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27 Feb 2008
In a recent
press release,
Los Angeles law firm Kabateck Brown Kellner says it's filed a class action
suit against Network Solutions and ICANN for front running.
(If you tuned in late, NetSol admits that if you query a domain name on
their web site, they will speculatively register it so that it's only
available through NetSol for five days, at their above market price.)
This is a very peculiar suit.
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Stable link is https://jl.ly/ICANN/frontrunsuit.html
16 Feb 2008
Recently, several of my friends
have
been
writing
about mailers who boast that they're compliant with CAN SPAM.
Here's our distilled advice in one handy word: don't.
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Stable link is https://jl.ly/Email/compliant.html
Last year I wrote two
blog
entries
on the dire state of Tralliance, owner of the .travel registry, which was
bailed out at the last minute by a large loan from the registry's
controlling shareholder, Michael Egan.
Since then they've taken some decisive steps on the road to irrelevance.
Originally, they had strict rules about who was allowed to register,
basically only members of a list of well known industry associations.
As of December 21, they have new rules that seem to limit registrants
to anyone who shows the faintest interest, with a preference to
bulk registrations.
(If you followed the history of .aero, the deja vú is intense.)
In September, they sold their search.travel search engine for about $300K
to a company controlled by Egan, stating they needed the cash to stay
in business.
Then,
according to an SEC filing,
Labigroup, another company controlled by Egan, has agreed to buy at
least 25,000 .travel domains, producing over $250,000 of simulated revenue
which looks an awful lot like taking money out of one pocket, waving it
around, and then putting it back in one's other pocket,
particularly since another
SEC filing two weeks ago reveals that current owner theglobe.com
is selling Tralliance to yet another LLC owned directly by Egan.
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Stable link is https://jl.ly/ICANN/traveldrain.html
06 Feb 2008
In
a
message posted to the ICANN GNSO list, Avri Doria forwarded along a most
interesting document from Neustar, who runs the .biz domain.
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Stable link is https://jl.ly/ICANN/biztaste.html
03 Feb 2008
Dell's anti-tasting suit that I wrote about
in
December
has been heating up, according to court documents filed in January.
There's been a lot of predictable legal skirmishing in which the defendant
registrars deny that they're also the registrants, claim that they're really
outside the US so they haven't been served, argue about some server disks
that the allegedly non-US defendant has at a data center in Florida, and
so forth, but what really jumps out are the arguments about how
much money this suit is (again allegedly) costing the defendants.
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Stable link is https://jl.ly/ICANN/tastebucks.html
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