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…
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generic top level domains
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,…
Public Interest Registry published their 2018 annual report Thursday, highlighting what for them was a “solid year for .org, from exceeding financial goals to continuing to grow a strong user…
In 2018 Afnic, best known as the registry operator for France’s ccTLD .fr, was designated by the Paris-based International Council of Museums (ICOM) as the backend registry provider for .museum….
Facebook’s announcement of their new Libra cryptocurrency in mid-June had a big impact on .com and .net domain name registrations with “libra” topping the top 10 trending keywords in English…
MMX is to launch a new blocking service that will allow trademark holders to better protect their naming rights across the four adult-themed generic top-level domains (gTLDs) they acquired in…
Dot Vegas is releasing 2,200 previously blocked .vegas domain names from 1 August. The registry says that the domain names will be released “in an ongoing effort to increase awareness…
Afilias announced Monday it was acquiring the .global new gTLD from Cloud Names to add to its stable. It will be Afilias’ 22nd new gTLD and add 48,650 domain names…
The .club registry has reduced the prices of some of their premium domain names, part of their twice a year adjustments to their premium domain name inventory available through registrars….
This article by Professor Christine Haight Farley originally published in the Akron Law Review anticipates doctrinal disorder in domain name disputes as a result of the new generic top-level domains…
The .ORG Impact Awards is Now Accepting Nominations from Nonprofits, Corporations, Community Groups and More [news release] In celebration of organizations using the Internet to empower change around the world,…
Domain name registrations continue to grow around the world, growing by 18.0 million or 5.4% in the year to the end of March 2019 and 3.1 million or 0.9% for…
The presidents of Peru, Colombia, Ecuador and Bolivia have expressed their “deep concern” over ICANN’s recent decision to continue processing Amazon’s application for the .amazon top-level domain. At their board…