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EURid saw about 6,000 .eu domain names that formerly belonged to Brits re-registered in the first day after a mass delete at the start of the month. “Around 6000 Brexit-related domain names were re-registered during the first day, and around 6500 as of today,” a registry spokesperson said. EURid had released around 48,000 domains in […]
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Altanovo Domains’ fight with Verisign and ICANN for the .web gTLD is not over, despite an adverse ruling late last month, according to a top lawyer for the company. Altanovo, the company previously known as Afilias Domains No 3, has not thrown in the towel and left the path clear for Verisign to launch .web, […]
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Some of XYZ’s top executives have agreed to pay $1.5 million to settle a US Federal Trade Commission lawsuit alleging they “deceptively” harvested vast amounts of personal data on millions of people and sold it “indiscriminately” to third parties including potential scammers and identity thieves. The FTC says that the execs, through a network of […]
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MMX, the new gTLD registry also known as Minds + Machines, has decided to close down and de-list. The company said today that it plans to return its remaining cash to investors through a tender offer and then cancel its remaining shares, which are listed on London’s Alternative Investment Market. The cancellation plan is subject […]
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India, a country with some 2.2 million ccTLD domains, has implemented perhaps the strangest and most Draconian restrictions on bulk registration of modern times. The local registry, NIXI, informed its registrars all over the world in late December that they will have to seek formal written permission directly from the CEO if a customer wishes […]
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ICANN is objecting to the transfer of 23 new gTLDs from UNR to an unknown number of third parties, because it’s scared that the associated non-fungible tokens may break the internet and its own authority over it. The mystery of how UNR’s auction in April of its entire new gTLD portfolio has so far not […]
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ICANN and GoDaddy seem to have missed their deadline for long-term renewal of their .xxx registry agreement for a second time. The contract was extended earlier this week until December 15, 2022, giving the parties another full year to bash out whatever amendments are needed. The initial deal, signed in 2011, was due to expire […]
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GoDaddy is taking over the contract to run .tv from Verisign, after Verisign didn’t even bother to bid for renewal. The deal brings to an end a relationship between Verisign and the tiny Pacific island nation of Tuvalu that has lasted 20 years and contributed millions to the country’s economy. The country’s communications ministry said […]
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EURid’s long-serving CEO is leaving and the company has started looking for someone to fill the role. A spokesperson for the .eu registry told DI this morning that Marc Van Wesemael is planning to retire after his replacement is found, which should be a matter of months. Van Wesemael has been CEO (general manager) of […]
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The industry’s most lucrative back-end registry services contract will be rebid, Public Interest Registry said today. The deal, which sees PIR pay Afilias $18.3 million a year to run .org, according to tax records, will see a request for proposals issued in the back half of 2023, according to PIR. Given that’s two years away, […]
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