What Law Enforcement Would Like To Have You Do To Register A Domain

Michele Neylon, who runs Irish domain registrar Blacknight, just posted a blog entry about what he thinks the changes would mean for domain registrants.

The title is spot on: Don’t Make Us Treat Our Customers Like Criminals!

Neylon is well versed in ICANN and the current negotiations over the contract for domain registrars. He understands the nuance of every proposal out there. So it’s worth reading his take.

He also had recent experience partnering up with Google to give small businesses in Ireland a free web site. Most shied away from Ireland’s .ie domains since they had to jump through more hoops to register them — which is exactly what law enforcement wants to require of all domain registrants.

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Sony Registers Domains for Vita Version of PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale

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Broward County Loses UDRP To Gain Generic Domains: Fortlauderdaleconvention.com, Ftlauderdaleconvention.com

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China Opens .CN For Registration Again

China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC) just announced that they have revised the rules on .cn domain name registrations. So as of today according to the latest amendment and enforcement announcement: “any individual or organization that can bear independently civil liabilities, has the right to apply for the domain registration under the implementing rules.”

According to Verisign’s latest industry brief, the .cn country code domain is currently the 7th largest ccTLD in the world. As of this writing, there are a little over 3.3 million active registrations which include .com.cn, .net.cn, .org.cn, .gov.cn, .ac.cn, .edu.cn, and chinese idn’s.

DNCL Proposes .NZ Domain Space Extension

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Apple Registers iPhone5.com Domain Name

Apple registers iPhone5.com domain name - The Samsung Galaxy S3 might be the most anticipated of all Android-powered phones for this year, but it will have a stiff competitor “on the job” so to speak, and that would be none other than the next generation iPhone from Apple. While we are still up in arms over the naming convention, as many were thrown off the trail with the new iPad’s name instead what many expected to see – the iPad 3. Well, word has it that Apple has just registered the iPhone5.com domain name, with Bloomberg citing a source ‘with knowledge of the plans’ that points toward the inevitable release of the iPhone 5 in due time, which has also seen its fair share of input and involvement from the late Steve Jobs.