Domain Registration Related News
ICANN lays down the law
April 2005
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and
Numbers (ICANN) is calling a domain name registrar
and a registry operator on the carpet in a dispute
over the distribution of .pro domain names.
The Associated Press wrote up the spat between
ICANN and EnCirca, a domain name registrar in
Reading, Mass., that hawks its services
particularly to trademark owners. The gist of the
row? ICANN thinks EnCirca is exploiting a loophole
in its rules to offer the tightly restricted .pro
domains to nonprofessionals.
Documents posted to the ICANN Web site reveal that
EnCirca isn't the only recipient of testy ICANN
correspondence in the .pro controversy;
RegistryPro, the Chicago-based company that
operates the .pro registry, is also being asked to
pony up data related to EnCirca's activities.
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