Domain Name News

NameMedia purchases SplitCoastStampers Community Site

Posted: 20 Jul 2008 11:42 PM CDT

According to a post on the site, NameMedia has purchased Splitcoststampers, a community for “stampers”. The site joins NameMedia’s list of enthusiast communities, which consists of the following sites: Dave’s Garden, Photo.net, geek.com, mommy.com, Cats.com, Photography.com, Tarot.com, Basejumper.com, Biking.com, , Yachting.com, DreamWheels.com, Hotcars.com, DropZone.com, Gardens.com, Cycling.com, Rockclimbing.com, Craftster.org and TheTruthAboutCars.com.

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ICANN approves new .INFO policy

Posted: 20 Jul 2008 04:37 PM CDT

As reported earlier, Afilias had submitted a proposal to ICANN for the .INFO gTLD that would allow them to shut down domain names at will if they consider them abusive. ICANN has approved the proposal without soliciting comments, however comments to any registry proposal can be submitted at any time by sending an email to registryservice (at) icann.org and are published on the ICANN website.

Apparently Afilias has presented the changes to their agreement as a “new” service. However this function is provided by Registrars, ISPs and Hosting companies today. Several parties have submitted their concerns about this new policy, despite some small modifycations by the registrar operator.

[Thanks to George Kirikos]

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