Spammers who launched a hoax extortion campaign across U.S. last month used thousands of dormant domain names created by GoDaddy, which says it is ...

SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan 23, 2019--BRS Media, a diverse and growing media e-commerce firm that assists traditional and interactive media ...

If you bought your ticket to NamesCon last year, the ticket prices were quite economical. If you waited until the last minute to try and buy a ticket, the price has ...

According to a TechCrunch article published yesterday, a startup called Dosh announced it had raised a $40 million round of funding. CrunchBase reports that ...

Amazon posted a job opening on LinkedIn. Amazon Registry Services is looking to hire a Marketing Manager in its Seattle office.

Company changes its strategy to make it easier (and less expensive) to register .homes domains. Dominion Registries is relaunching .homes with lower prices, ...

BANGALORE, India--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan 16, 2019--Neustar Data Infotech (India) Private Limited, the India based subsidiary of Neustar®, Inc., a trusted, ...

Registry sites with contact information have gone dark. [Update: I heard back from the court-appointed administrator. The problem has been fixed.] The registry ...

Verisign and the U.S. Government have agreed on extending the Cooperative Agreement. The extension allows <.com> registry operator - Verisign to raise…

Renewals account for over half of the company's premium revenue in H2 2018. Graphic showing Radix premium domain name revenue in the second half of ...

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Minds Machines Group Ltd (LON:MMX) was down 6.5% on Monday . The stock traded as low as GBX 5.58 ($0.07) and last traded at GBX 5.75 ($0.08).

British citizens with a .eu domain should buy a dotcom replacement and lawyer up, the UK government has formally advised. In official guidance put out over the ...

THE HAGUE, Netherlands, Jan. 15, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Afilias, the world's second largest domain name registry, has joined the Management Board of the ...

Organisations and enterprise in the UK are been pre-warned by the Government that a no deal Brexit means the end of their .eu top level domain name.

BRITISH AND GOT A .EU DOMAIN? Then the government is suggesting you snap up a new dotcom domain and lawyer up ahead of Brexit. The Department for ...

We just received this notice from Hexonet that The .CLUB Registry is going to be increasing their price of a wholesale registration each year over the next three ...

A representative from Sedo shared the company policy regarding stolen domain names being sold via Sedo and how to avoid domain name theft.

Launching a social network based on a single domain name extension is seriously innovative, but such a concept also implies to give Trademarks a chance to ...

From the perspective of the domain name industry, 2018 was strongly influenced by, among other things, the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), ...

Editor's note: We recently received Mark Jeftovic's latest book "Managing Mission Critical Domains & DNS" packed with information covering the whole spectrum ...

The US domain registry is one of the world's most abused top-level domains. This revelation came in an investigation and assessment of the extent domain ...

Legal practitioners, registrants and brand owners are often forced to navigate the online landscape in low visibility. Once you acknowledge the foggy conditions, ...

Cyber security *service* wants injunction thrown out. Whois data and security *service* DomainTools has appealed a preliminary injunction brought against it by .

Once a month, at the end of the month, a snapshot of domain name registration volumes is taken according to categories of new gTLDs. Twenty categories are ...

Discussing the advantages of publicly reporting domain name sales or keep domain name sale information private.

A drop in total registrations will be a healthy sign of a maturing market. A drop in new top level domain registration numbers would be a health thing. This week I ...

I receive spam on a daily basis from various Banks... as well as mine. None are legitimate but actually, that is not what is catching my attention receiving spam.

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 ...

First Hawaiian Bank grew its position in Verisign, Inc. (NASDAQ:VRSN) by 53.2% during the fourth quarter, according to the company in its most recent filing with ...

Radix announced that it has received the official approval from the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology ("MIIT") of the People's Republic of China for ...

VirnetX Holding Co. (NYSEAMERICAN:VHC) was the recipient of some unusual options trading on Tuesday. Stock traders acquired 12176 call options on the ...

Namecoin (NMC) had a good 24 hours as the cryptocurrency jumped $0.000361058999999941 or 0.05% trading at $0.702259755. According to International ...

