The NTIA, which is now obligated by law to provide a semi-annual report to Congress on ICANN policies and whether or not the NTIA supported these changes, has provided its…
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Donuts, through its Ruby Glen subsidiary that was used to apply for the .web new gTLD string, has lost an appeal to the US Court of Appeal [pdf] against ICANN…
It’s taken over 6 years, but the 100,000th .de domain name to be signed with DNSSEC was reached last week according to a statement from DENIC.
ICANN will hold its 63rd Public Meeting (ICANN63) in the Barcelona International Convention Centre from 20 to 25 October. ICANN63 is hosted by the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Business,…
Brett Kavanaugh, recently mired in several allegations of sexual assault from his younger self-confessed beer-drinking days, has found a website using his name set up as a resource for sexual…
ICANN has several opportunities at ICANN63 for community input and participation around strategic planning, operating standards and Specific and Organizational Reviews.
SIDN Labs, Afnic Labs and Grenoble Alps University have commenced a new research project on the “Classification of compromised versus maliciously registered domains” (COMAR).
As the auction for the .kids string commences in a duel between Amazon and the DotKids Foundation Limited, a project of DotAsia (Google, which had applied for .kid, was to…
ICANN has knocked back applications for the .persiangulf, .islam and .halal new gTLDs. The decisions were taken in a board meeting on 3 October.
Akram Attallah, ICANN’s second in charge and President of the Global Domains Division has resigned, effectively immediately, and will be taking up a position as CEO of Donuts, where his…
It was big week for Sedo on the Domain Name Journal chart of top reported sales for the week ending 9 September, taking out 17 of the top 20, but…
Nominet, best known for managing .uk, is donating £1 for every new .uk domain name registered to BBC Children in Need until Monday 19th November. With a minimum commitment of…
Registering domain names in a country code top level domain often has benefits to that country’s local internet community. In the case of Canada’s ccTLD, Byron Holland, President and CEO…
Jigsaw, one of Alphabet’s technology incubators, has released an app that protects internet users from DNS manipulation, a type of cyber attack used to block access to news sites, social…
GoDaddy’s founder Bob Parsons has announced he will resign from the company’s board of directors on Friday 5 October to devote his full-time efforts to the array of businesses he…