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With NamesCon’s swansong Las Vegas show just a few weeks away, its agenda and speaker list is well on the way to being finalized. Organizers recently announced Bhavin Turakhia, Haseeb Tariq and Richard Lau as speakers. Turakhia, founder of Radix ...
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January 7, 2019 Kevin Murphy
Domain Services
Radix’s entire portfolio of new gTLDs is now approved for sale and use in China, according to the company. The company said today that .host, .press, .space and .website recently received the nod from the Ministry of Industry and Information Tech...
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January 3, 2019 Kevin Murphy
Domain Services, miit, xinnet
XYZ.com seems to have acquired the .baby gTLD from Johnson & Johnson. ICANN records show that the .baby registry contract was assigned to the growing portfolio registry November 19. The news, which has yet to be announced by buyer or seller, arrive...
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December 18, 2018 Kevin Murphy
Domain Services, xyz.com
The new gTLD market will improve very slightly over the next year or so, according to ICANN’s latest budget predictions. The organization is now forecasting that it will see $5.2 million of funding from new gTLD registry transaction fees in the f...
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December 18, 2018 Kevin Murphy
Domain Services
Ten people have been picked to work on a system that would see ICANN act as the gatekeeper for private Whois information. The organization today announced the composition of what it’s calling the Technical Study Group on Access to Non-Public Regi...
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December 14, 2018 Kevin Murphy
Domain Services, gdpr, rdap, tsg-rd
The Danish ccTLD registry has announced that it is to introduce a charge for .dk transfers for the first time in January. From the start of 2019, transfers between registrants will cost DKK 50 (about $7.50), DK Hostmaster said today. Currently, transfe...
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December 12, 2018 Kevin Murphy
.dk, dk hostmaster, Domain Services
Uniregistry has called for a “Domain Bill of Rights” to protect free speech in a world were domain takedowns can be used to de-platform controversial speakers. Meanwhile, CEO Frank Schilling has told DI that the company did not expel the ri...
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November 9, 2018 Kevin Murphy
censorship, contract for the web, domain bill of rights, Domain Services, gab.com
DomainTools now has records of over a billion domain names in its database, according to the company. The billionth name was added last month, according to a blog post. The company notes that there are only about 350 million domains in existence today,...
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August 10, 2018 Kevin Murphy
Domain Services
NamesCon Europe is being held in Valencia, Spain, this week, the first time the NamesCon branding has been applied to the old Domaining Europe show. Starting Thursday, it’s a two-day conference — or three if you count the social events plan...
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June 4, 2018 Kevin Murphy
Domain Services, gdpr, namescon europe
With full Whois records set to disappear from public view for most domain names this Friday, auction house Sedo has had to resort to some technical trickery to enable its users to prove they own the domains they list for sale. Until now, when listing a...
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May 23, 2018 Kevin Murphy
Domain Services, gdpr