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I’m very sorry to report that Dietmar Stefitz, founder of the domainer conference that would become NamesCon Europe, has died, according to social media posts. His Facebook profile this morning filled with tributes, variously describing him as &#...
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December 4, 2020 Kevin Murphy
Domain Services, domaining europe
NamesCon is fully online-only this year, due to the pandemic, but that hasn’t stopped the organizers sending out schwag bags to paid-up attendees. Mine arrived this morning in an A4 card envelope. Here’s what was inside. A totally unnecessa...
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August 27, 2020 Kevin Murphy
Domain Services, namescon online, schwag
Hindsight is 2020, right? Not this time! We’re rolling up to the end of the year, so for the fourth DI Leaders Roundtable I thought I’d task my panel of industry experts with the wholly original and unpredictable question: What do you think...
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December 30, 2019 Kevin Murphy
di leaders roundtable, Domain Services, Leaders Roundtable
Ethos Capital doesn’t plan to flip .org manager Public Interest Registry any time soon, according to its CEO. Erik Brooks said that private equity firm Ethos, which intends to buy PIR from the Internet Society for over a billion dollars, plans to...
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December 6, 2019 Kevin Murphy
censorship, Domain Services, ethos, isoc, price caps
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