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That's not at all what the summary says, as best I can tell. Are you referring to one of the linked articles? Because one of them says that the domain owner did not try to sell anything to anyone; the plaintiff made an unsolicited offer.

I'm surprised there aren't more people who realise than ICANN is, to use the technical term, fucking broken.

This flood of new TLDs it not good for the web. It does mean companies and organisation are basically required to register a whole bunch of domains, though, lest unsavoury types get their hands on one of the domains. And that means a whole lot more money for ICANN.

An alternate DNS root would be a 'solution', but breaking the web into two webs would be a pretty awful way to progress things.

Gah.

A news service called Domain Newswire is claiming to have gotten confirmation from Web.com: http://domainnamewire.com/2014/01/21/network-solutions-auto-enrolls-customer-into-1850-weblock-service/

The number listed was posted on Network Solutions' official Twitter account, the same account which explicitly said that the email is real. It really is their official Twitter account; their website links to it, and checking archive.org reveals that their website has linked to it for quite some time.

Web.com (Network Solutions' parent company) has also responded in other ways, confirming this story. For example, see http://domainnamewire.com/2014... .

parvi.org. Here are a few stories that made their way online: http://domainnamewire.com/?s=parvi.org

The domain existed, but Twitter didn't. Not really. Twitter wasn't created until 2006, and they bought the domain twitter.com for $7500 in that year.

The very same

FreeOffice.com just sold for $55k at Sedo.com:

http://domainnamewire.com/2010/11/02/500000-logo-com-deal-helps-sedo-clear-1m-for-the-week/

The whois info shows a change on 11/11/10 so the owner fields are probably current for the buyer SoftMaker:

org: SoftMaker Software GmbH
address: Kronacher Str. 7
city: Nrnberg
pcode: 90427
country: DE
updated: 2010-11-11 11:09:42

Their site advertises some type of Office software. But the temporary page is interesting in itself, though probably not related to the OO fork. Dunno.

No, it's more like buying a shiny new house, smashing down walls for 13 years, and trying to foist it off onto a naive buyer.

GoDaddy is infamous. When someone posted MySpace passwords to a mailing list archived by seclists, MySpace complained and GoDaddy immediately shut down seclists.org with less than 1 minute's notice. They weren't even hosting the material, just the DNS record. GoDaddy's counsel said "I think the fact that we gave him notice at all was pretty generous."

As covered on slashdot they also have a habit of coming up with reasons to suspend customers' accounts and not just terminating service but refusing to release the domain to a different registrar unless you pay exorbitant fees.

Also GoDaddy shut down some guy's personal website because they sent him an email to update his invalid email address in the whois information and he didn't reply to it. They didn't just shut down the domain, they sold it.

What kind of joke of a service provider complies with random complaints from non-customers against customers without court order?

AOL is representative of the Recently Unintended but now Omnipresent American Dream: Continue to fail miserably and pretend it didn't happen.

I tend to think of myself as being connected to what's happening in the internet universe but I am completely unaware of any strategy coming forth from AOL. Ten years after the giant Time Warner AOL merger and these guys spend their dollars taking owners of Advertising.com and Ad.com to court because their domain (not the use of the domain) infringes on AOL's prior use of Advertise.com which they branded Ad.com. What?

Of course AOL has already lost the case in district court against Advertising.com which is noted by the courts as "A generic and descriptive term to the Advertising industry, such that any agency might say they are in the Advertising .com business". Advertising.com loses against Advertise.com

What else are they working on that would make everyone in America feel so proud to be a part of? I want to give these guys my money. Send me some 1995-era blue-green CDs!

> I hope ICANN reconsiders and returns to latin+numbers only addresses.

