Last March we passed an important milestone: 30 years of norisdNorwegian domain names under the country code .no. Since 1987 .no has been an essential part of the Norwegian internet…
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For the first time ever, ICANN is about to change the cryptographic keys that help secure the Internet’s Domain Name System (DNS).
The Neo-Nazi website for The Daily Stormer is currently on a bit of a world tour of top level domains trying to find a home. After first GoDaddy and then…
The registration, or Whois, data for each .nl domain name now includes contact details for reporting abuse to the registrar, SIDN, the .nl registry has announced. The change came into…
auDA has been in the news for all the wrong reasons in recent months. The .au policy and regulatory body announced they were going to “build and operate” the registry…
The value of domain name sales continues to grow, particularly in short domains, according to the latest, and fifth edition, Liquid Domains Market Overview, which covers the second quarter of…
First GoDaddy and then 3 hours later Google rejected the domain name registration for the Daily Stormer, a neo-Nazi website, Monday. According to Whois, the domain name is still registered…
ICANN is seeking a provider to conduct an independent internal Human Rights Impact Assessment (HRIA) of ICANN‘s organizational operations.
ICANN is seeking a provider to conduct information systems audits mandated by the various contracts between the ICANN organization and the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) and the Regional Internet…
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) is taking action against 2 fraudulent businesses that have been sending out unsolicited notices to businesses. The ACCC alleges these notices look like…
Donuts, who has recently completed its takeover of Rightside, has announced it has closed a $110 million credit facility led by Silicon Valley Bank (a division of SVB Financial Group),…
Following Donuts’ takeover of Rightside being formalised on 28 July, one of the first benefits to come of it is that what was Rightside’s new gTLDs are now covered by…
You may have heard that over 550 big brands have a .brand Top-Level Domain (TLD), such as .microsoft, .ford and .barclays. But what exactly is a .brand TLD, and what…
In quite an extraordinary donation, gay.com has been donated to the Los Angeles LGBT Center, the world’s largest organisation providing services to LGBT people. The domain name was valued at…
The northern hemisphere summer is a quieter time for domain name sales, but one that struck it big was dcc.com, which sold for $198,000 in a private sale, to be…