ICANN has finally been able to delegate the .africa new gTLD to ZA Central Registry following the rejection of a request for a preliminary injunction brought in a Los Angeles…
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Monthly Archives: February 2017
The number of .nl (Netherlands) domain names protected by DNSSEC is approaching half (46%) of all registrations, but there are two sectors in particular that are lagging according to a…
All gTLD registries will soon be required to update their registration data directory services to comply with ICANN’s Thick Whois Transition Policy, a policy that already applies to .com, .net…
The .NYC Fashion Week premium domain name auction is into its final hours with all but 4 of the 24 domains up for grabs meeting their reserve and also having…
It’s been a healthy end to 2016 and start to 2017 for domain name sales with there being two 6-figure sales in each of the latest 3 fortnightly sales charts….
The total number of phishing attacks in 2016 was 1,220,523, a 65% increase over 2015, according to the latest Phishing Trends Report for Q4 2016 from the Anti-Phishing Working Group…
The first Domain Name Journal chart of top reported sales for 2017 was much the same as the final one for 2016 – a pair of six-figure domain name sales…
León Felipe Sánchez Ambía has been selected by At-Large Community for the ICANN Board Director seat (#15) as the successor of Rinalia Abdul Rahm, and will begin his three-year term…
The Chinese domain name market is one of huge untapped potential Ray Zheng of the Shanghai Racent Internet Group said at the recent Domain Pulse conference in Vienna. There are…
ICANN today published the Revised Report of the Independent Review of the Trademark Clearinghouse.
ICANN is seeking volunteers to serve on the second review of Registration Directory Service (formerly known as the WHOIS Review). Interested individuals are invited to provide the following information, in the template [PDF, 2.7 MB]…
There were calls for the world’s Least Developed Countries, particularly those in Africa, to be given more access to input into ICANN’s policy making processes at the Domain Pulse conference…
Brief Overview Purpose: This Public Comment seeks community input on the CCWG-Accountability Work Stream 2 draft recommendations to improve ICANN‘s transparency. These draft recommendations were developed by the CCWG-Accountability as…
The Policy Development Support Team is pleased to announce two sessions of the Pre-ICANN58 Policy Open House on Monday, 6 March 2017 at 10:00 UTC and 19:00 UTC.
Domain name registrations are in a state of flux around the world. While registrations in the more than 1,200 new generic Top Level Domains (gTLDs) continue to grow strongly, registrations…