ICANN’s new transfer policy will impact your business and your customers
Domain transfers between registrars and registrants happen thousands of times every day. You would think that such an ubiquitous process works well, like a well-oiled machine. Unfortunately, ICANN and the … Continue Reading
Help save domain privacy
One of the benefits of being a reseller is that your registrar takes on the task of working within the domain name regulatory environment for you. Occasionally, however, pertinent issues … Continue Reading
Update on the registrant verification process
With the launch of registrant verification, we are continually making improvements to simplify and streamline this new ICANN requirement. We are introducing some new features and fixes to the registrant … Continue Reading
New ICANN Working Group Could Have Big Impact on WHOIS Privacy Services
As we have detailed in previous posts, the 2013 Registrar Accreditation Agreement (RAA), which is the formal contract between ICANN and registrars, contains a number of new provisions around selling … Continue Reading
Why your clients need to know about the Trademark Clearinghouse
You’ve heard us talk about new TLDs quite a bit in the recent past, and we promise that there’s even more to come. While the launch of the first new … Continue Reading
An Update on New TLDs
Earlier this year, we set up an informational page detailing our position and outlook on the topic of new TLDs. Since then, and particularly since the conclusion of ICANN’s 46th … Continue Reading
Verisign and the US Department of Commerce – Our Take
This morning, it was announced that Verisign and the US Department of Commerce had come to an agreement that allows Verisign to continue to operate the .com domain for another … Continue Reading
ICANN: Get Ready for the Next Big .Thing
Last week, ICANN published this video that does a good job providing an overview of generic top level domains (gTLD) and the introduction of new gTLDs:
Some of the … Continue Reading
Tucows Comments on ICANN Applicant Guidebook
The latest ICANN Applicant Guidebook was released in mid-April and covers the introduction of new generic Top Level Domains (gTLD).
The introduction of new gTLDs has been an ongoing conversation … Continue Reading
Registry Cost Increases for .BIZ and .ORG Domains coming April 1, 2011
It’s an unfortunate part of being a domain registrar that we have to let you know about price increases coming up as a result of announced increases by the registries … Continue Reading