» German Wikileaks Domain Suspended Without Warning

Germany has gone one step further in impeding access to Wikileaks. Germany's registration authority, DENIC, recently suspended Wikileaks.de without notice. "The action comes two weeks after the house of the German WikiLeaks domain sponsor, Theodor Reppe, was searched by German authorities. Police documentation shows that the March 24, 2009 raid was triggered by WikiLeaks' publication of Australia's proposed secret internet censorship list. The Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) told Australian journalists that they did not request the intervention of the German government."

» ICANN ends its contract with Parava Network

On 27 February 2009,ICANN sent Parava Networks,a notice based on Parava Networks failure to escrow gTLD registration data. They also said they didn't investigate and correct claimed whois inaccuracies and most of all they failed to pay the acreditation fees.Although Parava Networks it's a domain name registrar which manages valuable domain names,the inevitable is bound to happen.Therefore they have been given fifteen days until this termination will be effective. In a termination notice sent to Parava,ICANN sais that to facilitate a smooth transition of the estimated 36 000 domain names  currently managed by Parava Networks,they will follow its de-accredited registrar...

» Physicians.com sold for $250.000 & hot water rises around ICANN's plan to flood web with ...

There's a rumour that Physicians.com was sold for $250,000 earlier this week.That was confirmed this morning by the buyer Richard Gabriel. Gabriel was also on the other side of one of the year's biggest deals last month. He was the seller of Auction.com, a domain purchased by REDC for $1.7 million. That is the third biggest sale reported so far in 2009. Opposition to ICANN's plan to flood the Internet with an unlimited number of new gTLDs continues to build. Yesterday, the International Olympic Committee put ICANN on notice, stating that the IOC is reserving the right to “take action against ICANN for damages resulting to the IOC or the Olympic Movement from the...

» Silicon Labs wins its name back in arbitration

Silicon Labs,a billion dollar company has lost control of a key domain name,Siliconlabs.com. So,the company has filled for arbitration with National Arbitration Forum to get back its name.Having been established all three elements required under the ICANN Policy ,the Panel concluded that relief shall be granted. Obviously things should have been much easier by renewing the domain for $10.Instead the amount spent on renewing the domain was much higher.They spent about $1300 to National Arbitration Panel and legal fees were about $ 5000.,not to mention about the loss of the highly trafficked domain name for two months.

» Bad decision regarding SmoothMove.com

Michael Berkens registered the domain name SmoothMove.com in 2003. It's not a doubt that the term smooth move is certainly a commonly used term in the English language.The problems started when a herbal medicine company,Traditional Medicinals Inc,happened to have a trademark to "Smooth Move". Moreover,surprisingly,this is not the only generic domain name the herbal medicine company tried to grab.They have already lost a case for MothersMilk.com . The decision of the Uniform Domain-Name Dispute-Resolution Policy (UDRP) was that smmothmove.com has to be transffered to Traditional Medicinals Inc. Ari Goldberger,Berken's attorney,said about all this :"The...