ICANN Ombudsman upset about service from “the little guy” at Air Canada. ICANN Ombudsman Frank Fowlie is giving a whole new meaning to “sticking it to the man”. The “little man”, that is. At the same time, he has learned what it’s like to be on the losing...

A look back at February in the domain world. It’s over already? February is a short month, but it was still packed with interesting domain name news. Here are the top five stories on Domain Name Wire for the month, ranked by views. 1. GoDaddy Rated Best Domain Registrar (Again) – for ...

It’s another lazy(ish) Sunday, and here are some things I am thinking about today. Hope you have a great afternoon! Does anyone know of a tool/script that I can use to analyze names at Snapnames and Namejet? Specifically, I would like to load a list of names (10,000 or more) into the tool, an...

While at the recent Domainer Mardi Gras show all I wanted to see was the ladies dot com portfolios. Awesome conference, I’ll be back next year! Previous Comic Strip: Proud Irishman Changing To .ie ...

Registrants of existing .com domain names are well positioned for coming release of IDN TLDs. For years, domainers have been investing in Internationalized Domain Names (IDNs) that use non-Latin characters. But these have all been IDN at the second level only, as there currently aren’t any top lev...

One area of the IDN ccTLD Fast Track Process about which questions have arisen is community support for the IDN ccTLD and how such support can be demonstrated. I have provided some clarification here that I hope is helpful to present and future IDN ccTLD Fast Track participants. None of this informa...

This will be the first of a two-part article detailing insight into the past and the future of the internet. Before delving into what is to come in the not-so-distant future, I would like to offer some tech history for those unfamiliar with the creation of the internet. Following that I will be sha...

The Ottawa Citizen tells the story of Frank Fowlie, who is the first ombudsman for (ICANN), who lost a personal grievance of his own against Air Canada after an argument over an in-flight meal. Mr. Fowlie who job s to hear and investigate complaints about ICANN, was flying from Paris to Montreal las...

Bulgaria’s official Cyrillic domain name suffix is to be “.??” (BG). An application for registration has been submitted to the world body that regulates domain names. Parvan Rusinov, Deputy Minister of Transport, Communications and Information Technology (MTITC) has announced on Th...

Sedo?s product development team has recently unveiled the newest client driven updates to SedoSedo’s product development team has recently unveiled the newest client driven updates to Sedo.co.uk. Since we first introduced the updated Sedo website, we’ve been receiving and reviewing clien...

Sedo?s product development team has recently unveiled the newest client driven updates to SedoSedo’s product development team has recently unveiled the newest client driven updates to Sedo.co.uk. Since we first introduced the updated Sedo website, we’ve been receiving and reviewing clien...

Sedo?s product development team has recently unveiled the newest client driven updates to SedoSedo’s product development team has recently unveiled the newest client driven updates to Sedo.co.uk. Since we first introduced the updated Sedo website, we’ve been receiving and reviewing clien...

Sedo?s product development team has recently unveiled the newest client driven updates to SedoSedo’s product development team has recently unveiled the newest client driven updates to Sedo.co.uk. Since we first introduced the updated Sedo website, we’ve been receiving and reviewing clien...

Sedo?s product development team has recently unveiled the newest client driven updates to SedoSedo’s product development team has recently unveiled the newest client driven updates to Sedo.co.uk. Since we first introduced the updated Sedo website, we’ve been receiving and reviewing clien...

Sedo?s product development team has recently unveiled the newest client driven updates to SedoSedo’s product development team has recently unveiled the newest client driven updates to Sedo.co.uk. Since we first introduced the updated Sedo website, we’ve been receiving and reviewing clien...

Sedo?s product development team has recently unveiled the newest client driven updates to SedoSedo’s product development team has recently unveiled the newest client driven updates to Sedo.co.uk. Since we first introduced the updated Sedo website, we’ve been receiving and reviewing clien...

Sedo?s product development team has recently unveiled the newest client driven updates to SedoSedo’s product development team has recently unveiled the newest client driven updates to Sedo.co.uk. Since we first introduced the updated Sedo website, we’ve been receiving and reviewing clien...

Lawsuit over employee bidding scandal voluntarily dismissed by plaintiff. A lawsuit against Snapnames and parent company Oversee.net that was requesting class action status has been voluntarily dismissed. Steward Resmer, a SnapNames customer who lost $20 in an auction thanks to the “halvarez ...

Live Domain Auctioneers are launching another auction this Sunday, February, 28th @ 1:00 p.m. PST auctioning off 174 domain names to the highest bidder. Amongst the names being auctioned are the Read more »...

The following 51 domain names are expired and available to register at the time of writing this. As usual, all names are linked to the Godaddy buy screen for quick Read more »...

Sedo – the domain name aftermarket – is at it again. They have just announced on their recent sales page that the domain name Metal.com has sold for a whopping Read more »...

This morning, I was looking through some drops on Snapnames for the next couple of days. I was researching one of the names I thought was worth bidding on, and I saw that it was an expired domain name rather than a private seller’s auction. After some further research (including a Whois Histor...

Sedo posted the sale of Metal.com for $165,000 on their website yesterday. Whois history records show the previous owner as Wayne Lazarus of JZJ, LLC which has owned the domain name for at least the last 6+ years. Wayne may have owned the domain name longer, but whois history is only showing records...

ICM Registry notifies ICANN of its hopes and intentions. Fresh off an independent review victory over ICANN, .XXX top level domain name applicant ICM Registry is asking ICANN to get the show on the road. In a letter (pdf) to ICANN chairman of the board Peter Dengate-Thrush, ICM chairman Stuart Lawl...

On Monday Microsoft got a federal court in Alexandria, Va. to grant an order to deactivate hundreds of domain names that the company said were linked to botnet named Waledac. The court order was issued under seal, that means not made public and without any notice to the domain holders before the ord...