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Australian ccTLD manager auDA has lost its chair, again. Chris Leptos quit abruptly, for undisclosed reasons, earlier this week. He’d been in the job since November 2017, when he replaced Stuart Benjamin, who had resigned shortly before facing a ...
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June 19, 2019 Kevin Murphy
.au, auda, Domain Registries
We won’t be seeing .gay on the internet this year. Top Level Design has postponed the release of its hard-won gTLD until the second quarter of 2020, having recently said it was planning an October 2019 launch. The company told registrars yesterda...
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June 18, 2019 Kevin Murphy
.gay, Domain Registries, top level design
The registry behind .wang and several Chinese-language gTLDs has seen its official registry web site blocked due to Chinese regulations. Zodiac Registry, which also runs .商城, .八卦 and .网店 (“mail”, “gossip” and “shop”)...
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June 11, 2019 Kevin Murphy
Domain Registries, icp license, miit, Wang, zodiac registry
With many ccTLD operators recently reporting stagnant growth or shrinkage, one registry has performed stunningly well over the last year. Sadly, it bears the hallmarks of another speculative bubble originating in China. Verisign’s latest Domain N...
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June 10, 2019 Kevin Murphy
.tw, allegravita, dnib, Domain Registries, taiwan, twnic
The worse a registrar is at tackling abuse, the more likely it is to be excluded from promotions in the .org space, according to a new policy from Public Interest Registry. The .org registry said today that it is introducing a new “Quality Perfor...
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June 10, 2019 Kevin Murphy
Domain Registries, promotions, public interest registry, quality performance index
Two more companies have told ICANN they’ve changed their minds about running a dot-brand gTLD, including the first example of a TLD that is actually in use. Dun & Bradstreet has said it no longer wishes to launch .duns, and Australian insura...
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June 5, 2019 Kevin Murphy
.duns, Domain Registries, dot-brands, dun & bradstreet, iselect
The number of domains registered in new gTLDs slipped again in the first quarter, but it was not as bad as it could have been. Verisign’s latest Domain Name Industry Brief, out today, reports that new gTLD domains dropped by 800,000 sequentially ...
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May 31, 2019 Kevin Murphy
dnib, domain name industry brief, Domain Registries, Famous Four Media, ffm, grs domains
Australian ccTLD manager auDA has given itself approval to start selling .au domains at the second level for the first time. auDA said today that it plans to lift its third-level-only rule in the fourth quarter this year. The date of October 1 has been...
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May 31, 2019 Kevin Murphy
.au, auda, Domain Registries, second-level
Earlier today, I listed what I believe might be the top 10 dot-brand gTLDs with the most active web sites, but noted that it was probably a rubbish way to gauge the success of the dot-brand concept. As a follow-up, I thought I’d figure out which ...
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May 29, 2019 Kevin Murphy
Domain Registries, dot-brands
The old Famous Four Media gTLD portfolio has shrunk by roughly 60% since old management were kicked out. At the same time, the new registry is selling less than one percent of the domains it used to add each month. The 16 TLDs, now managed by GRS Domai...
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May 28, 2019 Kevin Murphy
Domain Registries, domain venture partners, Famous Four Media, ffm, grs domains