MetaFilter posts tagged with domains

RegisterFly, er RegFly at it again

FlamingBore — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 13:29:59 -0800

ICANN accreditation yanked, RegisterFly rebrands and tries again. Though partner Robert O'Niell claims otherwise, it looks like former CEO Kevin Medina is still in the picture. Without accreditation and their former registrar partner, eNom, Reg~~ister~~Fly, uh I mean RegFly has partnered with leading wholesale registrar Tucows to start selling domain names again. RegisterFlies.com comes out of retirement. Previously.

The man who owns the Internet

MetaMonkey — Tue, 22 May 2007 14:14:16 -0800

Meet Kevin Ham, the man who owns the Internet

Domain name hell

a_day_late — Mon, 26 Feb 2007 09:02:35 -0800

Registerfly falls apart as ICANN watches As the registerfly fiasco continues, ICANN seems feckless and befuddled. Some people's anger seems to have spiraled out of control. Others take this opportunity to hone their movie making skills.

Verisign and ICANN

Protocols of the Elders of Awesome — Mon, 20 Feb 2006 19:18:27 -0800

Bob Parsons of Go Daddy warns about the proposed contract between VeriSign and ICANN, allowing VeriSign a permanent monopoly on .COM and price increases without regulation.

Protect domain names for the Children!

TwelveTwo — Thu, 19 Jan 2006 15:31:07 -0800

"Each day, tens of thousands of our precious domain names are bought by greedy corporations and squandered for non-sustainable commercial development." But the Domain Name Preservation Society wants to help. Donate your names after you no longer need them, and they will retire protected within the sanctuary. Otherwise, what domains will our children be left with if we do not protect the endangered domain names of today?

benedictXVI.com

riffola — Tue, 19 Apr 2005 21:24:32 -0800

BenedictXVI.com registered a few weeks ago by our very own rcade. He hedged his bets by registering six domains in all, and now is being called out for popesquatting.

Dinosaur 0, Common Sense 1

Pericles — Sat, 29 May 2004 01:38:55 -0800

Barney is a 6 year old boy whose dad bought the .co.uk domain of his name so he can use it when he's older. Barney is a 60 million year old malevolent purple dinosaur and wants "his" domain name back. Hilarity, thinly vieled contempt and common-sense ensues .. (via NTK)

The Sinking of Tuvalu

stbalbach — Wed, 28 Apr 2004 13:41:59 -0800

The Sinking of Tuvalu, by Kevin Maney. The bizarre story of an island nations sinking fortunes.

Psilocybertastic!

adamms222 — Mon, 08 Mar 2004 13:00:04 -0800

Whoah. I accidentally typed our favorite blog's URL minus a period, and stumbled upon this educational reference site. Those devious hippies have gone too far....

No redirects! Bad Verisign! No biscuit!

dejah420 — Mon, 22 Sep 2003 15:44:07 -0800

ICANN requests Verisign to stop wildcard redirects. The Internet Architecture Board posts many reasons why wildcards are a very bad thing in root servers. Verisign responds by saying "We don't care and you can't make us." (This is a follow-up to this thread.)