ICANN66 Recap
Montreal in November is not as bad as it sounds; the weather is crisp and clear, the snow isn’t too deep yet, and it doesn’t get dark until a reasonable … Continue Reading
OpenSRS’ Tiered Access Directory: a Look at the Numbers
Tucows’ Tiered Access Compliance & Operations portal (which we commonly refer to as a “Tiered Access Directory” or “gated Whois”) launched at the end of May 2018. With its … Continue Reading
ICANN Updates: New Transfer Policy, RDAP, and Privacy and Proxy Service Accreditation
This is the third post in our series on the ICANN 63 conference that was held in Barcelona in October 2018. You can also take … Continue Reading
ICANN 63 Recap: “Unified Access” to Registration Data
This is the second post in our series on the ICANN 63 conference that was held in Barcelona in October 2018. Before diving in, we recommend taking a look … Continue Reading
ICANN 63 Recap: EPDP and Temp Spec Updates
TL;DR: Much of the ICANN 63 conference focused on the GDPR’s effects on our industry. We’ve recapped the EPDP team’s work, focusing on the possible policy outcomes that could most … Continue Reading
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