ICANN is in the business of hyping domain name sales and cashing in on it. Look at their TLD selloff. Applying needs a $185K non-refundable "application fee" which ICANN claim they need to cover their oveheads. Justified if they read applications while drinking Dom Pérignon from a gold slipper. The only way to convince ICANN not to do something is to convince them it won't make them money. Speculators and squatters are still out there, so no chance!

http://www.mindsandmachines.com/2010/01/icanns-credibility-in-the-balance-are-new-tlds-going-to-happen/
http://www.domainnamenews.com/up-to-the-minute/businesses-urge-icann-initiate-gtlds-delay/6121
http://domainnamewire.com/2009/02/25/icann-to-study-price-caps-on-domain-registrations/
http://www.dnforum.com/f17/icann-irt-final-report-abomination-wholly-unbalanced-thread-369416.html

TFA:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/10432404.stm

As it was not covered on slashdot, here is a list of articles from DomainNameWire.com about Standard Tactics:
http://domainnamewire.com/2009/01/12/godaddy-brings-humor-to-company-mistakes/
http://domainnamewire.com/2008/12/17/go-daddy-to-shut-down-standard-tactics-llc/
http://domainnamewire.com/2008/12/08/commentary-why-standard-tactics-is-a-problem/
http://domainnamewire.com/2008/12/03/standard-tactics-llc-how-godaddy-profits-from-expired-domains/
It has some suggestions on "How Go Daddy Can Court Domainers":
http://domainnamewire.com/2010/02/23/how-go-daddy-can-court-domainers/
For more articles do a query for GoDaddy at:
http://domainnamewire.com/index.php?s=godaddy&x=0&y=0

As it was not covered on slashdot, here is a list of articles from DomainNameWire.com about Standard Tactics:
http://domainnamewire.com/2009/01/12/godaddy-brings-humor-to-company-mistakes/
http://domainnamewire.com/2008/12/17/go-daddy-to-shut-down-standard-tactics-llc/
http://domainnamewire.com/2008/12/08/commentary-why-standard-tactics-is-a-problem/
http://domainnamewire.com/2008/12/03/standard-tactics-llc-how-godaddy-profits-from-expired-domains/
It has some suggestions on "How Go Daddy Can Court Domainers":
http://domainnamewire.com/2010/02/23/how-go-daddy-can-court-domainers/
For more articles do a query for GoDaddy at:
http://domainnamewire.com/index.php?s=godaddy&x=0&y=0

As it was not covered on slashdot, here is a list of articles from DomainNameWire.com about Standard Tactics:
http://domainnamewire.com/2009/01/12/godaddy-brings-humor-to-company-mistakes/
http://domainnamewire.com/2008/12/17/go-daddy-to-shut-down-standard-tactics-llc/
http://domainnamewire.com/2008/12/08/commentary-why-standard-tactics-is-a-problem/
http://domainnamewire.com/2008/12/03/standard-tactics-llc-how-godaddy-profits-from-expired-domains/
It has some suggestions on "How Go Daddy Can Court Domainers":
http://domainnamewire.com/2010/02/23/how-go-daddy-can-court-domainers/
For more articles do a query for GoDaddy at:
http://domainnamewire.com/index.php?s=godaddy&x=0&y=0

As it was not covered on slashdot, here is a list of articles from DomainNameWire.com about Standard Tactics:
http://domainnamewire.com/2009/01/12/godaddy-brings-humor-to-company-mistakes/
http://domainnamewire.com/2008/12/17/go-daddy-to-shut-down-standard-tactics-llc/
http://domainnamewire.com/2008/12/08/commentary-why-standard-tactics-is-a-problem/
http://domainnamewire.com/2008/12/03/standard-tactics-llc-how-godaddy-profits-from-expired-domains/
It has some suggestions on "How Go Daddy Can Court Domainers":
http://domainnamewire.com/2010/02/23/how-go-daddy-can-court-domainers/
For more articles do a query for GoDaddy at:
http://domainnamewire.com/index.php?s=godaddy&x=0&y=0

