ICANN Publishes Second Annual Report on WHOIS Improvements

ICANN: IDN Variant TLDs – LGR Procedure Implementation – Maximal Starting Repertoire Version 2 is Now Open for Public Comment

Purpose (Brief): ICANN is releasing for public comment version 2 of the Maximal Starting Repertoire (MSR-2). This upwardly compatible version of the MSR adds six additional scripts to the repertoire.

 

The MSR is the first deliverable under the “Procedure to Develop and Maintain Label Generation Rules ( LGR ) for the Root Zone With Respect to IDN Labels” [PDF, 772 KB] (the Procedure) and the starting point for the work by community based Generation Panels to develop their LGR proposals. The contents of MSR-2 and the detailed rationale behind its development are described in “Maximal Starting Repertoire – MSR-2-Overview and Rationale” [PDF, 1.12 MB]. Community members are invited to provide feedback on the contents of MSR-2.

Public Comment Box Link: https://www.icann.org/public-comments/msr-2014-12-15-en

This ICANN announcement was sourced from:
https://www.icann.org/news/announcement-3-2014-12-15-en

Sedo’s No Reserve Dot Com Auction Ends in Two Days! Only Four Bids So Far

Sedo is hosting these days the No Reserve Dot Com auction. The auction features 233 .com domain names and will end December 18,2014.

 

At the time of writing this artcile, only one domain name received bids :

Wiki.com     Current Bid  109 EUR
AlmostMagic.com   Current Bid   109 EUR
Pizza52.com    Current Bid   99 EUR
CallMyLawyer.com    Current Bid  99 EUR

Some ohter interesting domain names included in the auction are :

Wilki.com
INper.com
Sahku.com
Weidy.com
BusinessSchoolONline.com
Sharazan.com
Fontura.com
BioPuncture.com

Check out the entire inventory and place your bids here.

Public Comment Open on Initial Report from the GNSO’s PDP Working Group on Translation and Transliteration of Contact Information

The Working Group has published its Initial Report [PDF, 743 KB] that contains its discussion and put the arguments it has gathered to the community.

The report provides both detailed arguments in favor and opposing mandatory transformation and indicates that a majority of the Working Group currently recommends against mandatory transformation and/or transliteration of Contact Information. The Working Group hopes that community feedback will maximize its consensus level for the Final Report and, therefore, its members strongly encourage the Community to provide additional arguments in favor/opposing mandatory transformation of contact information data further to facilitate the WG’s consensus building process.
Dates:

Comment Period closes: 11 January 2015 23:59 UTC; Reply Period closes 1 February 2015 23:59 UTC
Public Comment Link:

https://www.icann.org/public-comments/transliteration-contact-initial-2014-12-16-en

This announcement was sourced from :

https://www.icann.org/news/announcement-2014-12-16-en

SWITCH Warns .CH Registrants To Beware Aggressive Tactics From Registrars

SWITCH, the .ch registry, is warning .ch domain registrants to beware of registrars aggressively touting for business now that SWITCH is getting out of the registrar business.

SWITCH say they have received an increasing number of reports from their clients recently that registrars and internet service providers are urging them to transfer their domain names immediately, in some cases using aggressive tactics. Clients are apparently being told that they might lose domain names that are not transferred.

SWITCH is advising registrants that are their clients they do not need to take any action whatsoever until SWITCH contacts them in writing and asks for the transfer to be carried out.

SWITCH will write to clients at the earliest three months before their subscription ends prompting them to transfer their domain names to a registrar of their choosing. It will send the first such letters out from the middle of January 2015 for domain names expiring at the end of April. Letters for domain names expiring at the end of May will be sent out from mid-February, and so on. The final letters will be sent to clients in mid-December 2015 for domain names expiring at the end of March 2016.

Some registrars and internet service providers ask clients to enter their user name and password on their website or a printed form so that they can carry out the transfer immediately. Please be aware that doing so gives them complete control over your domain names. Anyone who has the user name and password can make all kinds of changes to a domain name.

SWITCH is advising their clients to wait until they prompt them and then carry out the transfer within the three-month period before the subscription expires.

For more information, SWITCH advises their customers to contact their customer service staff or consult their FAQ.