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The UK’s health regulator is going to be added to a Nominet pilot program enabling the speedy takedown of suspected criminal .uk domains next year, according to the registry. The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency will become the...
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November 24, 2020 Kevin Murphy
coronavirus, Domain Registries, mhra, pandemic, pipcu, takedown, vaccines
Verisign has posted third-quarter financial results that were strong in spite of, or possibly due to, the economic impact of the coronovirus pandemic. The company sold 10.9 million new .com and .net domains in the quarter to September 30, a million mor...
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October 26, 2020 Kevin Murphy
coronavirus, Domain Registries, lockdown bump, versigin
President Donald Trump has leaked the CBS 60 Minutes interview footage – all 38 minutes of it – claiming that its “tough questions” were not originally agreed upon. Trump was interviewed by correspondent Lesley Stahl, who conduc...
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October 22, 2020 DomainGang
CBS 60 minutes, CBS interview, coronavirus, donald trump, Lesley Stahl, namefind, political domains, tough questions, ToughQuestions.com
The domain FlattenTheCurve.com was registered in March by a domain aficionado, who actually developed their important registration into an aid against Covid19. Sean Markey witnessed his newly registered domain go viral, getting over one million page vi...
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September 16, 2020 DomainGang
coronavirus, covid19, flatten the curve, FlattenTheCurve.com
New gTLD registry Radix made almost a million bucks in the first half of the year from renewal fees on its premium domains. That’s one data point that jumps out from Radix’s latest premium sales report, released last night. The company said...
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September 8, 2020 Kevin Murphy
coronavirus, premiums
ICANN is to seriously consider requests that community volunteers should have their broadband costs subsidized out of the ICANN budget. On Thursday, its board of directors will meet to discuss what it’s calling the “ICANN Pandemic Internet ...
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August 25, 2020 Kevin Murphy
coronavirus, Domain Policy, reimbursement
GoDaddy and Tucows, the industry’s two largest registrars, both last week posted very strong second-quarter results due to the beneficial impact of the coronavirus lockdown. Market-leader GoDaddy in particular seems to have knocked it out of the ...
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August 11, 2020 Kevin Murphy
coronavirus, covid-19, Domain Registrars, Lockdown, Tucows
.com and .net saw decent growth in the lockdown-dominated second quarter, despite Verisign reporting the lowest renewal rate since 2017. The company last night reported that is sold more new domains in Q2 than it did in the same period last year —...
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July 24, 2020 Kevin Murphy
coronavirus, Domain Registries, versigin
ICANN is still in the dark about how the coronavirus pandemic is going to affect the domain industry’s fortunes and its own budget, judging by a blog post published overnight by CEO Göran Marby. In the post, Marby outlined his 10 priorities (six ...
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July 21, 2020 Kevin Murphy
coronavirus, Domain Policy
Endurance International Group added its name to the list of registrars to see a lift from the coronavirus pandemic in the second quarter. The company, which counts brands including Domain.com, BuyDomains and ResellerClub in its stable, this week upgrad...
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July 16, 2020 Kevin Murphy
coronavirus, Domain Registrars