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ICANN has given Verisign its ability to increase .com prices by up to 7% a year, despite thousands of complaints from domain owners. The amendments give Verisign the right to raise prices in each of the last four years of its six-year duration. The cur...
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March 30, 2020 Kevin Murphy
Domain Registries, Namecheap, price caps, registry agreement
With much of the world already laboring under coronavirus-related movement and assembly restrictions, many domain industry companies have started to publicly outline their business continuity plans. Some companies have already implemented blanket home-...
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March 16, 2020 Kevin Murphy
coronavirus, covid-19, Domain Registries
There have been several top-level hires at big new gTLD players in the last week. Donuts has announced it has appointed Mina Neuberg as chief marketing officer. Neuberg appears to be a newcomer to the domain industry, having most recently worked at a l...
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March 5, 2020 Kevin Murphy
Domain Registries, intercap, mmx
Ethos Capital has volunteered to have price caps written back into Public Interest Registry’s .org contract, should ICANN approve its $1.1 billion proposed acquisition. The private equity firm said Friday that it has offered to agree to a new, en...
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February 25, 2020 Kevin Murphy
Domain Registries, ethos, isoc, picdrp, pics, price caps
The public have spoken: they don’t want Verisign to get the right to raise .com prices again. ICANN’s public comment period on the amended .com contract closed on Friday, with just shy of 9,000 comments which appear to be overwhelmingly aga...
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February 17, 2020 Kevin Murphy
Domain Registries, price caps
The Internet Commerce Association has released a new version of its semi-automated commenting tool, making it a bit easier for domainers and others to complain to ICANN about the proposed .com price increases. Surprisingly, the tool will also help you ...
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February 10, 2020 Kevin Murphy
Domain Registries, price caps
The more Ethos Capital protests that its plans for .org pricing are not as bad as its critics think, the less I believe it. Since November, the would-be buyer of Public Interest Registry has being publicly committing to maintain what it calls PIR’...
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February 10, 2020 Kevin Murphy
Domain Registries, ethos, isoc, price caps
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