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Nominet has responded to criticism of its plans to introduce registry-level .uk drop auctions by saying it’s not about money-grabbing and is not guaranteed to even happen. Registry MD Eleanor Bradley today blogged: In some quarters the commentary...
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July 29, 2020 Kevin Murphy
.UK, Domain Registries, drop catching
A group of Nominet members and registrars have launched a petition to prevent Nominet from introducing registry-level auctions for dropping .uk domain names. The petition, organized by Netistrar, reads: “We the undersigned members request that No...
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July 28, 2020 Kevin Murphy
.UK, Domain Registries, drop catching
Afilias is to get its day in “court” to decide the fate of the .web gTLD just 10 days from now. The registry is due to face off with ICANN before an Independent Review Process panel in a series of virtual hearings beginning August 3. The IR...
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July 24, 2020 Kevin Murphy
Domain Registries, ndc
.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
After many months of pre-launch registration periods, Google has taken its .new gTLD to general availability today. Names in .new are not cheap, have strict usage restrictions, and are not available at most of the larger registrars. You may recall that...
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July 21, 2020 Kevin Murphy
Domain Registries
Bucking the worldwide trend for major ccTLDs to simplify their namespaces, Brazil is poised to launch another dozen new third-level domain options. NIC.br said last week that it will launch five open spaces and seven more dedicated to specific professi...
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July 16, 2020 Kevin Murphy
.br, Domain Registries, nic.br
Nominet has revealed a sweeping set of policy proposals that would totally revamp how expired domains are deleted and could essentially kill off drop-catching in the .uk domains market. The company is thinking about auctioning off expired domains at th...
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July 16, 2020 Kevin Murphy
.UK, Domain Registries, drop catching, expired
Google has lost control of a key domain name, breaking millions of URLs used by its customers. It emerged today that the domain blogspot.in expired in May and was deleted around June 24. It was promptly re-registered via a non-ICANN registrar based in ...
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July 8, 2020 Kevin Murphy
blogspot, Domain Registries, domainming, expiration, MarkMonitor
A further three new gTLDs have applied to ICANN for self-termination over the last few months, bringing the total to 76. They’re all dot-brands: .sbs, .rightathome and .symantec. The most recent application came from the Australian broadcaster SB...
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June 17, 2020 Kevin Murphy
.RIGHTATHOME, .sbs, Domain Registries, dot-brands, Symantec
Donuts is offering registrants of domains in its suite of new gTLDs free protection from homograph-based phishing attacks. These are the attacks where a a bad guy registers a domain name visually similar or identical to an existing domain, with one or ...
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June 16, 2020 Kevin Murphy
Domain Registries, dpml, homographs, phishing, truenames