Maarten Botterman has been selected as the next Chair of the ICANN Board, the current Chair Cherine Chalaby announced in a post on the ICANN blog Monday, while León Felipe…
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There were 17,188 .brand domain names with 11,663 being used, both up 10%, according to the latest .brands Industry Report from Neustar covering the 6 months to 30 June. And…
The heady days of double-digit percentage growth in the domain name industry appear to be over forever as the industry matures and in many markets registrations reach what appears to…
It wasn’t a week for big domain name sales, but it meant that some ccTLD sales were able to take out 3 of the top 4 positions on the Domain…
The best websites using a .nyc domain name stand to win a $5,000 cash prize, among other goodies, in the 2019 Best of Boroughs competition. The Best of Boroughs will…
ICANN announced the successful installation of an ICANN Managed Root Server (IMRS) instance in Shanghai, China. A root server is a name server for the Domain Name System (DNS) root…
Today [3 Sep] ICANN announced that the Meridian Institute, the independent examiner of the Country Code Names Supporting Organization (ccNSO), has concluded its review and submitted its final report. Final…
ICANN’s Office of the CTO (OCTO) has launched a mailing list to facilitate discussions on Domain Abuse Activity Reporting (DAAR) and any other Domain Name System (DNS) abuse related projects…
A pair of 6-figure domain names topped the Domain Name Journal weekly chart of top reported sales for the week ending 4 August, with bestdeals.com coming out top selling for…
CentralNic released their half yearly results for January to June Monday reporting both revenues and Adjusted EBITDA have tripled year-on-year, driven by a combination of growth through acquisition and underlying…
DENIC is inviting interested ccTLDs to an ID4me Authority Workshop on 17 October – the day before this year’s ID4me Summit – in Madrid. ID4me is an open and federated…
The number of domain names registered around the world passed 350 million in the second quarter of 2019, totalling 354.7 million as of 30 June, according to the latest Domain…
The 2-letter domain name rx.com topped the Domain Name Journal chart of top reported sales for the week ending 28 July, selling for a big $1 million through Dave Evanson…
Donuts is to reduce the price for approximately 250,000 of their premium domains and more than 850,000 premium domains will move to standard pricing on 5 November across their portfolio…
Renewal rates are going up, but total registration numbers are down for Poland’s ccTLD .pl, according to their latest Domain Name Market quarterly report for the second quarter of 2019….