Friday, October 9th, 2009
You’ve heard of cybersquatting, right? It’s when you register a url, such as windows7.com and hope that at some point Microsoft ( NSDQ: MSFT ) looks up the “whois” data behind that URL and contacts you with an offer of a handsome fee in exchange for transferring rights of the URL to their web team. Domain name squatters suck, but Apple ( NSDQ: AAPL ) App Store squatters are worse. Say you’re a development house, like Atomic Antelope, and you’ve made an application called “Twitch” that you want t
Tags: Aapl, Antelope, Apple Store, Application Names, Contacts, Domain Name, Handsome Fee, Microsoft, Msft, Nsdq, People Names, Suck, Twitch, Whois Data
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Monday, September 28th, 2009
Group sends our RFP for whois abuse study. ICANN, through Generic Names Supporting Organization (GNSO), is seeking proposals from qualified companies to study whois abuse. One of its proposed mechanisms for studying abuse is to set up a number of test domain names to see what happens to the whois data created for them. A similar study (pdf) was conducted in 2007, but only to research whois harvesting for spam. In the new study, GNSO will also check for postal/phone solicitations, phishi
Tags: Domain Names, Generic Names, Icann, Mechanisms, Phone Solicitations, Proposals, Qualified Companies, Rfp, Spam, Study Group, Study Pdf, Supporting Organization, Test Domain, Whois Data
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