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The Colombian government has come under fire for opening up the .co registry contract for rebid in a way that seems predetermined to pick Afilias as the winner, displacing its fierce rival Neustar. As I blogged in November, Colombia thinks it might be ...
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January 17, 2020 Kevin Murphy
.co internet, activity reports, back-end, Domain Registries, mintic, rfp
Australian ccTLD manager auDA has named its next CEO: Rosemary Sinclair, current CEO of Energy Consumers Australia. She’ll join the organization in March, about nine months after the last guy, Cameron Boardman, quit after enduring three years of ...
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January 14, 2020 Kevin Murphy
auda, Domain Registries
The long-fought, once-controversial gTLD .gay is to launch a month from now. Top Level Design, which won the string at auction against three other applicants last February, this week informed registrars that its sunrise period will begin February 10 th...
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January 10, 2020 Kevin Murphy
.gay, centerlink, Domain Registries, eap, glaad, premiums, top level design
Verisign is to get the right to raise the price of .com domains by 7% per year, under a new contract with ICANN. The deal, announced this hour, will also see Verisign pay ICANN $20 million over five years, starting in 2021, “to support ICANN̵...
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January 3, 2020 Kevin Murphy
abuse, consolidate, Domain Registries, pics, registry agreement
Two of Public Interest Registry’s top geeks have come out swinging against recent claims that .org will suffer days of downtime if PIR is acquired by Ethos Capital. Chief technology officer Joe Abley and Susanne Woolf, senior director of technolo...
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December 30, 2019 Kevin Murphy
Domain Registries, ethos, packet clearing house, pch
.org domains will not suffer downtime as a result of Ethos Capital’s acquisition of Public Interest Registry, according to Afilias. Afilias, which provides PIR’s back-end registry services, wrote to ICANN (pdf) last week to reject claims by...
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December 23, 2019 Kevin Murphy
Domain Registries, ethos
The domain name industry grew by 5.1 million names in the third quarter, according to the latest Domain Name Industry Brief from Verisign. September ended with 359.8 million names across the board, the DNIB (pdf) shows. Half of the growth came from Tok...
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December 20, 2019 Kevin Murphy
.tk, .tw, dnib, Domain Registries, ICU, Versign
The Uniform Rapid Suspension process is to stay in .org, after the ICANN board of directors rejected an appeal from the Electronic Frontier Foundation. The EFF had challenged the inclusion of URS in the recently renegotiated .org Registry Agreement, on...
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December 18, 2019 Kevin Murphy
Domain Registries, ethos, isoc, reconsideration, rfr, URS
ICANN’s non-commercial stakeholders have “demanded” changes to Public Interest Registry’s .org contract, to protect registrants for the next couple of decades. The NCSG sent a letter to ICANN chair Maarten Botterman this week wh...
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December 12, 2019 Kevin Murphy
Domain Registries, eff, ethos, isoc, ncsg, price caps, renewal
As the debate about the sale by the Internet Society of .org registry PIR to a private equity company passionately continues, one reason put forward to defend the deal doesn’t appear to have been given much attention: it seems ISOC doesn’t ...
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December 4, 2019 Kevin Murphy
.irg, Domain Registries, Ethos Capital, isoc