Ireland’s ccTLD .ie has grown 40% in 5 years the latest .IE Domain Profile Report published this week by IE Domain Registry shows, fuelled by a registration rule change, a…
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Registrations of .eu domain names in the United Kingdom have almost halved, declining 46.7% to 162,287 in the year to the end of June and 13.9% for the quarter as…
Verisign released their top 10 trending keywords in English for .com and .net for June this week. Verisign note that there’s often a correlation between domain name registrations and newsworthy…
No, ICANN isn’t impoverished. They don’t need financial help! But they want your voting support to get their proposed panel discussion voted to be discussed at SXSW’s 2020 event. The…
CENTR is to hold its annual pan-European Registrar Day in at The Hotel in Brussels, Belgium, on 8 October. It will be followed by the fourth CENTR Awards, which aim…
Neustar has been appointed as registry operator for Vanuatu’s ccTLD, .vu, by the Office of the Vanuatu Telecommunications, Radiocommunications and Broadcasting Regulator (TRBR) following a competitive tender process. Adding .vu…
Today [8 Aug], ICANN announced the publication of its ICANN65 Fellowship Program Post-Meeting Report [PDF, 356 KB]. The report, authored by fellows, provides information on their pre-meeting activities, meeting highlights,…
EURid’s top level domains – .eu, the Cyrillic ею, and soon the Greek .ευ – are now using nic.at’s Anycast service RcodeZero DNS following extensive testing in recent months. The…
Today, Public Interest Registry (PIR) announced the hiring of Laurie Tarpey as Chief Financial Officer (CFO). With extensive experience leading finance operations for both for-profit and nonprofit organizations, Laurie will…
The Rwandan government is aiming to boost the digital footprint of the east-central African country of 12.2 million people, the Ministry of ICT and Innovation in partnership with RICTA Rwanda…
On the day when CentralNic announced it had completed its acquisition of the German/Canadian Hexonet Group, it announced it was acquiring another registrar, this time the privately-owned New Zealand Ideegeo…
The nomination and voting period for the 2019 .eu Web Awards is now closed and EURid is gearing up to announce the finalists on 3 September. This year there were…
It wasn’t the first time a white terrorist had committed a massacre, nor the first time the terrorist had posted their intentions on 8chan, but Cloudflare has decided they’ve had…
Radix released a report on the sale of premium domain names across their new gTLDs from January to June this week, with over 80 domain names sold for more than…
Tuesday’s sudden departure of the auDA CEO comes during a protracted period of turmoil at the .au policy and regulatory body and leaves nobody at the .au policy and regulatory…