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2017-05-14

ICANN New gTLDs' Domain Name Registrations Implode | NR 2017-05-14

News Review | ©2016 DomainMondo.com
Domain Mondo's weekly internet domain news review (NR 2017-05-14):

 Features •  1)  ICANN New gTLDs' Domain Name Registrations Implode, 2) .NET Registry Agreement, 3) Other ICANN news, 4) Names, Domains & Trademarks: INTA meeting May 20-24, 5) ICYMI, 6) Q1 2017 Earnings Season, 7) Most Popular.

1)  ICANN New gTLDs' Domain Name Registrations Implode:
UPDATE May 18, 2017: New gTLDs' Implosion Unabated--almost 2 million decrease in new gTLDs' domain name registrations April 13 - May 17, 2017
ICANN new gTLDs' Domain Name Registrations Implode (2017 graphic)
Review the data (via nTLDstats.com) showing the implosion began in mid-April (see Jan 2017 - present date chart above) and read this week's tweets of the week, all from @DomainKing:

[Editor's note: comments close 19 May 2017 23:59 UTC, on the Competition, Consumer Trust and Consumer Choice Review Team [CCT-RT] Draft Report of Recommendations for New gTLDs. I intend to submit a comment, however I am waiting to receive answers from ICANN to the questions I submitted (pdf)(embed below) on April 26, 2017, in advance of the quarterly ICANN stakeholder call on April 27.  At that time I was assured by ICANN staff that my questions would be answered offline "so we can be as thorough as possible to your many questions"]:

I'm still working on a title for my forthcoming comment to CCT-RT, possibilities:
  • ICANN's New gTLDs: A New Generation of Ransomware for Domain Name Registrants?
  • The Sordid History of ICANN & Its New gTLDs from Beckstrom-Thrush-Pritz (pdf) to Atallah & Chehade;
  • ICANN & Its New gTLDs: A Legal Racket or Consumer (registrant) Scam?
  • New gTLDs: A Dream Come True for Cybercriminals, Cybersquatters, Spammers, & ICANN?
  • ICANN's New gTLDs Program: Greed + Incompetence = Choice & Innovation?
If you have a suggestion, feel free to send it to me via Twitter @DomainMondo.

2) .NET Registry Agreement: Page 4 of my questions above concerns the proposed renewal of the .NET Registry Agreement (comments close May 30). Inexplicably, this past Friday evening thru Saturday morning, the open comments page had deleted the .NET Registry Agreement entry, and the ICANN webpage on the "Proposed Renewal of .NET Registry Agreement" was returning a "404"--
ICANN.org 404 page

3) Other ICANN news
ICANN Logo and Full Name
•  Agenda | Special Meeting of the ICANN Board, 18 May 2017:
  • Consent Agenda: 1) Approval of Minutes; 2) Initiating the Second Review of the Security and Stability Advisory Committee (SSAC)
  • Main Agenda: 1)Approval of the Global Amendment to the Base New gTLD Registry Agreement; 2) Release of Second-Level Country and Territory Names in New gTLDs; 3) AOB
  • Executive Session – Confidential

•   ICANN59 Community Webinar | ICANN.org: "ICANN will be holding an informational webinar on Tuesday, 16 May 2017, at 1600 UTC."

 •   The Fourth Middle East Domain Name System (DNS) Forum to Take Place in Cairo, Egypt | ICANN.org  22 and 23 May.

•   2016 Reconsideration Requests Status Update – 08 May 2017 | ICANN.org:08 May 2017:  reconsideration-requests-status-2016-08may17-en.pdf [138 KB]

4) Names, Domains & Trademarks
graphic ©2017 DomainMondo.com: "Names, Domains & Trademarks"

5) ICYMI Internet Domain News 
graphic ©2017 DomainMondo.com: "ICYMI Internet Domain News"

6) Q1 2017 Earnings Season
graphic ©2017 DomainMondo.com: "Q1 2017 Earnings Season | DomainMondo.com"
•  Q1 2017 results this coming week: Alibaba Group (NYSE: BABA), May 18 at 7:30 am EDT via DomainMondo.com.  This past week: Tucows $TCX and Rightside $NAME.

•  The Most Interesting Thing About the Buffett / Seides Bet | ritholtz.com: "Investing is extremely difficult, even for the best and brightest. Randomness plays a far greater role in our success or failure than we’re comfortable with. And most of the time it’s better to be lucky than good."

 7) Most popular posts (# of pageviews Sun-Sat) this past week on DomainMondo.com: 
  1. Q1 2017 Results LIVE Webcasts May 9: Rightside $NAME & Tucows $TCX
  2. News Review: Why New gTLDs Mistakes Don't Matter | NR 2017-05-07

-- John Poole, Editor, Domain Mondo 
[All "Editor's note" comments are the opinions of the above]

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2017-04-09

News Review | ICANN & Its New gTLDs: Pedophilia's Best New Friends?

