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In a few years, you’ll no longer than to live in the European Union in order to buy a .eu domain name. Residency requirements are to be dropped under new regulations approved by the European Parliament, Council and European Commission last week. ...
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December 10, 2018 Kevin Murphy
.eu, Domain Registries, eurid
DNS inventor Paul Mockapetris has endorsed MMX’s foray into the blockchain as “the first genuine piece of DNS related innovation that I have seen in the last decade”. The quote came in an MMX press release this morning, which provided...
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December 10, 2018 Kevin Murphy
.luxe, Blockchain, Domain Registries, Ethereum, imtoken, mmx
Afilias has taken ICANN to arbitration to prevent .web being delegated to Verisign. The company, which came second in the $135 million auction that Verisign won in 2016, filed Independent Review Process documents in late November. The upshot of the fil...
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December 6, 2018 Kevin Murphy
Domain Registries, irp, ndc, nu dot co
Donuts alumnus Jon Nevett has been named the new CEO of Public Interest Registry. Non-profit PIR, which runs .org and related gTLDs, said he will start in the role December 17. Nevett was most recently executive VP at Donuts, the new gTLD registry he c...
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December 6, 2018 Kevin Murphy
abry, Domain Registries
The tiny Pacific island of Niue has sued the Swedish ccTLD registry to gain control of its own ccTLD, .nu, DI has learned. The lawsuit, filed this week in Stockholm, claims that the Internet Foundation In Sweden (IIS) acted illegally when it essentiall...
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November 28, 2018 Kevin Murphy
.nu, .SE, Domain Registries, IANA, iis, iusn foundation, niue, one.com, postel, redelegation, worldnames
.cloud, run by Italian registry Aruba, has become the latest TLD to get the official nod to sell in China. The blessing from the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology came at the end of October and the company announced it today. The accredit...
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November 26, 2018 Kevin Murphy
aruba, Domain Registries, miit
Donuts has finally admitted defeat in its long-running fight to run the .spa gTLD, withdrawing its application and leaving rival Asia Spa and Wellness Promotion Council the victor. ASWPC, run from Hong Kong by .asia’s Edmon Chung, has now entered...
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November 26, 2018 Kevin Murphy
.spa, Asia Spa and Wellness Promotion Council, aswpc, Belgium, cep, cpe, Domain Registries, irp
The Internet Commerce Association has asked ICANN to refuse to allow Verisign to raise its wholesale prices for .com domain names. The domainer trade group wrote to ICANN last week to point out that just because the Trump administration has dropped the...
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November 21, 2018 Kevin Murphy
Domain Registries, NTIA
The number of .uk domains suspended by Nominet has doubled over the last year, almost entirely due to takedown requests concerning intellectual property. The .uk registry said this week that it suspended 32,813 domains in the 12 months to October 31, u...
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November 21, 2018 Kevin Murphy
.UK, censorship, Domain Registries, piracy, suspensions
Incels.me, a web forum that hosts misogynist rants by “involuntarily celibate” men, has found a new home after .me registry doMEn suspended its domain. The web site has reappeared, apparently unscathed, under Iceland’s .is domain, at ...
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November 21, 2018 Kevin Murphy
censorship, Domain Registries, domen, hate speech, incels.me