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DomainTools appeals injunction decision in .NZ case
Cyber security service wants injunction thrown out. Whois data and security service DomainTools has appealed a preliminary injunction brought against it by .NZ registry Domain Name Commission Limited...
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How a Whois check could have halted a scam
Victims failed to notice the registration date of the domain name used to initiate the scam. Note the recent creation date on this domain used in a scam. A Wendi Deng Murdoch imposter tricked...
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Domain Name Rewind: domains in January
CNBC’s The Profit, Prince settlement and great domain investor data were top stories last month. The top story on DNW last month was a domain name lesson on The Profit. Here are the top five stories on...
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Rights, privacy, and public information as it relates to Whois. As the internet community debates Whois and privacy this week in Kobe, Japan, I’d like to revisit my thoughts on the subject. I am not in...
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.NZ domain manager sues Whois API
Company goes after another Whois record seller. Domain Name Commission (DNC), which manages New Zealand’s .nz country code domain name, has sued Whois information provider Whois API. The company is...
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Appeals court affirms injunction against DomainTools
DomainTools must take down .NZ Whois records while lawsuit proceeds. The United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit has ruled in favor of .NZ domain manager Domain Name Commission in a fight...
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Whois API removes .NZ records to settle lawsuit
Whois data seller quickly folds after facing lawsuit. Domain Name Commission (DNC), which manages New Zealand’s .NZ namespace, has dropped a lawsuit it filed against Whois API after the parties quickly...
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Tucows offers “Whois Publicity” for domain names
Customers can now publish their information in Whois. Tucows (NASDAQ: TCX) has started allowing customers on its Enom and OpenSRS platforms to display their information publicly in Whois—as long as...
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How to add more value to Whois lookup statistics
GoDaddy should change how it calculates Whois lookups. Now that GoDaddy has retired its old domain manager, some Domain Name Wire readers have asked how to download Whois counts for their domains. It...
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Redacted Whois at GoDaddy: a revenue hit but better customer experience
Privacy laws and bad customer experience are forcing GoDaddy to rethink a cash cow. Last Friday, Elliot Silver broke the news that GoDaddy is planning to limit personal information in Whois records...
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Registrars: remove phone numbers from Whois
You can no longer justify the harm it causes consumers. GoDaddy is making long-overdue changes to Whois records sometime soon. As much as I’ll hate missing the data, this is going to significantly...
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How spammers find new domain registrations
Spammers use a two-step process to learn about new domains and get the registrant’s contact details. My phone number has been abused over the past week. I’ve received dozens of spam text messages,...
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June’s top domain name news stories
Top stories from the domain name business in June 2020. Here’s a look back at what happened in the domain name business last month. These were five of the top stories on Domain Name Wire: 1. Intel and...
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Verisign gets patent for GDPR-compliant Whois privacy
Patented methods help Thick Whois registries handle privacy law compliance. A figure from Verisign’s patent that describes a way to offer GDPR-complaint Whois privacy in Thick Whois systems. The U.S....
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Security company Proofpoint files for reverse Whois patent
Proofpoint wants a patent for its domain discovery system. A figure from Proofpoint’s patent application showing reverse Whois data. Cybersecurity company Proofpoint (NASDAQ: PFPT) has filed a patent...
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GoDaddy adds back Whois counts
You can now see how many times someone (or something) has looked up the Whois records for your domains. GoDaddy has added Whois lookup counts to exported lists after removing them in a previous update....
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The future of Whois access is on the table today
ICANN and GNSO Council will meet to discuss the future of SSAD. Today, the ICANN board and the Generic Names Supporting Organization (GNSO) Council will meet to discuss ICANN’s first-ever Operational...
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ICANN disputes FDA’s assertions about Whois
Domain system overseer disagrees with FDA rep’s complaints about Whois. ICANN CEO Göran Marby has sent a letter (pdf) to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration disputing a presentation (pdf) one of its...
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Whois info and blockchain impact – DNW Podcast #409
Will a new Whois disclosure system satisfy anyone? On this week’s show, I speak with Marc Trachtenberg, a shareholder with Greenberg Traurig, LLP. Marc represents both brand holders looking to protect...
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