Incels.me, a forum populated by "involuntary celibates" has been suspended by the .ME domain registry over *content* promoting violence and hate speech.

Public Interest Registry (PIR), the nonprofit operator of the .org domain, today announced that its Board of Directors has unanimously selected Jonathon Nevett ...

RESTON, Va., Dec. 5, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- Public Interest Registry (PIR), the nonprofit operator of the .ORG domain, today announced that its Board of ...

Domain name was taken down after warning and request to remove *content*. The registry that runs the .ME top level domain name has released a statement ...

NEW YORK, NY - If you had not heard yet - domain registry, parking and portfolio management company "Uniregistry" has launched a re-branding effort ...

Minds + Machines Group Limited (MMX), a domain registry company, has announced that its first R&D project, .luxe, is now supported by 71 registrars globally.

Back in April 2015, I tweeted about receiving a letter via snail mail suggesting the search engine rankings for a domain registered in my name would suffer if I ...

VeriSign's (NASDAQ:VRSN) stock price has increased by around 41% in 2018 so far, as a result of the steady improvement in its top line and bottom line ...

NEW YORK, NY – This past week, the man who virtually created the Internet, Tim Berners-Lee, spoke about his “Contract for the Web” initiative; something he ...

Shortly after the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA)'s recent announcement allowing Verisign to pursue increased .com registry ...

Wex, the digital asset trading platform that inherited the now-defunct BTC-e exchange, has lost its wex.nz domain. According to New Zealand's Domain Name ...

Higher price tag applies only to registrations made after March 15, 2019. The registry for .在线 (xn--3ds443g – “Dot Chinese Online”) is hiking prices by about 25 ...

Imagine a customer complains to you about a product they purchased online from YOURBRAND.COM. Only you don't own this domain name, and the ...

Would you be interested in helping guide the future of the Public Interest Registry (PIR), the non-profit operator of the .ORG, .NGO and .ONG domains? If so, the ...

RESTON, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec 6, 2018--VeriSign, Inc. (NASDAQ: VRSN), a global leader in domain names and internet security, today announced that ...

Inside the world of .brand top level domain names. dnw-podcast Companies applied for many types of new top level domains in the current round of expansion.

Patents go hand in hand with innovation, and compared to other tech industry heavyweights, Samsung came out on top. Hayden Field. Published 4:15 pm CST, ...

doMEn d.o.o., the Registry for the .ME country code Top Level Domain (ccTLD), has recently announced that it would soon allow the registration of…

According to reports, the directors at Wex allegedly registered their internet address using fake contact details. For this reason, the New Zealand Domain Name ...

ShortDot SA, a domain registry based in Luxembourg, has announced that active .icu registrations have exceeded 130000 domains.

Top 10 registrars juggle places in latest monthly report. ICANN has published the latest official data from Verisign (NASDAQ: VRSN) about the .com registry.

New TLD companies pile on for awareness campaign. How should ICANN spend the $240 million it has raised by auctioning rights to new top level domain ...

Niue takes one of Sweden's biggest internet organisations to court, claiming millions of dollars' worth of revenue was lost because its internet domain name was ...

It's been a busy week at Cloudflare, which promised a week of news for its birthday (and delivered). After announcing the Bandwidth Alliance yesterday, the ...

As social media companies and payment processors crack down on offensive speech, people and groups are using the tools to harass their enemies.

Minds Machines Group Ltd (LON:MMX) insider Henry Turcan sold 1000000 shares of the business's stock in a transaction that occurred on Tuesday, November ...

Minds + Machines on the Daily Podcast. 10th Dec 2018 06:42. See more in series. Disclaimer. The *content* of this podcast / blog (or *content* associated with it) is ...

LONDON, November 20, 2018 /PRNewswire/ --New gTLD (generic top-level domain) .Cloud is pleased to announce it has received accreditation from China's ...

Deal is a sign of the times in the expired domain business. Web.com is now the sole owner of domain name auction site NameJet after acquiring Tucows' ...

There are a million different things going on these days when it comes to preventing the powers that be from destroying the internet that we know and love.

The cloud network based security and *content* delivery network vendor is set to provide some competition to incumbents in the domain business.

Teachers Retirement System of The State of Kentucky cut its stake in Verisign, Inc. (NASDAQ:VRSN) by 22.3% in the 3rd quarter, according to its most recent ...

