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ICANN70 Meeting Starts Today

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The ICANN70 Virtual Community Forum, originally scheduled to be held in Cancun, Mexico, begins today as a fully virtual event. As with all ICANN meetings, the ICANN 70 event is free to attend and meetings are open to the public. I believe registration is required in order to gain access to the meeting links and agenda.

Because the event was scheduled to be held in Mexico, all meetings will be held during regular hours on Cancún time (EST / UTC-5, Chetumal). The ICANN meeting runs from today through the 25th. Most of the sessions will run via Zoom, allowing for up to 500 participants at a time.

This is the fourth virtual meeting ICANN has held during the Covid-19 pandemic.

GoDaddy Auctions Wins Can Still be Cancelled

Elliot Silver
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In 2017, GoDaddy changed its domain name expiry process. As far as I understood, this change was going to pretty much eliminate the ability for a domain registrant to renew a domain name once it went to auction for domain names registered at GoDaddy. I know this doesn’t apply for domain names registered at auction partner registrars like Enom, but I thought GoDaddy-registered names that went to auction could no longer be renewed post-auction.

It was always frustrating to participate in an auction, submit payment, and then receive the cancelation and refund email. It’s a frustrating experience and a waste of time.

Earlier today on Twitter, I was mentioned in a tweet by the winning bidder of ChicagoPizza.com. Apparently, this person won the auction for ChicagoPizza.com and the auction was cancelled. The winning bid for the domain name was $9,400, as archived by NameBio.

GoDaddy’s Joe Styler responded to the tweet thread:

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Steps to Complete a Domain Name Purchase

Elliot Silver
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When buying domain names privately, I deal with many people and/or companies that do not regularly sell domain names. Some of these counter parties have never sold a domain name and they do not know the steps involved in completing a domain name purchase.

In order to make the process understandable for them, I provide a bit of a step by step guide to completing a domain name sale. Here are the steps I outline:

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FuckYouPayMe.com Sold via DAN

Elliot Silver
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One of the most memorable lines in the movie Goodfellas is “Fuck you, pay me!” You can watch the scene below if you aren’t in a work environment or around children or others who might care about a little bit of cursing:

This morning on Twitter, Vito announced the sale of his four word FuckYouPayMe.com domain name for $4,499. I recall seeing that domain name recently, and NameBio shows the domain name was acquired via GoDaddy this past December.

From the looks of the screenshots in the tweet, the deal was closed via DAN.com:

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Clorox Goes After 375 New gTLD Domain Names in UDRP

Elliot Silver
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The Clorox Company filed a massive UDRP at the World Intellectual Property Organization involving hundreds of new gTLD domain names. The case filing is WIPO Case D2021-0781. The 375 domain names involved in the UDRP all have .XYZ, .Shop, and .Club extensions. (Update: There are 4 .com domain names in the list, too) They all appear to incorporate the Clorox branding in the domain names.

The domain names involved in the UDRP are listed below, but keywords include terms like cmcloroxa, ascloroxa, and other variations which incorporate Clorox or typos of the brand name. I would imagine this should be a fairly easy win for Clorox given the amount of domain names that appear to be targeting the brand.

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GoDaddy Changing Lock Policy Regarding Legal Disputes

Elliot Silver
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Last week, I wrote an article sharing my opinion that a domain name should not be locked by GoDaddy in a legal dispute unless a court order is received – with very few exceptions.  This came to my attention after reading about GoDaddy’s decision to lock domain names owned by Brent Oxley in response to litigation that was filed.

At several points during the discussion on NamePros, GoDaddy VP Paul Nicks commented that GoDaddy was working with outside groups to make a determination about whether or not its legal locking policy needs to be updated or revised. Yesterday afternoon, Paul shared another update to let people know the decision was reversed and the company has updated its policy:

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