News Review | ©2016 DomainMondo.com
Domain Mondo's weekly review of internet domain news:

 Features • 1) ICANN & Its New gTLDs: Pedophilia's Best New Friends? 2) Follow-ups to last week's News Review, 3) Names, Domains & Trademarks: Bogus Trademarks, Bad Faith Registrations, 4) ICYMI, 5) Most Popular.

1)  ICANN & Its New gTLDs: Pedophilia's Best New Friends?
Lack of safeguarding checks leaves children vulnerable to online abuse | kidscape.org.uk: ".... child sex offenders can purchase this [new gTLD] domain suffix [.KIDS]. CHIS is asking ICANN to take preventative measures in safeguarding website domains, and is also asking the government to put pressure on ICANN to address this oversight (other domain names, such as .PHARMACY or .INSURANCE are only distributed to those organisations passing a series of stringent tests to ensure they are fit and proper to act in these fields of work)."

ICANN Response: We Just Collect The Money--ICANN Clarifies its Position in Response to Purported Threats Posed by Children-Related New gTLDs | ICANN.org:"Recently, the Children’s Charities Coalition on Internet Safety raised concerns that new generic Top Level Domains (new gTLDs) may become new grounds for the functioning and distributing of child abuse content. ICANN wants to confirm its position ... For anything unlawful, we [ICANN] rely on courts and governmental regulatory authorities to police illegal activity ..."

Children's Charities' Coalition on Internet Safety (CHIS): ICANN – a huge disappointment and a worry | chis.org.uk.  Embedded below (highlighting added):  ICANN UK Letter (pdf) and ICANN UK Briefing (pdf).

UPDATE April 13, 2017: Internationally, CHIS principally works through the European NGO Alliance for Child Safety Online:
The Rules Governing General Top-Level Domains | Enacso.eu: "In recent years we have hold frequent exchanges with the Members of the Network and representatives of ICANN mainly focused on knowing whether and how the Child Safety is considered in new General Top-level Domains assignment and what are the rules governing the different processes.
The GAC’s Public Safety Working Group (PSWG) focuses on aspects of ICANN’s policies and procedures that implicate the safety of the public. eNACSO Advisor, Mr John Carr is member of the GAC PSWG for UK together with whom is working alongside to monitor the procedures for the assignment of gTlDs that could have an impact on children. To learn more see the correspondence below.
ICANN UK Letter (highlighting added):

UK Briefing (highlighting added):


2) Follow-ups to last week's News Review | Global Public Interest: Why ICANN Will Always Be A #FAIL:

3) Names, Domains & Trademarks:
  • Urban Homesteaders Win Cancellation of Bogus Trademarks | Electronic Frontier Foundation | EFF.org: “The words and phrases we use every day to describe basic activities should never be the exclusive property of a single person or business,” said EFF Legal Director Corynne McSherry. “It took six years, but we’re proud that this terrible trademark is off the books.” “You can’t trademark generic terms and force ordinary conversations off the Internet,” said Winston & Strawn attorney Jennifer Golinveaux. “We’re relieved that the urban homesteading community can continue sharing information about their important work without worrying about silly legal threats.” For the full opinion from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office: https://www.eff.org/document/opinion-cancelling-trademark. For more on this case go to eff.org.
  • ICANN, Registry operators and Registrars profit from Bad Faith Registrations: WIPO Domain Name Decision: D2017-0343: The Respondent registered the disputed domain name long after the Complainant established rights in its trademark and "the disputed domain name does not appear to resolve to an active website, the Complainant says that it constitutes a bad faith “passive holding” of the type falling within the principle established in Telstra Corporation Limited v. Nuclear Marshmallows, WIPO Case No. D2000-0003 (“the Telstra case”)."  (Editor's note: In these kinds of cases, the Registrant loses the domain name, but ICANN, registry operator, and registrar, all keep their fees. It's like punishing drug addicts but letting the drug dealers and their suppliers keep all their profits and go free to create more mayhem.)
  • Travelzoo sells fly.com domain name and discontinues search | Tnooz.com - Travelzoo paid $1.8 million for the domain name fly.com in 2009.

