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The thread on WHOIS blocking does not surprise me. But the problem lies rather deeper than the failure of ICANN to enforce publication, indeed it is difficult to see how WHOIS publication requirements could now be enforced after a decade of failing to enforce them.

Although we only became ICANN accredited a few short months ago we found ourselves signing up to the new contract with ICANN during the meeting in Sydney. The new contract (RAA) is the first major revision of the contract since it first came into being a decade ago. The new contract gives domain holders greater protection and certainty when they register domain names. In the picture above Dr Paul Twomey (centre) surrounded by a group of ICANN registrars including ourselves (I'm the one

Company awarded divisional patent covering business of expired domains and domain monitoring. Expired domain name service Snapnames , a subsidiary of Oversee.net, has been awarded U.S. Patent number 7,472,160, covering a broad array of expired domain services. The patent is a divisional patent filing that continues several filings made by the company earlier this decade. Among the areas of invention covered include: Domain monitoring and acquisition - monitoring domain names for any changes

Marchex thinks “Local is the New Black”. Is it right? 2008 has been a hot year for geo domain names as internet advertising experts push local advertising as the next wave of internet advertising. Call it a coming out party: people have been successful with geo domains for over a decade but are finally getting recognition. Perhaps it’s fitting that local-centric domain name and advertising company Marchex (NASDAQ: MCHX) filed a trademark for the term “Local is the New Black” earlier this year

By Bill Sweetman I often write about the importance of managing your domain names and caution people about what could happen should they fail to do so. I recently witnessed a chilling example of this. Thankfully, this story has a happy ending. Erella Ganon is a Toronto-based artist whom I have known for over a decade. She also happens to be a friend of my wife. On Friday night, my wife asked me to look into something on behalf of Erella. A few days prior, Erella had lost ownership of her do