Administrator of South Africa's presence on the worldwide web, ZA Central Registry, revealed that SA has surpassed 1.2 million ...

Donuts beats its previous records for a new top level domain sale. New top level domain company Donuts has sold the domain name Online.Casino for ...

The long-standing but outdated "admin" role associated with every internet domain name will be killed off under new recommendations designed to update the ...

Phishing is one of the main reasons why Australian businesses are hacked. So what does an exotic paradise in the middle of the Indian Ocean have to do with ...

South Africa's Internet namespace has surpassed 1.2 million name registrations across all the Second Level Domains (SLDs).

The number of registered .za domain names managed by ZACR have officially exceeded 1.2 million for the first time. The number of .za domains is 1203613.

Many forward-thinking organisations have now moved from “mobile first” as a digital design principle, to “mobile first” as a way of doing business. This trend is ...

ICANN has released two new circulars, namely on increasing transparency around compliance activities and Domain Name System (DNS) infrastructure abuse.

First Deputy Governor of the Bank of Ghana (BoG), Dr Maxwell Opoku Afari, has said the central bank remains committed to blockchain innovations that can ...

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BidaskClub upgraded shares of Verisign (NASDAQ:VRSN) from a sell rating to a hold rating in a report published on Saturday, December 1st. Several other ...

Shoppers this Christmas are bracing themselves for the biggest spending spree since the Celtic Tiger years.

NEW YORK, NY – Two things happened on November 1, 2018, when the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) announced it ...

In our latest round-up, we look at a tussle over BRENT marks in Singapore, a "worrying trend" of retail fakes in Papua New Guinea, a new UK IP minister, and ...

Analysis An ugly struggle over the .Web top-level domain may soon spill into public view again, after one of the companies vying for control of the dot-word ...

Fjarde AP Fonden Fourth Swedish National Pension Fund boosted its position in Verisign, Inc. (NASDAQ:VRSN) by 18.3% during the 3rd quarter, according to ...

CircleID is focused on the Internet infrastructure serving related news, blogs, opinions, and more. The CircleID community consists of savvy and rapidly growing ...

Donuts, a domain name registry based in Kirkland, Wash., has agreed to be acquired by Abry Partners, a private equity firm based in Boston. Terms of the deal ...

IEDR, the Irish registry for internet domain names, is to liberalise its policy on the registration of .ie domain names following a public…

In May, Google announced a new .app top-level domain focussed on security. Google Registry is now opening up a .page TLD as part of an Early Access ...

Bruce Jaffe is stepping down from his role as CEO of the domain name registry company Donuts Inc., about a month after it was acquired by Abry Partners, ...

Standard Life Aberdeen plc lowered its holdings in Verisign, Inc. (NASDAQ:VRSN) by 50.5% in the 3rd quarter, according to its most recent Form 13F filing with ...

AHMEDABAD: Infibeam, India's first listed ecommerce company, registered over 40,000 domain names in a single day. The company, which operates a unique ...

What we call a "backend registry" is the mandatory technical platform to operate a domain name extension and all registries have one. It is the backend registry ...

New research shows how attackers can abuse security questions in Windows 10 to maintain domain privileges.

Is it tough task to find the right domain registrar especially when there are unlimited options? No. But it can be if you are a newbie. When choosing any domain…

The new gTLD program and the introduction of 1200+ new domain name registries has significantly altered the marketplace dynamics. New domain name ...

Company wants to use “Registry in a Box” for registry services product. Frank Schilling's Uniregistry runs its own technical registry for its top level domain names ...

Christmas shopping is in full swing. In Ireland we are expected to indulge in the biggest shopping spree since the Celtic Tiger years. The cash splurge will be ...

Victory Capital Management Inc. trimmed its holdings in shares of Verisign, Inc. (NASDAQ:VRSN) by 10.7% in the third quarter, according to its most recent filing ...

Akram Atallah, head of ICANN's Global Domains Division, has left the organization to join leading gTLD registry Donuts Inc. as its new CEO.

Germany-based ICANN-accredited registrar EPAG owned by Tucows has informed ICANN that it plans to stop collecting Whois contact information from its ...

In celebration of the .ME domain extension's 10th year anniversary, the .ME Registry has announced the launch of a diverse range of IDN languages.

Original registrant files lawsuit after failing to recover domain name through UDRP. The former owner of SNN.com, who says his domain name was stolen, has ...