4) ICYMI: 10 Internet Domain News Quick Takes
  1. The IETF's Job Is Complete - Should It Now Scale Up, Down or Out? | circleid.com: ".... the Internet is in a period of rapid maturation and fundamental structural change. If the IETF wishes to remain relevant and not reviled, then it needs to adapt to an emerging and improved Industrial Internet or perish along with the Prototype Internet it has nurtured so well." 
  2. By dismantling domestic privacy laws, the US will lose control of the global internet | Opinion | TheGuardian.com: "... From the early 1980s onwards, centre-left movements on both sides of the Atlantic no longer discussed technology policy in terms of justice, fairness or inequality. Instead, they preferred to emulate their neoliberal opponents and frame choices – about technology policy, but also about many other domains – in terms of just one goal that rules supreme above all other: innovation. The problem with building a political programme on such flimsy economistic foundations is that it immediately opens the door to competing narratives of just what kind of policy produces more innovation ... Well, goodbye to all that: the era of the Americanised internet is over." (emphasis added) 
  3. Internet shutdowns in India: Why it is bad for Modi’s Digital India | IndianExpress.com: "Internet shutdowns in India have serious consequences, and it's not just about freedom of speech." 
  4. ‘.FEEDBACK’ fires salvo over PICDRP complaint; threatens to “de-accredit” MarkMonitor as a registrar | WorldTrademarkReview.com
  5. Net Neutrality: FCC Chairman tells trade groups of plans to update net neutrality rules created under Obama, wants to keep basic principles but move enforcement to FTC--Reuters.com. 
  6. Google says it has reduced fake Google Maps listings by 70% since 2015 | searchengineland.com: "Company cites machine learning and new business verification techniques as main reasons for the decline." 
  7. Two-thirds of EU travel websites mislead on prices: Commission | Reuters.com
  8. London Police Ink Shadowy Deal with Industry on Website Takedowns | Electronic Frontier Foundation | eff.org: The RogueBlock program is self-described as having been "highly encouraged and supported" by the U.S. Intellectual Property Enforcement Coordinator. Encouragement (and tacit pressure) from government is typical of these private enforcement arrangements, deals that EFF describes as Shadow Regulation. 
  9. “Dig once” bill could bring fiber Internet to much of the US | ArsTechnica.com
  10. Tech Companies Must Earn User Trust | Human Rights Watch | hrw.org. 

5) Most popular posts (# of pageviews Sun-Sat) this past week on DomainMondo.com: 
  1. News Review | Global Public Interest: Why ICANN Will Always Be A #FAIL
  2. Tech Review | Samsung All-in-One Android Smartphone Computer (video)

-- John Poole, Editor, Domain Mondo 

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2016-10-05

WikiLeaks.org Celebrates Its Domain Name Registration 10th Anniversary

WikiLeaks Top 10:

Video above published Oct 3, 2016 by WikiLeaks.org: "WikiLeaks has published 10 million documents over the last 10 years -- an average of 3,000 documents per day. What are the top 10? To support go to https://wikileaks.org/donate."

Tuesday’s anniversary party in Berlin commemorated the October 4, 2006, registration of its domain name wikileaks.org. WikiLeaks launched with its founder Julian Assange saying it would use encryption and a censorship-proof website to protect sources and publicize secret information, and it first caught the world's attention when it released manuals for prison guards at Guantanamo Bay.
WikiLeaks is often subjected to attacks, even by news organizations. “We believe in what we’re doing,” Julian Assange told Spiegel. “The attacks only make us stronger.”
Setting the record straight*:
1. Is WikiLeaks an “agent” of any government such as Russia? No.
2. Does WikiLeaks seek to play a partisan role in the US election? No.
3. Has anyone come to physical harm as a result of WikiLeaks publications? No.
4. Did WikiLeaks publish the details of millions of Turkish women voters? No.
5. Did WikiLeaks recently expose visitors to its website to malware? No.
6. Did WikiLeaks recently expose gay citizens of Saudi Arabia to increased danger? No.
7. Did the Democratic National Party break Payment Card Industry (PCI) requirements on credit card record keeping and state laws on social security number storage by holding credit card details and social security numbers as carelessly as they did? Yes.
*For details see: https://wikileaks.org/10years/WikiLeaks10yrsPressPack.pdf 


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2016-08-09

Rightside $NAME Q2 2016 Financial Results, LIVE Webcast Replay

Rightside (NASDAQ: NAME)  began publicly trading Aug 2014
after spin-off from Demand Media
Rightside Group, Ltd. (NASDAQ: NAME)
Principal domain: rightside.co
Investor Relations: investors.rightside.co

Conference call and audio LIVE webcast with investors and analysts will be held the same day, August 9, 2016, at 4:30 p.m. Eastern Time (1:30 p.m. Pacific Time):
Live conference call: (844) 413-1777 (domestic) or (716) 247-5761 (international)
Conference call replay available through August 14, 2016: (855) 859-2056 (domestic) or (404) 537-3406 (international)
Conference ID: 52421364
Live and archived webcast: http://www.rightside.market - Listen to webcast

Q2 2016:

Q2 2016 Revenue of $54.03M (+3.6% Y/Y) misses consensus estimate by $1.43M.