Assenagon Asset Management S.A. raised its holdings in shares of Verisign, Inc. (NASDAQ:VRSN) by 240.2% in the fourth quarter, according to its most recent ...

Malware researchers discovered two new malware families distributed through phishing campaigns last year carried out by the TA505 cybercriminal group: ...

This press release was orginally distributed by SBWire. Sarasota, FL -- (SBWIRE) -- 12/28/2018 -- Global DNS *Service* Market: Overview. The DNS stands for ...

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Looking back on 2018 there were a lot of interesting stories. A lot of big companies picking up premium .com names, and businesses built on premium names.

Systems meant to thwart robocalls and other spam phone calls are not working as they should.

There's a good chance an enhanced version of Persona 5, titled Persona 5 R, will be announced fairly soon. Back in April 2017, Atlus had registered many ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

Copyright holders would like domain name registrars and registries to take a more active anti-piracy approach. There was some serious movement in this ...

New York State Common Retirement Fund increased Lincoln National Corp (LNC) stake by 5.52% reported in 2018Q3 SEC filing. New York State Common ...

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

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, ...

Last week Microsoft released the January 2019 Patch Tuesday updates and included in the release were two updates that caused problems connecting to ...

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 ...

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 ...

Every Tuesday and Friday, WTR presents a round-up of news, developments and insights from across the trademark sphere. In our latest edition, we look at how ...

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

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 Board of Directors of Public Interest Registry (PIR) unanimously selected Jonathon Nevett as president and chief executive officer, effective Dec. 17. Reston ...

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

Last week's blog post was not the first time Verisign called attention to domain investors. Last week Verisign (NASDAQ: VRSN) shocked many of its biggest ...

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

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

Anguilla's registry cuts out the middleman and begins auctioning expired domain names. Anguilla's ccTLD registry is auctioning expired domains. The registry ...

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

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, ...

Accessing Whois information and acting on a litigious domain name is becoming a nightmare for law enforcement agencies. Law enforcement agencies must ...

Cryptocurrencies refer to virtual forms of currencies that are basically taken as alternative to fiat currencies. The other names would be digital currencies, virtual ...

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 ...

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…

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

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, ...

Controversial site moves its domain name to Epik. Rob Monster, CEO of Epik, believes in “Digital Sovereignty.” Most domain name registrars don't like a hot ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio, Nov. 6, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- To celebrate the first decade of .ME domain name launch, the .ME Registry, operator of .ME domain name ...

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

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

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 ...

GRAND CAYMAN, Cayman Islands, Nov. 7, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- Uniregistry, the world-renowned domain name registration company called today for the ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

You still can't register a domain for more than one year at Google Domains. ICANN has published the latest official data from Verisign (NASDAQ:VRSN) about ...

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

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

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

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

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

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 ...

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.

Q2 2018 - Download Full ReportToday, we released the latest issue of the Domain Name Industry Brief, which showed that the second quarter of 2018 closed ...

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 ...

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 ...

The chart of VeriSign, Inc. (VRSN) shows a double top with $174.31 target or 6.00 % above today's $164.44 share price. The 7 months chart pattern indicates ...

GoDaddy has provided broadly the same *service* over the last decade, and has not adapted its business model to evolving technology. Its rivals are more ...

Consumers pay over a half billion dollars more than necessary each year to register .com domains. Verisign (NASDAQ: VRSN) is currently in negotiations with ...

As it stands right now, Epik's forever registration starts with a 10-year registration, the maximum allowed by the registries. After considering the registry fee and ...

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

Afilias, a leading domain registry operator, announces that landrush for the new "dot LLC" or .LLC top level domain begins today. With the introduction of .LLC ...

NEW YORK, NY – They say that when you mess with the bull, you get the horns. Yesterday, Verisign, the company behind all issuing of .com domain names to ...

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

Patent describes way to sell future rights to domain names through “encoding domains.” Verisign (NASDAQ: VRSN) has filed two patents related to buying future ...

Neustar, the registry operator of the .US domain and NTIA have reversed course, allowing the inclusion of previously restricted "seven dirty words" from future .

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