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11 Oct 2014

Now there's a business opportunity ICANN

I see that Afilias has reserved SLAVE.BLACK as a premium domain, presumably to be auctioned to the highest bidder. I'm trying to figure out what the business model is.

(Some names, including a lot of offensive words, are permanently reserved by ICANN, but this isn't one of them.)

Domain Name:SLAVE.BLACK
Domain ID: D53146846-LRMS
Creation Date: 2014-07-17T15:32:41Z
Updated Date: 2014-09-15T20:32:11Z
Registry Expiry Date: 2015-07-17T15:32:41Z
Sponsoring Registrar:Afilias (R720-LRMS)
Sponsoring Registrar IANA ID: 9999
WHOIS Server:
Referral URL:
Domain Status: inactive
Registrant ID:BLACK-Premium
Registrant Name:Afilias Limited
Registrant Organization:Afilias Limited
Registrant Street: 2 La Touche House
Registrant Street: IFSC
Registrant City:Dublin
Registrant State/Province:n/a
Registrant Postal Code:n/a
Registrant Country:IE
Registrant Phone:+1.2157065700
Registrant Phone Ext:
Registrant Fax: +1.2157065701
Registrant Fax Ext:
Registrant Email:support@afilias.info

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Afilias tweets me "This name is in the blocked list. Was misplaced in the premium list before and corrected."

The whois now says: Connecting to BLACK.whois-servers.net... Reserved by Registry

(by Larry Seltzer 12 Oct 2014 07:25)


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