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Donuts has lost a legal appeal against ICANN in its fight to prevent Verisign running the .web gTLD. A California court ruled yesterday that a lower court was correct when it ruled almost two years ago that Donuts had signed away its right to sue ICANN...
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October 16, 2018 Kevin Murphy
cep, Domain Registries, irp, last resort, ndc, nu dot co, ruby glen
Google has retreated from the interminable three-way battle for the .kids/.kid gTLDs. The company this week withdrew its application for .kid, leaving the fight for .kids a two-horse race between Amazon and the not-for-profit DotKids Foundation. Google...
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October 10, 2018 Kevin Murphy
Domain Registries, dotkids, string confusion objection, withdrawal
Akram Atallah, head of ICANN’s Global Domains Division, has quit and joined Donuts as its new CEO, DI has learned. According to multiple sources, Atallah’s last day at ICANN was yesterday. While neither company has announced the move yet, I...
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October 9, 2018 Kevin Murphy
Domain Registries
UK ccTLD registry Nominet said today that it will donate £1 ($1.31) for every domain registered to the charity Children In Need. The initiative, which runs from today until November 19, is being backed up with a £200,000 ($261,000) minimum donation com...
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October 8, 2018 Kevin Murphy
.UK, children in need, Domain Registries
CentralNic has acquired the flailing new gTLD .fans for an undisclosed sum. The value of the deal was low enough that publicly traded CentralNic was not obliged to disclose the purchase to the market, CEO Ben Crawford confirmed. The ICANN contract seem...
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October 8, 2018 Kevin Murphy
Domain Registries
The Brazilian ccTLD, .br, last week topped four million registrations for the first time, then promptly dropped back below the milestone. The TLD was at 4,000,260 domains on Monday September 24, prompting a press release from Nic.br, dropping back belo...
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October 3, 2018 Kevin Murphy
.br, Domain Registries, nic.br
MMX’s revenue from domain renewals could cover all of its expenses within the next 24 months, if everything goes to plan, according to CEO Toby Hall. Hall was speaking to DI this evening after the company reported its first-half financial results...
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September 26, 2018 Kevin Murphy
.london, .vip, Domain Registries, financials, icm registry, Minds + Machines, mmx, renewals
.CLUB Domains has seen the amount of spam in .club double a month after seeing a huge registration spike prompted by a deep discount deal. The registry saw its domains under management go up by about 200,000 names over a few days in early August, large...
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September 11, 2018 Kevin Murphy
.club domains, Domain Registries, Spam, Spamhaus
Donuts is to be bought by a private equity firm that has a former ICANN CEO as a partner. The company, which holds the largest portfolio of new gTLDs, has agreed to be acquired by Boston-based private equity firm Abry Partners for an undisclosed sum. N...
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September 5, 2018 Kevin Murphy
abry partners, Domain Registries
Afilias has changed its corporate structure and is now officially based in the United States. A new holding company, Afilias Inc, has been created in Delaware. It now owns Afilias Plc, the Ireland-based company that has been until now the parent of the...
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August 31, 2018 Kevin Murphy
Domain Registries