Spamhaus released their quarterly Botnet Threat Update for the third quarter of 2019 and almost half of the TLDs in their top 20 “most abused top-level domains” were within ccTLD…
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On the same day that Google is making their big announcement of new and updated products, their Google Registry, aka Charleston Road Registry, is launching the Sunrise period for their…
Radix, the largest of the new gTLD registries by domains under management with over 5.1 million domain names, has added .uno to its portfolio taking its tally to 10 new…
The .bond new gTLD, originally applied for by the Australian Bond University, but now owned by the operators of .icu, ShortDot SA, is gearing up for a launch with Sunrise…
Hurricane Dorian, the most powerful tropical cyclone ever recorded that destroyed parts of the Bahamas, featured prominently on the Verisign list of top 10 trending keywords in English for the…
Radix, the company behind the .tech new gTLD, announced recently that at least 170 start-ups using .tech domain names have raised over $2 billion in venture capital funding between 2017…
It’s been a year in the making, and now Public Interest Registry has rebranded as The New .ORG, giving it a fresh new look “with a new, bold visual identity.”…
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…
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…
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…
WIPO have announced that as of 1 August they began providing domain name dispute resolution services for .CN and .中国 (China). In their announcement, the World Intellectual Property Organization note…
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…
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…
Colombia’s ccTLD has been around a lot longer than 9 years, but 9 years ago when there were only 28,000 .co domain names, all of them registered within Colombia, there…
Minds + Machines Group (MMX) released its half yearly trading results to 30 June last week. In the first half of 2019m MMX reported a healthy year-on-year growth in registrations,…