.tube registry claims victory in linkification fight

Latin American Telecom, the company that runs the .tube gTLD, has claimed victory in its fight to get popular social media apps to “linkify” more than 400 TLDs that have gone live in the last eight years. As I reported two weeks ago, CEO Rami Schwartz managed to figure out that any TLD that entered […]

Is this why WhatsApp hates some TLDs but not others?

Developers of major pieces of internet software, including the world’s most-popular messaging app, may be relying on seriously outdated lists of top-level domains. That’s the picture that seems to be emerging from one new gTLD operator’s quest to discover why WhatsApp doesn’t recognize its TLD, and many others including major dot-brands, as valid. And ICANN […]

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Kevin Murphy No Comments September 11, 2023 11:25 am