by G.Paris

Incident in Paris Highlights Domainer Attitudes

Domain Name News’ award winning Senior Entertainment Analyst G. is back again with a new story. This time G. reports back from the recent Paris Domainer Meeting.

The second I heard it my eyes closed while their lids popped clean open, alert and ready to pummel. This was the wrong thing to say in an already bad situation, in the worst part of Paris, no not Texas, Paris, France via the DomainerMeeting.

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For the past six or so months, Tech Vibes has been ranking Canadian startup companies by averaging their Alexa and Compete.com rankings.

Previously they were doing it on a city-by-city basis, but this month opted for the Canada Startup Index.

As a Canadian I see a lot of anecdotal evidence that .ca is gaining in popularity. It is becoming more and more common to see billboards, TV ads, hear radio ads, and other ad mediums mention a domain with .ca at the end.

But what is interesting is that the entire list is dominated by .COM. We have the random ‘.us’ at #9, but all others from #1 to #18 are purely ‘.com’

And for those that may argue that Compete and Alexa skew American-centric … we also have ComScore’s numbers for Canada. Only one out of the top 14 is a .ca.

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In an email sent to domain name registrars this evening, ICANN announced a new resolution approved by the ICANN board, effectively ending domain name tasting. Since the GNSO had previously sent their recommendation to the board in April, the vote came as no surprise to those in the domain community.   The new policy will charge the .20 cent ICANN fee on every domain registered, whether or not it is deleted within the 5 day Add Grace Period or not.

(Read more about the new fees and the impact after the jump)

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So how did Bido.com do with their one auction a day concept after their June 18th launch? The sales data follows after the break.

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Selected Sedo domain sales of the week up to June 30th are featured after the break.

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In an official statement posted on Slashdot.org Godaddy.com attorneys have stated that they found nothing improper with the bidding activities of Godaddy VP Adam Dicker at the companies TDNAM.com expiring domain name marketplace.  The official statement goes on to explain that in the future all Godaddy employees will be prohibited from participating in any future TDNAM auctions, sales and back ordering services.

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According to website Zone-H, a group of Turkish hackers hijacked ICANN and IANA domain names on Thursday morning. All of the domain names are registered at Register.com. The group took over control of the domain names, including icann.com, icann.net, iana.com and iana-servers.com. The DNS records were changed and redirected to the hackers site with the following message :

You think that you control the domains but you don’t! Everybody knows wrong. We control the domains including ICANN!

Don’t you believe us?

haha

(Lovable Turkish hackers group)

This is the second major group to have their domain names hijacked in the last 30 days.  Previously Comcast.net domain names were hijacked at Network Solutions. So much for “preserving and enhancing the operational stability, reliability, security, and global interoperability of the Internet” eh ?

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