Verisign announces the launch of our phased rollout of קום. in Hebrew script. This new, Verisign-operated internationalized domain name (IDN) extension was ...

Merged mining, or Auxiliary Proof-of-Work for the more technical crowd, is the process of mining two separate cryptocurrencies at the same time. Although not as ...

A domain was privately registered May 18 for DevilMayCry5.com, and discovered Sunday by attentive fans on a Devil May Cry Discord.

NEW YORK, Sept. 18, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- Afilias Australia Pty Ltd announced today that it has set the GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS title for Largest ...

auDA (.au Domain Administration Ltd) and Afilias Australia are pleased to announce the successful and historic transition of more than 3.1 million .au domain ...

The LK Domain Registry. The one place that you must go to, in order to obtain a .lk domain for your website. Think of the LK Domain Registry is a ledger of sorts, ...

On May 25, 2018, regulations went into effect that limit the amount of WHOIS information that is publicly available online. United States Intellectual Property Fish ...

The National Telecommunications & Information Administration (NTIA) has agreed to modify its agreement with domain name registrar Verisign that will allow it ...

Company that manages domain name .ie recently liberalised registration process.

The first step in an intelligent domain strategy is to look at trademark registration strategy. What has been registered and where? Is there a pattern of registration ...

name.co.zw the domain name registry portal is currently down and has been facing some challenges for the past few hours. The site has been down since ...

On May 25, 2018, the European General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”) went into effect. Although the GDPR has many provisions that will impact the way ...

Also, Women for Afghan Women appoints a new executive director, and the CEO of Grantmakers in Health will depart next year.

HORSHAM, Pa., Aug. 30, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- Afilias, a leading domain registry operator, announced today that it has formally established a new corporate...

When you're standing close to ICANN, the domain business may seem pretty big, but when you stand farther away, not so much. Verisign's revenues are about ...

The European Commission dropped a surprise announcement last week that following the withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union ("Brexit"), ...

DUBLIN, July 9, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- Afilias, a leading domain registry operator, announces that landrush for the new "dot LLC" or .LLC top level domain ...

GRAND CAYMAN, Cayman Islands, Oct. 11, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- Uniregistry, the world-renowned domain name registration company has announced the ...

In the Internet's early days, those wishing to register their own domain name had only a few choices of top-level domain to choose from, such as .com, .net, ...

Org operator is changing how it works with registrars. dnw-podcast Public Interest Registry (PIR), the group that operates the .org top level domain name, ...

Dot com continues to dominate as new generic Top Level Domain registrations fall, according to VeriSign's Domain Name Industry Brief.

PE snaps up company that manages nearly 240 top level domain names. Abry Partners, a private equity firm that has completed $77 billion in transactions since ...

Many registrars have removed all means for people to contact you. I received an anonymous voicemail yesterday from an Enom customer who was frustrated ...

Anyone who has tried to take down an infringing website or obtain transfer of an infringing domain name understands the value of the WHOIS *service*…

Graphene is an atomically thin material that supports highly confined plasmon polaritons, or nano-light, with very low loss. The properties of graphene can be ...

The Ethereum address-naming provider will be integrated into Minds + Machines Group Limited's forthcoming domain .luxe. MMX will allow current .eth address ...

December 7, 2018 Diego Garcia, British Indian Ocean Territory (BIOT): There is something fishy in the British Indian Ocean Territory according to crypto lawyer ...

New Zealand's Domain Name Commission today won a motion for preliminary injunction in a US lawsuit against the company DomainTools.

Google today released Nomulus, the Java-based registry platform that powers Google's own .google and .foo top level domains (TLDs). Google says it started ...

Domains from partner registrar were mistakenly sent to GoDaddy for auctioning. Over the weekend, a Domain Name Wire reader noticed that expired domain ...

Latest tax return doesn't reflect new Afilias contract. Public Interest Registry (PIR), which manages the .org top level domain, has filed its 2017 tax return (large ...

Donuts, a domain name registry based in Kirkland, Wash., has raised $110 million in financing to help complete its $213 million acquisition of fellow domain ...

Verisign is pleased to announce that קום., the new, Verisign-operated, internationalized domain name (IDN) extension that is uniquely designed for Hebrew ...

The stock of Verisign Inc (NASDAQ:VRSN) registered a decrease of 5.12% in short interest. VRSN's total short interest was 2.11 million shares in December as.