MySpace stripped of myspace.co.uk
Posted on May 3rd, 2008 by Jack in Industry News
Some of you may know that MySpace won the domain myspace.co.uk that was registered by a UK ISP 6 years before the myspace.com was released. Well there is good news… article from register.com
"An independent appeals panel has overturned a heavily-criticised decision to hand control of the myspace.co.uk domain to Rupert Murdoch’s Fox Interactive Media.
Nominet’s Dispute Resolution Service (DRS), had ruled in favour of MySpace in January, despite the domain having been registered by a small British ISP six years before the US social network was founded
Barring any possible further High Court action by MySpace accusing TWS of "passing off", the judgement, released on Thursday last week and passed to The Register today, means control of the address remains with Stockport’s Total Web Solutions (TWS).
RegisterFly.com now RegFly.com?
Posted on March 2nd, 2008 by Jack in Industry News
"It looks like RegisterFly is trying to get back on their feet. The RegisterFly.com domain and all emails now take you to RegFly.com - with the ICANN termination notice removed.
If you notice, the footer now says "A service of Retail Web Group.", linking to http://www.retailweb.us/ . What I find funny is that its registered by Robert O’Neill (regfly ceo) at GoDaddy….Not Registerfly! Plus his email contact is an "@hostflex.com" address - could this be another one of Regflys many spin off services?
New ICANN Chairman
Posted on November 5th, 2007 by Jack in Industry News
LOS ANGELES : Peter Dengate Thrush, a New Zealand lawyer, has been elected unanimously as the new Chairman of the Board of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers. "I am delighted that my colleagues have placed their confidence in me for this challenging and important role," Dengate Thrush said.
Peter practices civil litigation, specializing in intellectual property, competition, and Internet law. He has been involved in ICANN since its inception. As a member of the Boston Working Group, he provided comment in 1998 on the early drafts of the ICANN bylaws, and he co-chaired one of the pre-formation meetings of the Intellectual Property Constituency in Wellington, New Zealand.
