South Africa’s ccTLD manager the .ZA Domain Name Authority (ZADNA) has terminated their CEO Vika Mpisane effective 16 July 2019, according to a report in the South African MyBroadband, and…
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Public Interest Registry published their 2018 annual report Thursday, highlighting what for them was a “solid year for .org, from exceeding financial goals to continuing to grow a strong user…
Neustar and the U.S. Department of Commerce National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) yesterday announced Neustar has been awarded a contract to continue operating the .us ccTLD for up to…
ICANN has launched the APAC Space Survey, which will remain open until 1 August 2019, 23:59 UTC. Your input will help to make the APAC Space more relevant to the…
For many industry participants, the timing around opening the next round of new Top-Level Domain applications has been frustrating to say the least. However, with the recent ICANN Marrakech meeting…
OK, the €700,000 ($798,000) sale of links.com which topped the Domain Name Journal chart of top reported sales for the week ending 23 June is small fry compared to last…
France’s .fr grew by 4.4% in 2018, outstripping both the French domain name market as a whole, which grew by 2.1%, according to the Afnic 2018 annual report and global…
After several months of activity, the actors behind the “Sea Turtle” DNS hijacking campaign are not slowing down, according to a blog post on Cisco’s Talos Intelligence blog post this…
ICANN have published their Post-ICANN65 Policy Report. The report is an overview of decisions and outcomes from the Supporting Organizations and Advisory Committees in Marrakech and provides resources to enable…
Brief Overview Purpose: This public comment proceeding seeks to obtain community input prior to Board action on certain final policy recommendations from the Generic Names Supporting Organization Policy Development Process…
In 2018 Afnic, best known as the registry operator for France’s ccTLD .fr, was designated by the Paris-based International Council of Museums (ICOM) as the backend registry provider for .museum….
Following the launch of second level .uk registrations where existing third level registrants had 5 years to claim their corresponding .uk domain name, over 1.8 million out of over 10…
Today [10 July], ICANN announced the release of the third version of Label Generation Rules for the Root Zone (RZ-LGR-3). These rules define a set of criteria for determining valid…
ICANN is seeking to identify a contractor to perform the research, analysis, and writing necessary to produce Study 1 of the Name Collision Analysis Project (NCAP). Name collision refers to…
Facebook’s announcement of their new Libra cryptocurrency in mid-June had a big impact on .com and .net domain name registrations with “libra” topping the top 10 trending keywords in English…