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February 20, 2019
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.DEV Early Access Period Commences With General Availability on 28 Feb

By David Goldstein | New TLDs, Registrant, Registrar, Registry | No Comments

The Early Access Period for Google’s .dev new gTLD, the first chance for the public to register .dev domain names, commenced on 19 February and runs through until 28 February….

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February 20, 2019
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ICANN, Verisign, SIDN and Others Warn of Global Domain Name Hijacking Campaign

By David Goldstein | Governance, Registrant, Registrar, Registry | No Comments

A number of domain name organisations including ICANN, Verisign and SIDN have warned of domain hijacking threats. SIDN, the .nl ccTLD registry, has advised they “have been working with NCSC-NL…

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February 20, 2019
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ICANN: Application Deadline Extended for ICANN and PTI Leadership Positions

By David Goldstein | Governance | No Comments

The ICANN Nominating Committee (NomCom) has extended its application deadline for ICANN and PTI leadership positions. The new deadline is Friday, 22 March 2019 at 23:59 Coordinated Universal Time (UTC)….

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February 13, 2019
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DomainTools Continues To Systematically Violate .NZ’s ToU Harvesting WHOIS Data, Despite Preliminary Injunction

By David Goldstein | Opinion, Registrant, Registrar, Registry | No Comments

In a reply brief filed in the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals last week, New Zealand’s Domain Name Commission has accused DomainTools of continuing to harvest the personal data of…

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February 11, 2019
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Escrow.com Has Bumper 2018 With 57% Growth As They Continue To Build The World’s Best Escrow Service

By David Goldstein | Aftermarket, Governance, New TLDs, Opinion, Registrant | No Comments

Today we have another instalment in our Q&A series, this time with Escrow.com. Escrow.com had a bumper year in 2018, with a 57% increase in domain transactions, but this was…

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February 8, 2019
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Verisign 2018 Financial Results Reveal 153.0 Million .COM and .NET Domains

By David Goldstein | Registrant, Registrar, Registry | No Comments

Verisign reported their fourth quarter and full year 2018 financial results Thursday which showed 153.0 million .com and .net domain name registrations in the domain name base, a 4.5% increase…

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February 7, 2019
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PIR’s New CEO Jon Nevett Discusses .ORG, GDPR Challenges, New gTLDs and How It All Applies To NGOs

By David Goldstein | Governance, New TLDs, Opinion, Registrant, Registrar, Registry | No Comments

In December 2018 the Public Interest Registry appointed Jon Nevett as their President and CEO. Today he’s taking part in the Domain Pulse Q&A series. Jon discusses how the GDPR…

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February 7, 2019
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Domain Pulse Conference in Bern Only Days Away

By David Goldstein | Governance, Registrant, Registrar, Registry | No Comments

Domain Pulse, the annual domain name conference of the German-speaking world, is only days away. It will be held in the beautiful Swiss capital of Bern on Monday 18 and…

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February 7, 2019
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CIRA Migrates Canada’s .CA To Their Fury Registry Platform

By David Goldstein | New TLDs, Registrant, Registrar, Registry | No Comments

Canada’s ccTLD manager CIRA has announced that Canada’s ccTLD, .ca, is now powered by their industry leading Fury Registry Platform. CIRA’s Fury Registry Platform is a next-generation top-level domain (TLD)…

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February 6, 2019
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Michele Neylon Talks .IE, GDPR, European Commission’s .EU Failure, New gTLD Thoughts And More

By David Goldstein | Governance, New TLDs, Opinion, Registrant, Registrar, Registry | No Comments

In today’s Domain Pulse Q&A we talk to Blacknight Solutions’ Michele Neylon who discusses how the simplification of .ie policies was a 2018 highlight, while “a big negative has been…

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February 6, 2019
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Fostering IDN adoption and growth in India – New IDN features available soon

By David Goldstein | Registrant, Registrar, Registry | No Comments

March is set to be an exciting month in the history of the .IN domain namespace. When the .IN Registry will transition fully to Neustar’s backend technology, a number of…

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February 6, 2019
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ICANN: Recommendations for Managing Internationalized Domain Name Variant TLDs Published

By David Goldstein | Governance, New TLDs | No Comments

ICANN today [5 Feb] announced the release of the Recommendations for Managing Internationalized Domain Name (IDN) Variant Top-Level Domains (TLDs) as a collection of six documents. These recommendations have been…

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February 6, 2019
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.HOMES Sees Six-Fold Increase in Registrations 3 Weeks After Price Reductions and Eligibility Restrictions Removed

By David Goldstein | New TLDs, Registrant, Registrar, Registry | No Comments

The .homes new gTLD had some pretty onerous eligibility restrictions for the first 19 months of its life and a reasonably steep registry fee. But on 14 January, the fee…

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February 5, 2019
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New gTLDs Account for 51% of Domains Considered Security Threats, But Only 12% of Total gTLD Registrations

By David Goldstein | Governance, New TLDs, Registrant, Registrar, Registry | No Comments

Security threats in all gTLDs are roughly split 50/50 between new gTLDs and legacy gTLDs, however new gTLDs only account for 12% of domain names registered across all generic top…

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February 5, 2019
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NamesCon Publishes Trend Report With Keynote Highlights

By David Goldstein | Aftermarket, Governance, New TLDs, Registrant, Registrar, Registry | No Comments

NamesCon took place and for those who couldn’t make it, or for those who were busy socialising, the organisers have compiled a Trend Report that captures “every actionable takeaway, tweetable…

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  • .DEV Early Access Period Commences With General Availability on 28 Feb
  • ICANN, Verisign, SIDN and Others Warn of Global Domain Name Hijacking Campaign
  • ICANN: Application Deadline Extended for ICANN and PTI Leadership Positions
  • DomainTools Continues To Systematically Violate .NZ’s ToU Harvesting WHOIS Data, Despite Preliminary Injunction
  • Escrow.com Has Bumper 2018 With 57% Growth As They Continue To Build The World’s Best Escrow Service
  • Verisign 2018 Financial Results Reveal 153.0 Million .COM and .NET Domains

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