Considerations for Innocent Domain Name Owners
| by Lee Hodgson | August 15, 2003 |
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The ICANN Uniform Dispute Resolution Policy ("UDRP") and the Anticybersquatting Consumer Protection Act ("ACPA") present grave risks to innocent domain name owners. This page offers some general comments for domain name owners to assist them in avoiding loss of their domain names. |
UDRP
| by Lee Hodgson | August 15, 2003 | |
This Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (the "Policy") has been adopted by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers ("ICANN"), is incorporated by reference into your Registration Agreement, and sets forth the terms and conditions in connection with a dispute between you and any party other than us (the registrar) over the registration and use of an Internet domain name registered by you. |
Take Responsibility for Domain Renewals
| by Lee Hodgson | August 14, 2003 | |
I'm sometimes contacted by site owners complaining their web site and e-mail has suddenly stopped working. Upon investigation, I often have devastating news for them: the domain name used to access their site has been deleted. 99 times out of 100 this happens because they failed to pay the renewal fees for their domain name after the initial registration period ran out. |
How Secure Is Your Domain Name?
| by Lee Hodgson | August 14, 2003 | |
Fancy playing Russian roulette with your online business?
Of course not, but if you knew how insecure your domain name might be, you'd realize what a risk you were taking. Here are five potential security risks pertaining to domain name ownership and tips to minimize them. |
Give Domain Registration Information a Second Though
| by Lee Hodgson | August 13, 2003 |
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Enter Honest and Complete Registration Information
WHOIS data is very poorly protected by privacy laws, and is in fact available for any company to buy for $10,000 or less. So many people are tempted to enter bogus registration information to avoid getting spammed. |
Domain Goldrush Part 6 - Snap-Back To The Future?
| by Lee Hodgson | August 12, 2003 | |
Verisign Inc. have announced the details of a new system that will completely change the way deleting domain names are re-registered. Although the proposal has still to be commented on by the "Registrar Constituency", chances are that by March 20th, we'll all use this new system if we want to register expiring domain names.
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Help! I've Lost My Domain Name!
| by Lee Hodgson | August 12, 2003 | |
Imagine this: you wake up one morning to find your web site has disappeared, your e-mail has stopped working and a person you've never heard of is listed as the owner of your domain name. Such a Kafkaesque loss of digital identity is actually surprisingly common. |
Domain Goldrush Part 7 - WLS Gets ICANN Approval
| by Lee Hodgson | August 12, 2003 |
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After a long delay, ICANN recently approved the introduction of VeriSign's "Wait Listing Service" (WLS). For those of you not familiar with WLS, it is a registry-level first-come first-served subscription service for the automatic registration of deleted domain names.
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.US Domain Name: Born in the USA
| by Lee Hodgson | August 12, 2003 |
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Quiz question - what is the domain name for the United States, is it .com perhaps? You would be forgiven for thinking so, since practically all US-based commercial web sites use the .com domain. |
Domain Goldrush Part 3 - Wild Wild West
| by Lee Hodgson | August 12, 2003 | |
The expiring domains goldrush, previously described in Part 1 of this series, is over - at least as far as the average domain speculator is concerned. As recently as six months ago anyone with a PC, a browser, and a good idea of when a hot domain name was going to expire, had a good chance of grabbing it, and often they'd make a small fortune in the process. |
