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Verisign made an interesting video on how the Domain Name System (DNS) infrastructure works. It is mostly directed to a novice level but it is quite interesting to watch. It is meant to be a Verisign marketing video as you can tell from the video descr...
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September 21, 2018 Konstantinos Zournas
domain extensions, Domain Name News
.CHARITY domains, a Donuts Inc. new extension, entered general availability yesterday. According to Namestat.org there are 839 .charity domains registered today. There were 307 before general availability started including some registry domains, sunris...
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September 20, 2018 Konstantinos Zournas
Domain Name News
Afilias Australia Pty Ltd announced today that it has set the GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS title for Largest migration of an internet top-level domain in a single transition following its transfer of 3,153,979 .au domain names on Sunday, July 1, 2018. GUINNE...
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September 18, 2018 Konstantinos Zournas
Domain Name News
George Nagy replaced Rob Monster as the Digital Town CEO. The change was made last Friday, September 14. Rob Monster stepped down as CEO, and also off of the Board of Directors of Digital Town. Rob Monster said to OnlineDomain.com: “I have steppe...
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September 17, 2018 Konstantinos Zournas
Domain Name News
The Forum (previously known as the National Arbitration Forum), one of the five ICANN approved domain name dispute resolution service providers, announced today that is has added a few new FAQs regarding GDPR and other privacy laws have and will contin...
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September 12, 2018 Konstantinos Zournas
Domain Name News
Donuts Inc. today announced that it has entered into an agreement to be acquired by Abry Partners, a leading private equity firm. Terms and timing of the agreement were not disclosed. Donuts holds the world’s largest portfolio of new top-level domains ...
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September 5, 2018 Konstantinos Zournas
Domain Name News
GMO Registry announced that .tokyo (https://hello.tokyo/en), the Top Level Domain (hereafter “TLD”) representing Tokyo, the capital city of Japan, reached 100,000 domain names. This milestone comes just over 4 years since .tokyo opened for business in ...
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August 27, 2018 Konstantinos Zournas
Domain Name News
Paul Keating sent a letter to the ICANN board of directors about the issue of “IGO-INGO access to curative rights protection mechanisms (PDP)”. Paul Keating is a very well known lawyer in the domain name industry offering “Internation...
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August 23, 2018 Konstantinos Zournas
Domain Name News
Göran Marby, ICANN President and CEO, wrote a blog post about a possible unified access model that was published by ICANN for community input. I don’t see much progress from ICANN since May that GDPR went into full effect and I don’t expect...
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August 21, 2018 Konstantinos Zournas
Domain Name News
Inc. magazine revealed that Fort Lauderdale based .CLUB Domains, LLC is No. 1164 on its 37th annual Inc. 5000, the most prestigious ranking of the nation’s fastest-growing private companies. The list represents a unique look at the most successful comp...
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August 21, 2018 Konstantinos Zournas
Domain Name News