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- Hackers break .mobi after Whois domain expires
- The new gTLD next, next and next round
- Squarespace gets sweetened $7.2 billion takeover offer
- ICANN hit by DDoS attack
- Russia calls for ICANN to split from US
- China loses over half a million domains
- ICANN to be director light for months
- FBI seizes Russian fake news domains
- Chinese registrars back in trouble after porn UDRP suspension
- Sataki quits ICANN board
- Microsoft switches two gTLDs from GoDaddy to Nominet
- ICANN homes in on new gTLD application fee
- Four more dot-brands switch back-ends
- Uzbekistan gets its first ICANN registrar
- Almost 100,000 .tr domains registered in one day
- ICA finally comments on .com pricing talks
- Unstoppable reveals gTLD bid doomed to fail
- RDRS usage stabilizing?
- “Frat boy culture” ICANN faces more sexual harassment claims
- Unstoppable gets ICANN accreditation
- AI and games among July’s interesting dot-brand domains
- ICANN U-turns on appeals loophole after community revolt
- ICANN to terminate five new gTLDs
- US could change .com pricing terms
- Two out, two in as NomCom picks new ICANN directors
- .cv domains now on sale worldwide
- It’s official, .internal is blocked forever
- Amazon to launch two new gTLDs this month
- Revealed: who’s really running Epik
- ICANN swaps out Asia VP
- No .uk price hikes despite tumbling sales
- Domain world growth despite .com slide
- Verisign predicts more gloom as registrars shun .com growth
- Republicans quiz NTIA on Verisign .com renewal
- Smaller, more intense ICANN meetings with no free cocktails?
- Private auctions to be banned in next new gTLD round
- .au prices going up
- Nominet names director hopefuls
- Crowdstrike screw-up took down ICANN’s email
- We grassed up .TOP, says free abuse outfit
- ICANN to earmark $10 million for new gTLD subsidies
- TV network rebrands on single-letter domain
- First registry gets breach notice over new abuse rules
- Americans and ICANNers avoid Kigali in droves
- RDRS stats improve a little in June
- Unstoppable Domains goes down after domain hijack
- Four more gTLDs in emergency measures
- New gTLDs and ccTLDs drive domain universe growth
- Eight interesting recent dot-brand registrations
- .me premium sales down
- Pride fails to reverse gay domains decline
- Unstoppable announces another new gTLD bid
- Blockchain naming firm gets ICANN accreditation
- ICANN takes over gTLD after Whois failures
- Verisign: would-be .com contract killers are “wrong”
- Five gTLDs at risk as registry goes AWOL
- Groups make flawed case that .com is a cartel
- RDRS usage hits all-time low
- A dot-brand so unloved they killed it twice
- PorkBun hits two million domain milestone
- Crawford returns to industry to head up Com Laude
- ICANN financial data dump a damp squib?
- Unstoppable plotting manga-themed gTLDs
- Governments call for new gTLD auctions ban
- ICANN names new CEO, and it isn’t Costerton
- ICANN: We will NOT police content
- More sticker shock as new gTLD fees could top $300,000
- ICANN slashes staff and domain prices could rise
- Secret new gTLD application revealed
- WhatsApp now linkifying new gTLDs, but…
- Outrage over ICANN’s new gTLD fees
- Barrett gets second term on ICANN board
- DotMusic delays gTLD launch again
- .tm prices to skyrocket next week
- Bitcoin gTLD gets launch dates
- First metaverse gTLD is announced
- Alibaba off the naughty step
- ICANN to kill auction fund bylaws change
- The people have spoken on RDRS and they said “Meh”
- ICANN restarts work on controversial Whois privacy rules
- GNSO mulls lawyering up over auction fund dispute
- Jury still out on ICANN’s content policing powers
- It now takes TWO WEEKS to get a Whois record with RDRS
- Travel expenses push ICANN into the red again
- ICANN preparing for ONE HUNDRED registry back-ends
- DNS Abuse Institute changes name
- A new way to game the new gTLD program
- .home, .mail and .corp could get unbanned
- Unstoppable to apply for Women in Tech gTLD
- Bob Parsons publishes autobiography
- GoDaddy getting a free pass from porn jail?
