Verisign announced their response to COVID-19 (coronavirus) Wednesday with the two main initiatives for those outside the organisation being a freezing of the registry fee for all their top-level domains,…
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Brief Overview Purpose: This Public Comment proceeding seeks to obtain input on the Phase 1 Initial Report of the Review of All Rights Protection Mechanisms (RPMs) in All gTLDs Policy…
Verisign’s latest Domain Name Industry Brief shows that 2019 closed with 362.3 million domain name registrations across all top-level domains (TLDs), an increase of 2.4 million domain name registrations, or…
Radix, operator of 10 new gTLDs with 5.8 million domains under management, the second largest DUM of all new gTLD registries, grossed over $21 million in revenue in 2019, which…
Donuts Inc., the largest manager of new gTLDs by far with 238 new gTLDs, and the third largest by total domains with 4.3 million domains under management, has appointed Mina…
Top-level domains, both generic and country code, are facing challenges in recent years for many, with growth either plateauing or declining. The one big exception of course is .com that…
Dismay at the time it’s taking for ICANN to launch a new round of new gTLD applications is an underlying theme for Jovenet Consulting’s Jean Guillon in today’s Domain Pulse…
2020 is going to be a big year in the .nz domain name space. InternetNZ has a lot of activities on the go, from their registry replacement project, working with…
Chris Disspain Looks At The Highlights of 2019 And What His Final Year On The ICANN Board Might Hold
In the latest Domain Pulse Q&A series looking at the year in review and year ahead, we speak to ICANN board member Chris Disspain. Chris discusses the progress of the…
The Internet Commerce Association has developed a tool to make it easy for those opposed to any increase in the .com registry fee to voice their disapproval. On 3 January…
What happens when a Brand changes its company name, which has a .brand new gTLD, such as through a takeover, merger or just a name change? There’s currently no quick…
The XYZ Registry announced this week they’ve acquired 5 more new gTLDs taking their tally of new gTLDs to 17. These 5 new gTLDs will become available to the public…
Radix sold premium domain names in their new gTLDs to the value of $1.657 million in the second half of 2019, an increase of 22% on the previous 6 months…
Criminal activities continue to be an issue and challenge for the domain name industry, and it’s one of the main issues addressed in today’s Q&A with Katrin Ohlmer, CEO and…
Donuts and the United Federation of Travel Agents’ Associations (UFTAA) have announced a new partnership to include the long underperforming .travel gTLD as an additional benefit for its members and…