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The .gov top-level domain is moving for the first time since 1997, and the new owner is promising some pricing changes from next year. The US General Services Administration has been running .gov, one of the original gTLDs, for almost a quarter-century...
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March 15, 2021 Kevin Murphy
.Gov, CISA, Domain Registries, GSA, IANA, redelegation
The Pacific island nation of Niue is loudly demanding that ICANN hand over control of its ccTLD, .nu, after two decades of bitter argument. The government has taken the highly unusual move of filing a redelegation request with ICANN’s IANA unit p...
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January 5, 2021 Kevin Murphy
.nu, .SE, Domain Policy, gac, iis, iusn, niue, redelegation
It looks like GoDaddy’s recently acquired .co registry could lose formal control of the ccTLD this week. ICANN’s board of directors has “Transfer of the .CO (Colombia) top-level domain to the Ministry of Information and Communications...
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September 8, 2020 Kevin Murphy
.co internet, Domain Registries, IANA, mintic, redelegation
Neustar has been selected as the back-end domain registry operator for the nation of Vanuatu. The company, and the Telecommunications Radiocommunications and Broadcasting Regulator, announced the appointment, which came after a competitive tender proce...
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August 13, 2019 Kevin Murphy
.vu, back-end, Domain Registries, IANA, migration, redelegation, telecom vanuatu, transition, TRBR, vanuatu
Turkey’s ccTLD has been transferred into government hands. ICANN’s board of directors at the weekend formally approved a redelegation request from the country to its IANA division. The new official ccTLD manager is Bilgi Teknolojileri ve İl...
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May 7, 2019 Kevin Murphy
.tr, Bilgi Teknolojileri ve İletişim Kurumu, Domain Registries, Middle East Technical University, redelegation
The tiny Pacific island of Niue has sued the Swedish ccTLD registry to gain control of its own ccTLD, .nu, DI has learned. The lawsuit, filed this week in Stockholm, claims that the Internet Foundation In Sweden (IIS) acted illegally when it essentiall...
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November 28, 2018 Kevin Murphy
.nu, .SE, Domain Registries, IANA, iis, iusn foundation, niue, one.com, postel, redelegation, worldnames