Nominet saw a small drop in complaints in 2016, with 25 fewer complaints for the 12-month period than in 2015. The 703 complaints related to 785 domain names, according to…
The United States Embassy in Costa Rica has been pressuring the local ccTLD operator, NIC Costa Rica, to take down thepiratebay.cr domain name with increasing urgency as the registry resists….
The sale of lola.com for $550,000 was the biggest sale for the fortnight ending 4 June according to Domain Name Journal’s usually weekly chart of top reported sales in a…
Growth in the total number of domain names registered worldwide was 7.1% in 2016, down from 11.7% in 2015, a study released Monday from the French ccTLD registry Afnic found.
Brief Overview Purpose: On 1 December 2016, the GNSO Council directed ICANN Policy Staff to draft proposed language for any necessary modifications or additions to the GNSO Operating Procedures and,…
[news release] Building on the success of the first workshop held in Nairobi, Kenya in January 2017, ICANN and Governmental Advisory Committee (GAC) Under Served Regions and Public Safety Working…
The .africa new gTLD has had one of the most successful Sunrise periods of any, receiving 981 applications during the period for trademark holders that ran from 4 April to…
ICANN will hold its 59th Public Meeting in the Johannesburg Sandton Convention Center from 26-29 June 2017. This meeting is ICANN‘s second ever Policy Forum, which is focused on policy…
auDA’s members are revolting against recent developments within the .au policy regulator following moves to bring the registry under auDA’s wings without consultation and transparency and accountability disappearing.
Brief Overview Purpose: This public comment forum is intended to gather community feedback on the proposed Framework for the Registry Operator to Respond to Security Threats that has been a…
Two of the bigger participants in the new gTLD world, Seattle-based Donuts and Rightside, are merging the companies announced Wednesday. The announcement comes almost a year after Rightside rejected a…
ICANN today (14 June) announced the creation of the Global Indigenous Ambassador Program. The program establishes two Indigenous Ambassadors, to be selected from underrepresented indigenous communities. Through the inclusion of…
The InternetNZ Council has released plans to merge the 3 bodies that manage different aspects of .NZ into one. The plans follow an organisational review of the InternetNZ group (InternetNZ,…
There are currently over 40,000 profiles on the icann.org website, but ICANN has become aware that many of these are fake despite instituting security measures like two-factor authentication and CAPTCHA….
The .es registry, Red.es, has become aware of a number of domain names in their registry with inaccurate Whois data following an audit of registrations.
