I like this and I do not. I think if a domain is transfered (change of registrant) to a New Owner with in a registrar, the domain should be locked for security reasons, because theft could of taken place. Again, this brings up another issue (I blogged about this in the past) since any domain name owner […]

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) is starting to look at how the organization might function after its current memorandum of understanding with the U.S. Department of Commerce expires in September 2009.
ICANN, the nonprofit group that manages the the Internet domain name system, has suggested it should become independent of Commerce Department […]

Reported on the ICANN web site on Feb 27th, NeuStar and Afilias submitted separate but similar requests through the Registry Services Evaluation Process to modify the AGP in their respective TLDs in order “to address the excessive delete problem” (i.e. domain tasting) in .BIZ and .INFO on Feb 5th 2008. Currently there are no limitations […]

Today I was doing a little surfing around and came across Pool.com’s (C&R) Catch and Release. In other words Domain Tasting with a fancy name!
To me, this is a clear slap in the face to ICANN, with Pool stating, “look what we can do with this loophole”. Clearly they are offering a service to profit […]