Domain Legend

Verizon was awarded $33.2 million judgement against OnlineNIC.
According to Verizon, OnlineNIC used 660+ domain names that
were in violation of Verizon’s TM.
OnlineNIC did not even appear in court to defend themselves.
Some people are already having problem renewing their domains
at OnlineNIC.
If you have domain names registered at OnlineNIC, you should
be concerned.
Will OnlineNIC become another RegisterFly story?
Source

I guess you know .TV has varied pricing structure.
Verisign can charge whatever it feel like for registration fee for .TV domain names. Some of top .TV domain names are being charged thousands of dollars per year for renewal fees.
Two years ago, ICANN and Verisign tried that once already two years ago. However, domainers rose up […]

Another Phishing attempt.
This time, it’s trying to look as if it’s coming from Enom using two domain names.
ssl74.biz
ssl78.biz
Both are registered at Network Solutions today.
========== Header info ==========
Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=”—-=_NextPart_000_0007_01C93BA3.F1404980″
Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2008 21:59:27 +0200 [03:59:27 PM EDT]
Delivery-date: Fri, 31 Oct 2008 15:59:26 -0400
Envelope-to: my email address here
From: eNom Team
MIME-Version: […]

Phishing attempt is going around disguised as if email is coming from NetworkSolutions.
Do NOT click any links in this email.
Email said…
1. Log in to Account Manager at: http://www.networksolutions.com
If you set your email client to just read text email, not html email, it will read…
1. Log in to Account Manager at: http://www.networksolutions.com.sys56biz.
If you right click the […]

If you ever get email with following message, do NOT reply.
Just delete it. If you reply, It will make matters worse.
Add worldswidedomainname.com into spam filter.
I started getting spams on Oct. 28th.
Here is first one.
Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2008 01:16:39 -0400 [10/28/2008 01:16:39 AM EDT]
From: Domain Name Support
To: info@worldswidedomainname.com
Subject: Notice Regarding Your DOMAIN NAME
Message […]

Followup for the “Duba¡.com sold for $1,650?“.
I just saw another similar, IDN, auction at sedo.
One was selling Duba¡.com, this one selling ¡TALY.COM
But, this look little different. I have no idea who put little difference there.
Is it sedo or seller who put that little “idn” mark?
Who ever did it, that’s good thing :-)

On Sedo.com, Oct., 19th, Duba¡.com sold for $1,650.00 Is it real?
Did winner of the auction got deal of the century?
Hardly!!!
Duba¡.com is NOT what it appear to be.

Kentucky Circuit Court Judge Thomas D. Wingate dismissed all arguments brought by the domains’ legal counsel in an attempt to have the seizure nullified. All affected domains, 141, have 30 days to implement blocking all traffics from Kentucky.
For now, these domains are just gambling domains, but, this case may as well be used for […]

On Tuesday, Oct. 7th, 2008, Tons of lawyers gathered at Franklin Circuit Courtroom. So much so, Honorable Judge Thomas Wingate said “”I’ve never seen so many lawyers together in one court room.” jokingly.
Governor Steve Beshear said “Illegal Internet gambling poses a unique threat to our Commonwealth,” “For individuals - particularly our youth - it is […]

Technorati said Blogging is growing at mind numbing speed. Everyday, 175,000 new blogs being created and bloggers update more than 1.6 million posts per day.
As these new bloggers get comfortable with blogging, what’s the next step for these bloggers? Yes, they will want domain name of their own for their blog eventually.
So, it’s no surprise […]