As it was not covered on slashdot, here is a list of articles from DomainNameWire.com about Standard Tactics:
http://domainnamewire.com/2009/01/12/godaddy-brings-humor-to-company-mistakes/
http://domainnamewire.com/2008/12/17/go-daddy-to-shut-down-standard-tactics-llc/
http://domainnamewire.com/2008/12/08/commentary-why-standard-tactics-is-a-problem/
http://domainnamewire.com/2008/12/03/standard-tactics-llc-how-godaddy-profits-from-expired-domains/
It has some suggestions on "How Go Daddy Can Court Domainers":
http://domainnamewire.com/2010/02/23/how-go-daddy-can-court-domainers/
For more articles do a query for GoDaddy at:
http://domainnamewire.com/index.php?s=godaddy&x=0&y=0

As it was not covered on slashdot, here is a list of articles from DomainNameWire.com about Standard Tactics:
http://domainnamewire.com/2009/01/12/godaddy-brings-humor-to-company-mistakes/
http://domainnamewire.com/2008/12/17/go-daddy-to-shut-down-standard-tactics-llc/
http://domainnamewire.com/2008/12/08/commentary-why-standard-tactics-is-a-problem/
http://domainnamewire.com/2008/12/03/standard-tactics-llc-how-godaddy-profits-from-expired-domains/
It has some suggestions on "How Go Daddy Can Court Domainers":
http://domainnamewire.com/2010/02/23/how-go-daddy-can-court-domainers/
For more articles do a query for GoDaddy at:
http://domainnamewire.com/index.php?s=godaddy&x=0&y=0

I thought the same after stumbling onto it in 2007. Now it seems surprising that that there is surprise, especially after the mainstream coverage of ireport.com, toys.com and property.com sales.

So if you're interested, check out http://www.dnjournal.com/ and look at the "Domain Sales" and "YTD Sales Charts".

http://www.dnforum.com/ is the largest forum for domaining.

http://www.domainnamewire.com/ is an insightful news source.

http://www.namebio.com/ is fun to peruse for past sales.

Auctions for drops and end-user sales are at http://www.snapnames.com/ http://www.namejet.com/ and Godaddy's TDNAM service. http://www.sedo.com/ and http://afternic.com/ are mostly end user sales/auctions.

Then continue onto http://www.ricksblog.com/ and finally http://www.domaining.com./

There's plenty of other sites to surf and and never ceases to be interesting. There's even a book ("The Domain Game") that's a good read from a historical perspective.

It's a tough, relatively unknown and tight-knit business. But a burgeoning business nonetheless.

"This is a customer protection measure to protect customers from frontrunners," said Wade. "After four days, we release the domain." According to Wade, Network Solutions instituted this program as a test over the past few weeks. I asked if Network Solutions is actually acting as a frontrunner by doing this and she said there's a distinction. First, they are not monetizing the domains. Second, they have no intention of keeping the domains. All domains are released after the four day period.

Domain Name Wire has posted a response from NSI's PR department. Here's the relevent quote from NSI:

Translation: So if anyone else does it, it's bad, because they're domain front-running. But when we do it's it's ok, because, uh, we say so. No, really!

Just a few days ago, I launched a noncommercial site dedicated to this exact purpose -- encouraging and helping people move away from GoDaddy. The site is at NoDaddy.Com (I'm sure Bob Parsons loves the domain name ;).

I launched the site after GoDaddy shut down my domain SecLists.Org, as noted in this /. article summary. The site includes a list of alternative registrars that readers have recommended. It is rather sparse on details right now, but I'm working on that. I'll go through all your comments in this article tomorrow to fish out good ideas for the registrar section of the site. I'm trying to fill up the site as much as possible before GoDaddy's big SuperBowl ads air on Sunday. We are currently seeking a volunteer to set up and run the NoDaddy forums -- write me if you're interested. We're also looking for "NoDaddy girl" models, but perhaps Slashdot isn't the best place to recruit for that :).

Just today, CNET News.Com posted an article where they interviewed many registrars about there takedown policies. Unfortunately, many registrars refused or didn't bother to respond. Of those who did, the authors "found that the French registrar Gandi.net and New Orleans-based DirectNIC offered the most extensive guarantees against unnecessary domain name suspension."

-Fyodor
Insecure.Org