John DemcoICANN Reports RegisterFly Deal To Transfer Domains – ICANN reports that it “has been advised of a deal to transfer all names in RegisterFly’s management from RegisterFly to an existing accredited Registrar with a demonstrated record of customer service. This would be a quick and effective solution to many of the problems that registrants are presently experiencing with RegisterFly.” The acquiring registrar has not yet been named.
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- A Business 2.0 Magazine article on domainer Kevin Ham.
- The Internet Governance Forum releases a proposal (PDF) to decentralize control over the process of digitally signing the root zone file.
- The IETF approves an email authentication framework called DomainKeys Identified Mail (DKIM) which may be used against spam and phishing.
- The World Information Society Report 2007 finds that the digital divide is narrowing.