- Correction: Sinha’s seat is safe
- Chinese domains plummet again in 2023
- GoDaddy price increases lead to revenue growth
- D3 announces seventh blockchain gTLD client
- Taylor Swift applies for her .post domain
- .ad domains to go global soon
- Single-letter .com case back in court
- ICANN to slash costs as Verisign’s magic money tree dries up
- Community revolts over ICANN’s auction proceeds power grab
- Two seats up for grabs on Nominet board
- War takes steep toll on .ua domains
- .de worst TLD for CSAM — report
- .com still shrinking because of China
- ICANN publishes its Woke Manifesto. Here’s my hot take
- Alibaba, Name.com among new RDRS opt-ins
- .my domains to be sold globally next month
- The Swiss can register .swiss domains from next week
- .ai up to 425,000 domains
- A million “free” .music domains up for grabs
- D3 to get $5 million in crypto to apply for .ape gTLD
- Alibaba hit with ICANN breach notice
- New Vegas conference “Davos for Web3 interoperability”
- ICANN content policing power grab may be dead
- Cable company unplugs its dot-brand after acquisition
- Germany crosses 10,000 dot-brand domains milestone
- Founders out as Com Laude gets equity injection
- PIR’s Diaz to leave domain industry
- Some registrars have already quit ICANN’s Whois experiment
- ICANN opens $217 million Grant Program
- Internet could get one-letter gTLDs (but there’s a catch)
- .ai registry fights deadbeats with tweaked auction rules
- Amazon and Google among .internal TLD ban backers
- .ai registry advises buyers not to use GoDaddy
- .post liberalizes with new sunrise period
Gossip: Blackouts, Dallas and Kanye
Eight moderately amusing links from the last 24 hours.
- Apparently, ICANN didn’t trust Nairobi’s electrical grid or its hosts’ generators, so took backup power from the US embassy. All was well until a blackout took out the embassy… but not the Kenyatta.
- Squatters prefer “www” typos shocker.
- One-year registrations give you …continue reading
Nominet to release one-letter domains
Nominet, the .uk registry, is thinking about releasing previously restricted domains for registration, including one and two-letter domains and domains that match existing TLDs.
If the scheme goes ahead, it would mean hundreds of domains such as com.co.uk, mobi.co.uk and de.co.uk, which contain strings currently used at the top level, could be auctioned off.
Essentially all ccTLD strings would be made available, as well as …continue reading
ICANN chief slams African monopolies
ICANN may have been handed a lemon when it discovered six African nations will be crashing its party in Nairobi, but CEO Rod Beckstrom today sought to make lemonade.
Beckstrom “threw down the gauntlet” and invited IGAD nation leaders to “shatter telecom monopolies” and make high-speed internet access more affordable to the average African. …continue reading
Oscar winners show desire for .movie
As a bit of a film buff, I’ve always thought the case for a .movie gTLD was a slam-dunk.
I’d really rather see movie posters containing URLs like sherlock.movie rather than sherlock-holmes-movie.warnerbros.com.
I thought I’d figure out how many of last night’s Oscar nominees managed to secure movietitle.tld for their official web sites and how many went for other options. …continue reading
Cyber cop wants Whois privacy shake-up
Registrars should be made to police Whois so cops can take down illegal sites faster, even if domain name prices have to go up as a result, ICANN’s Government Advisory Committee has been told.
Speaking at the GAC hearing on new gTLDs in Nairobi this afternoon, Paul Hoare of the UK’s Serious and Organised Crime Agency called for …continue reading
Gossip: Geldof, China and Site Finder
Eight Sunday morning tidbits.
- Bob Geldof was on the BBC’s Andrew Marr Show this morning, via satellite from Nairobi. It seems likely he’s there in relation to to IGAD conference on east-African drought, which is being held at the same venue as the ICANN meeting, which kicked off today. Let’s hope he’s …continue reading
Contested TLDs by the social media numbers
There are a surprising number of new TLD proposals with two or more would-be applicants. Quite a few are also playing the social media marketing game to win support.
A quick and dirty analysis of the contested TLDs show that .gay and .eco have the largest show of popular support, while some TLDs have seemingly no following at all.
The numbers are not earth-shattering, but I’ve made the table now so I may as well share it.
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Political hell to descend on ICANN meeting
Forget terrorists, in-person attendees at ICANN’s Nairobi meeting will now have to contend with something potentially much worse: politicians.
About 200 civil servants and security goons from six east-African nations will descend on the Kenyatta International Conference Centre on Monday, just as ICANN’s 37th get-together gets together …continue reading
Gossip: No booth babes for domainers
Eight interesting things collected from interesting web sites:
- No booth babes? No magicians? No speakers? No Powerpoint malfunctions? What the hell kind of tech conference is DOMAINFest Europe? At least the beer will be cheap.
- Speaking of Prague, you can add UDRP to …continue reading
ICANN expects 400+ gTLD applications
If you’ve been wondering how many new gTLDs could be launching under the new streamlined ICANN approval process, ICANN has provided a partial answer.
According to a report into server load by the Root Server System Advisory Committee “demand in the initial round will be …continue reading
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