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Verisign To Dual Stack EPP Servers

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Verisign has been offering IPv6 connections to their EPP servers for the last year. However as of March 14th the Verisign registry backend will become dual stacked ie. the hostnames for IPv4 and IPv6 connections will be identical. While this may not impact that many registrars now, it will become more important over time, though it's not clear if any registrars are currently … [Read more...] about Verisign To Dual Stack EPP Servers

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

PIR’s New Year Message – .Org Price Increase Coming July

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PIR, the .org domain name registry, have announced a price increase in .org effective July 1st 2013. The new price will push .org to USD$8.25, which is higher than .com! That's a price increase of $0.55. Not exactly the New Year message a lot of people would have liked to receive.. As has been reported elsewhere, however, Verisign's new contract with ICANN does not … [Read more...] about PIR’s New Year Message – .Org Price Increase Coming July

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

Transparency Fail – Nominet’s Registrar Meeting On Direct UK

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Today Nominet held their annual registrar conference. Unlike other year's there was only one topic on the agenda: The Direct UK Consultation. I wrote about my issues with the proposal a while back and Edwin Hayward has collected pretty much all references to it in both blogs and mainstream media here. While I was not able to attend in person I was trying to follow the … [Read more...] about Transparency Fail – Nominet’s Registrar Meeting On Direct UK

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