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CoolHotmail: MSN Live Hotmail now offering custom domain names in …
TechWhack, India - 3 hours ago CoolHotmail.com is a new service from Microsoft through which they are offering webmail accounts on customized domain names in the Indian market. … MSN Launches Cool Hotmail Tech2 all 2 news articles |
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Crime wave: Hijackers swipe Internet domains
Indianapolis Star, United States - 2 hours ago Experts say the theft of Internet domain names occurs every day. The thieves — taking advantage of companies that have let down their guard or failed to … |
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:. Real owner of Kashmir.com is a Kashmiri
Kashmir Watch, Pakistan - 3 hours ago This domain name was stolen from him by the Indian Army in May 2002 using sophisticated methods at a time when the regulation and security of the names … |
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The .name Whois functionality is a compromise between the ICANN policies and the legacy of Whois as a service anyone could use to look up anyone, and the EU Data Protection Act.
It is an important principle in the Act that people must be able to register for the service without thereby necessarily disclosing their private information to the world. Compare with the ability of getting a phone number without necessarily putting it and all personal details in the White Pages. From a privacy point of view, this means that .name Registrants are more protected from data harvesters and spammers on .name than on most other domains. At the same time, we, as much as others, want to ensure that people violating laws and policies can be tracked down and sites taken down when required.
The compromise position is the .name Whois - where anyone can get basic, non-personal information, that has real technical and operational use. With the basic information, the Registrar, host and nameserver operators can be tracked down and the domain can be taken off line. However, for those in need of detailed personal information, the .name Whois provides it, provided that the requestor can be identified, either via 1) a token payment, or 2) a contract with Global Name Registry for persistent access for special interest groups, like law enforcement. The latter is free, the former a token $2, which raises the barrier for spammers so as to make spam uneconomical, and is low enough to be irrelevant for genuinely needed requests (which as it turns out, are extremely few).
So in summary, to be clear - there is [b]no payment required[/b] for those entering into the Whois Extensive Agreement, which offers full, instant manual access to those with legitimate interests.
We believe this is the best possible compromise between two very different positions, one legal (EU Data Protection Act), the other legacy (Whois as a fully open tool for anyone) - on one side, that personal information should be protected, and on the other side, that bad registrations and illegal conduct should be identified and remedied.
Hakon Haugnes
President
Global Name Registry Reply
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John Tory, domain-name hijacker?
Globe and Mail, Canada - 29 minutes ago The Canadian Internet Registration Authority (CIRA), which administers domain names in Canada, has been known to take action in such cases: earlier this … |
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The company that manages the .name top-level domain registry is charging for access to domain registration information (Whois data), a step that security researchers say frustrates their ability to police the Internet and creates a haven for hackers who run internet scams. More…
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Kashmir up for sale, virtually
Business Standard, India - 1 hour ago Besides, we can always resort to arbitration if we want to reclaim any of these domain names,” said Vijay Mukhi, president of the Mumbai-based Foundation … |
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.Name Registrar Defends Pay for Whois Policy
Wired News - 1 hour ago Hakon Haugnes, the founder and president of the Global Name Registry, the company that oversees the .name Top Level Domain, said via an email after the … |
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Kiwi may be in running to head the global internet
Stuff.co.nz, New Zealand - 4 hours ago Domaines.info reported this left Mr Dengate Thrush and Mr Gaetano, who has extensive experience of both ICANN and the domain name industry and speaks five … ICANN after Vint Cerf Daily domain name industry news all 8 news articles |
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Dot-Name Becomes Cybercrime Haven
Wired News - 3 hours ago ICANN, which sets the rules for the internet's top-level domain names such as .com and .net, has traditionally required registrars to make Whois data … ICANN Hosts Meeting in Taiwan Web Host Industry Review all 2 news articles |
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