noous.com w
Thursday 27 August
GoDaddy updates appraisal system
Back on August 10 I mentioned that David Castello was told GoDaddy would be rolling out a new appraisal system. It now looks like it’s rolling out. David posted on X that... The post GoDaddy updates appraisal system appeared first on .
Radix Announces Radix Deux: 46 Primary Applications in ICANN’s Next gTLD Round
Radix announced their plans for the next round of new gtlds. 46 strings in total. They will be going after .agent where I think we will see a lot of competition. .Agi,... The post Radix Announces Radix Deux: 46 Primary Applications in ICANN’s Next gTLD Round appeared first on .
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