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European registrar One.com says it is now the biggest player in the Danish market after acquiring rival Larsen Data, which does business as GratisDNS, for an undisclosed sum. One.com says that the deal means it now sponsors over 400,000 of the 1.3 mill...
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July 14, 2020 Kevin Murphy
coronavirus, Domain Registrars, gratisdns, Larsen, one.com
Indian new gTLD applicant Nameshop, which still refuses to accept defeat eight years after its application for .idn was rejected, has a new coronavirus-related pitch to try to persuade ICANN to please, please, give it a gTLD. You may recall that this c...
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June 29, 2020 Kevin Murphy
coronavirus, covid-19, Domain Policy, nameshop
There have been hundreds of thousands of domains that appear to refer to coronavirus registered since the start of the outbreak, but the domain industry reckons only a tiny portion of them have been used maliciously. Speaking on a recent webinar, ICANN...
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June 23, 2020 Kevin Murphy
coronavirus, covid-19, Domain Registrars
ICANN is saving millions this year due to the coronavirus-related shift to online-only public meetings. But it’s thinking about using some of the cash to do things like pay for broadband upgrades and hotel rooms for some of its community voluntee...
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June 21, 2020 Kevin Murphy
coronavirus, covid-19, Domain Policy, icann 68, zoom
Surprisingly, ICANN’s decision last week to cancel its Hamburg annual general meeting in favor of Zoom did not receive the unanimous support of its board of directors. Two directors — Ihab Osman and Ron da Silva — voted against the ma...
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June 19, 2020 Kevin Murphy
.hamburg, coronavirus, covid-19, Domain Policy, icann 69, zoom
ICANN’s board of directors is meeting this week to discuss arrangements for ICANN 69, and I think there’s a reasonable chance it will decide to take the meeting online-only. The last official word from ICANN was that it is working on the as...
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June 8, 2020 Kevin Murphy
.hamburg, coronavirus, covid-19, Domain Policy, icann 69
Verisign has decided to extend the temporary fee waiver it introduced in April for another two months, declaring the scheme a success so far. On April 2, the company said it would no longer charge a fee when a registrant restores a domain in the period...
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May 29, 2020 Kevin Murphy
coronavirus, Domain Registries, restore
Australia’s .au ccTLD may have been in decline recently, but it saw a surge in new domain registrations during its coronavirus lockdown, according to registry stats. auDA said that 48,754 new .au domains were registered in April, a more than 23% ...
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May 18, 2020 Kevin Murphy
.au, auda, coronavirus, Domain Registries, Lockdown
Joe Colalillo, CEO of Wakefern Food Corporation, which owns and operates over 300 ShopRite stores, tells TODAY’s Sheinelle Jones about EssentialThanks.com, their new website for customers to express their gratitude to ShopRites essential workers. Plus ...
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May 12, 2020 The Frager Factor
coronavirus, covid19, essential workers, shoprite. essential thanks (.com)
The Portuguese ccTLD operator has become the latest registry to say that it is still seeing growth despite the coronavirus pandemic. Associação DNS.PT recently said (via Google Translate) that “the registration in .pt is increasing considerably, ...
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May 6, 2020 Kevin Murphy
coronavirus, covid-19, dns.pt, Domain Registries