Second Quarter 2016 Financial Highlights
(Unless otherwise noted, all comparisons are relative to the fiscal second quarter 2015.)
  • Registrar services revenue increased to $44.2 million compared to $43.3 million.
  • Registry services revenue increased 52% to $2.9 million compared to $1.9 million.
  • Aftermarket and other revenue increased to $7.8 million compared to $7.5 million. 
  • Total revenue increased to $54.0 million compared to $52.2 million.
  • Net loss Q2 2016 was $2.5 million, compared to $5.7 million in Q2 2015.
  • Adjusted EBITDA increased to $2.3 million, compared to $779,000. 
  • Gain on other assets, net was $2.2 million representing the gain on withdrawals of its interest in gTLD applications and the sale of its non-core registrar credentials.
About Rightside
The company, with its affiliates, is a leading provider of domain name services, offering one of the industry's most comprehensive platforms for the discovery, registration, usage, and monetization of domain names. In addition to being a new gTLD registry operator, Rightside is home to some of the most admired brands in the industry, including Enom and Name.com. Headquartered in Kirkland, WA, Rightside has offices in North America, Europe, and Australia (source: Rightside.co).

Rightside $NAME presentation at the Canaccord Genuity Growth Conference on August 10, 2016: Taryn Naidu, CEO, and Chief Financial Officer, Tracy Knox, are scheduled to present at the Canaccord Genuity Growth Conference, at the InterContinental Boston in Boston, Massachusetts. Rightside's presentation is scheduled for Wednesday, August 10, 2016 at 8:30 a.m. Eastern time (5:30 a.m. Pacific time). The presentation will be available through a live audio webcast accessible from the Investors section of Rightside's website at http://www.rightside.market. An archived replay of the webcast will also be available for 90 days following the live presentation.

Chart: Rightside new gTLDs - new generic Top-Level Domains
Above: Rightside new gTLDs - new generic Top-Level Domains + .GAMES
Rightside has 544,266 domain names registered in its 39 launched new gTLDs according to Rightside Registry | Registry Breakdown | ntldstats.com, which makes it the 11th largest new gTLD registry operator with 2.35% market share.

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2015-12-11

XYZ's Gateway, Supplementary Registration Proxy Service for its gTLDs

Effective 10 Dec 2015 23:59 UTC, the proposed launch of supplementary registration proxy service for gTLDs operated by XYZ.COM LLC is OPEN for Public Comment until 19 Jan 2016 23:59 UTC:

From the ICANN website:

 "Purpose: This public comment period is to gather community input on the proposed amendments to .XYZ, .COLLEGE, .RENT, .THEATRE, .PROTECTION, and .SECURITY Registry Agreements to allow XYZ.COM LLC, the Registry Operator of these six TLDs, to offer a new registry service, which is a proxy service that will provide secondary gateway access toSRS/EPP, RDDS (via Whois – port 43 –, web-based Directory Service, RDAP, or any combination of the three), or both for the purposes of operating these TLDs in local domain name markets.

"These Registry Agreement amendments are intended to implement the proposed new registry service for XYZ, .COLLEGE, .RENT, .THEATRE, .PROTECTION, and .SECURITY TLDs, which was submitted and evaluated through the Registry Services Evaluation Policy (RSEP) process.

"Current Status: As required by the Registry Services Evaluation Policy (RSEP), ICANN has undertaken a preliminary determination on whether this RSEP proposal might raise significant competition, security or stability issues. ICANN's preliminary review (based on the information provided) did not identify any such issues.

"ICANN is seeking public comments on the proposed Registry Agreement amendments that will allow XYZ.COM LLC to implement a Supplementary Registration Proxy service for .XYZ, .COLLEGE, .RENT, .THEATRE, .PROTECTION, and .SECURITY TLDs."

 According to ICANN, "XYZ.COM LLC submitted an RSEP request to offer a similar service initially on 26 August 2015 and then on 9 October 2015, respectively, however the Registry Operator withdrew these requests to clarify the description of the service."


See also:
RSEP Webpage: https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/rsep-2014-02-19-en
RSEP Policy: https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/registries/rsep/policy-en
XYZ.COM LLC RSEP Request: https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/files/rsep-2014159-xyz-et-al-request-02dec15-en.pdf [PDF, 23 KB]

Although not mentioned by ICANN in its public comment notice, the purpose of the proposed service is to meet requirements of Chinese law, for domain name registrants, registrars, and the registry operator (XYZ) in China:
"4. Chinese Gateway. Subject to all of the terms of this Agreement, Registry Operator may offer to Chinese registrars an EPP gateway to be used by ICANN-accredited registrars located in China so that Registry Operator and the Chinese registrars may comply with applicable local Chinese laws." Source (pdf)

 

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