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Cheapies.com Gets Another Breach Notice From ICANN

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It looks like there's a pattern emerging. Remember the 10 registrars that got breach notices last week? While some have "cured" the breach another one of the 10 has been sent a new breach in the last 24 hours. Cheapies.com was sent a new breach notice yesterday. You can download the letter here. This time round the issues are in relation to domain transfers and their … [Read more...] about Cheapies.com Gets Another Breach Notice From ICANN

Mat Bao Fix Some Of Their Compliance Issues

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Vietnamese registrar Mat Bao appears to have fixed *some* of their issues with ICANN's Compliance team: But if you scroll down the Compliance notices page you'll see that they're still not out of the woods: The earlier, and arguably more serious, breach still remains open. Assuming they don't ask for an extension they've got until January 17th to get their house … [Read more...] about Mat Bao Fix Some Of Their Compliance Issues

Vietnamese Registrar Mat Bao Has Two Breaches At Once

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Today's list of 10 registrars that received breach notices included Vietnamese registrar Mat Bao. What makes this quite interesting is that the company had already got a breach notice back in December. The original breach notice, which I wrote about back then, was in relation to them not complying with a number of obligations under the RAA. While those issues might be … [Read more...] about Vietnamese Registrar Mat Bao Has Two Breaches At Once

ICANN Compliance Sends Breach Notices To 10 Registrars

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ICANN's Compliance team has been busy.This evening they published 10 breach notices that had been sent to registrars. All of the registrars in question have ignored ICANN's notifications to them about the audit program. However several of them also owe ICANN accreditation fees as well. The registrars found to be in breach are: Korea Electronic Certification Authority, … [Read more...] about ICANN Compliance Sends Breach Notices To 10 Registrars

.Cat Registry Whois Now Respects EU Privacy Laws

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The .cat domain registry has changed their whois policy and output so that it is compliant with Spanish and EU privacy laws. As of January 7th private individuals who register (and use) .cat domain names can opt to have their details removed from public whois. Law enforcement and other concerned parties can still gain access to the underlying whois data, but full public … [Read more...] about .Cat Registry Whois Now Respects EU Privacy Laws

Vietnamese Registrar Gets Slapped By ICANN Compliance

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Vietnamese registrar Mat Bao has been issued with a formal breach notice by ICANN Compliance. The registrar appears to be having pretty serious issues. They're not escrowing domain data to Iron Mountain (or anyone else)  even though they're a relatively new registrar and would have been obliged to do so as soon as they started registering domains. Add to that their … [Read more...] about Vietnamese Registrar Gets Slapped By ICANN Compliance

Right Of The Dot Partner With Escrow.com To Offer New TLD Private Auction Solution

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If you have a look at the new TLD applications you'll quickly see that there are quite a few in competition with each other. ICANN will be sorting out some form of "draw" to see who goes first and there's also going to be objections, string contention and government "advice". But one of the things that's been made clear for a very long time is that applicants would need … [Read more...] about Right Of The Dot Partner With Escrow.com To Offer New TLD Private Auction Solution

Fadi Chehadé Explains Brussels Meeting

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Philip Corwin from the Internet Commerce Association has published an email from Fadi Chehadé that explains this week's "secret" meeting in Brussels. Over the past week or so there had been rumours of a meeting being held in Brussels about the Trademark Clearing House. However it wasn't clear to many either who was organising the meeting, who had been invited or what the … [Read more...] about Fadi Chehadé Explains Brussels Meeting