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Google Registry is to launch its .meet gTLD next week with a sunrise period for trademark owners, but, perhaps controversially, it intends to keep the rest of the domains for itself. It is expected that the company plans to use .meet domains in its Goo...
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May 18, 2020 Kevin Murphy
Domain Registries, google registry, rocc, spec 13, spec 9, trademark claims
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
When ICANN announced its decision to deny Public Interest Registry’s request to be acquired by Ethos Capital at the end of April, I felt a little foolish. I’d confidently predicted just days earlier that the decision by the board would not ...
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May 13, 2020 Kevin Murphy
Domain Registries, ethos, isoc, transparency
Public Interest Registry has formally announced that its proposed $1.13 billion acquisition by Ethos Capital is dead. The company told ICANN yesterday that it is withdrawing its request for a change of control under its .org contract and that it “...
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May 13, 2020 Kevin Murphy
Domain Registries, ethos, isoc, public interest registry
Afilias-owned Monolith Registry, which runs .vote and .voto, has launched a site designed to help US citizens figure out how — or if — they’re able to vote by mail during the coronavirus outbreak. The site, at mailyourballot.vote, com...
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May 6, 2020 Kevin Murphy
.voto, Domain Registries, monolith
Brexit may have been pounding EURid’s domain base for the last few years, but .eu domains recovered a little in the first quarter due to promotional activity in Portugal. The UK left the European Union on January 31, and Brits will lose their rig...
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May 6, 2020 Kevin Murphy
.eu, Brexit, Domain Registries, eurid
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
The Internet Society has revealed that the .org registry operator PIR is no longer for sale. The news came in a statement from ISOC chair Andrew Sullivan late Friday, less than 24 hours after ICANN withheld its consent for the proposed $1.13 billion ac...
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May 4, 2020 Kevin Murphy
ccor, Domain Registries, ethos, isoc
In a decision that will shock many, ICANN won’t let Ethos Capital buy Public Interest Registry from the Internet Society. Its board of directors yesterday voted to reject PIR’s request for a change of control of the .org contract, saying th...
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May 1, 2020 Kevin Murphy
Domain Registries, ethos, isoc
Radix (an advertiser here) is temporarily waiving the restore fee on all their strings. This is being supported by 75 registrars who have enrolled in the program. Here is the full release In an effort to reduce customer burden on domain-related spendin...
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April 28, 2020 Raymond Hackney
Domain Registries