When The Pirate Bay was ordered to hand over its .se domains to the Swedish state, a case currently being appealed, it registered a number of “hydra” domains – thepiratebay.la,…
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Monthly Archives: December 2015
Chinese phone maker ZTE has reportedly paid $2 million for the domain name nubia.com. Currently the company uses the nubia.cn and nubia.com.cn domains for its websites for the Nubia branded…
On 23 December, the number of domain names registered across all delegated new gTLDs passed the 11 million mark, according to nTLDstats.com, out of a total of just over 300…
ICANN has updated the PDT test specifications and supporting resources for Whois testing. The changes update the Whois tests to incorporate requirements described in the Additional Whois Information Policy and…
ICANN today (23/12) announced that 17 individuals have been selected to serve on the team that will review the New gTLD Program in relation to competition, consumer trust and consumer…
ICANN today (23/12) published the Phase 2 report of the WHOIS Accuracy Reporting System (ARS), which acts as a follow-on to the Phase 1 report published in August 2015. During…
Purpose (Brief): The cross-community Geographic Regions Review Working Group has produced its Final Report in which it proposes a series of recommendations regarding the ongoing application of the organization’s geographic…
ICANN is pleased to announce the formation of the Generation Panel to develop Root Zone Label Generation Rules (LGR) for the Ethiopic script.
The total number of domain name registrations around the world reached 299 million at the end of September according to the latest Verisign Domain Name Industry Brief, an increase of…
From April 2016, the Austrian registry will begin a process for the release of one and two character .at domains, with 5,000 domains becoming available using letters, numbers and special…
The .bank gTLD continues to get traction with the banking community having reached 5,165 registrations from banks within the United States from 2,534 banks and 560 registrations from banks outside…
A couple of private sales topped the Domain Name Journal chart of top reported sales for the week ending 15 November with 8181.com selling for $225,000 and then fzd.com next,…
ICANN‘s Nominating Committee (NomCom) invites interested individuals to submit applications and/or to recommend candidates for ICANN‘s key leadership positions. Applications are invited for the following positions:
[news release] Today, ICANN announced that 94 percent of IANA functions customers surveyed reported being “satisfied” or “very satisfied” with services they received between September 2014 and August 2015. This…
ICANN today announced that it has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with MFSD Srl (MFSD) establishing MFSD as a new Uniform Rapid Suspension System (URS) provider. The URS is…