The announcement in mid-November that Ethos Capital, a private equity company, had bought Public Interest Registry from the Internet Society has caused some outrage from sections of the internet community…
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generic top level domains
It was about 14 November when .icu rocketed to number on the new gTLD charts, soaring past the previous number one, .top. .icu had been on a charge in the…
Last Day To Apply For .CAT Discount Renewal Code As 1 and 2 Character Priority Registration Underway
To celebrate Catalonia’s National Day, puntCAT is offering discount codes to renew .cat domains, but the last day to apply for a discount code is today, 18 November, with codes…
Domain names entirely in Greek script are now available from the .eu registry, EURid, with the launch this week of .ευ. .ευ is the third top-level domain launched by EURid…
Neustar is one of the world’s leading companies when it comes to domain names. Providers of security services that protects brands around the world, providing ads and providing backend registry…
A post on the Afnic blog this week is intended to give food for thought on what makes up a successful top-level domain, suggesting one way could be via the…
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…
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…