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Nominet has named the first six members of UK Registrar Advisory Council, and I think it’s fair to say there’s a definite tilt towards the grassroots/activist end of the ballot. Major registrars Tucows, Markmonitor and Web.com (Newfold Digi...
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July 26, 2021 Kevin Murphy
.UK, Domain Registries
Nominet has named its new chair as former BT Openworld CEO Andy Green, who has already laid out a suite of measures — including more blood on the boardroom floor — to address the barrage of criticisms from members who ousted his predecessor...
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July 26, 2021 Kevin Murphy
.UK, Domain Registries
Public Interest Registry is planning support for seven more languages in the .org gTLD. The company has asked ICANN for permission to support seven additional internationalized domain name scripts: Croatian, Finnish, Hindi, Italian, Montenegrin, Portug...
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July 15, 2021 Kevin Murphy
Domain Registries, public interest registry, rsep
New gTLD registry MMX expects to shortly offload most of its portfolio of strings to GoDaddy Registry after receiving ICANN approvals. The company said today that its transfer requests for four of its gTLD contracts have received full ICANN approval. A...
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July 15, 2021 Kevin Murphy
assignments, Domain Registries, mmx
ICANN may have a reputation for trying to slice itself a bigger slice of the pie whenever it renegotiates a new gTLD contract, but that doesn’t appear to be the case this week. The .aero registry, which has been running for 20 years, looks set to...
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July 8, 2021 Kevin Murphy
.aero, Domain Registries, sponsored
Nominet has opened up the voting for its inaugural UK Registrar Advisory Council, and there’s at least one eyebrow-raising candidate. Peter Sunde, who founded the Pirate Bay file-sharing web site and served time for copyright infringement, has pu...
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July 6, 2021 Kevin Murphy
.UK, Domain Registries, ukrac
XYZ.com has just formally announced the acquisition of the new gTLD .tickets, which we reported on in April. The company said it plans to keep the domains at the current high price of $500 retail per year, in contrast to its recent practice of dropping...
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July 6, 2021 Kevin Murphy
Domain Registries, xyz.com
.eu registry EURid said today that it’s broadening the eligibility criteria for registrants to ex-pats from three countries. The rule change means that if you’re a citizen of Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein but do not live in those countri...
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July 6, 2021 Kevin Murphy
.eu, Domain Registries, eurid
Nominet is to make up to £600,000 ($830,000) a year available to charities nominated by its members. The upcoming GiveHub platform comes as part of the .uk registry’s ongoing effort to appease members who believe the company has not being doing e...
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July 6, 2021 Kevin Murphy
.UK, Domain Registries
June may be celebrated as Pride Month in some parts of the world, but the occasion hasn’t had a huge impact on registrations in the .gay gTLD, which launched late last year. Zone files show 11,323 active .gay domains yesterday, up by 723 compared...
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June 28, 2021 Kevin Murphy
.gay, Domain Registries, pride, top level design