The 12th international conference for ccTLD registries and registrars in CIS, Central and Eastern Europe, TLDCON 2019, has ended in Vilnius,...

Non-profit that runs .org moves from PIR to TheNew.org. Website for Public Interest Registry, including the .Org logo and two hands holding each. PIR's new ...

101domain, the domain registrar known for carrying the largest selection of top-level domains in the industry, is expanding their brand protection offering with a ...

Afilias, the world's second largest domain name registry, today thanks Desiree Z. Miloshevic for her leadership and *service* to the Board of Trustees of the ...

Scammer is sending PayPal invoices for domain renewals. Fake domain name renewal emails are nothing new, but some aspects of one making the rounds are ...

Four decades ago, when Bob Kahn and I were creating the TCP/IP networking protocol for the internet, we did not know that we were laying the tracks for what ...

Updated Colin McDermott was surprised this week to receive an invoice from the UK's largest domain name registrar, 123-Reg, auto-billing him £11.99 for a ...

Almost every institution which purports to provide space for public accountability includes some sort of formalized process by which the public can have their say.

He was a potential big-money donor, a Forbes-listed billionaire, and officials at the MIT Media Lab were intrigued. What came next was illuminating. The person ...

VeriSign, Inc. (NASDAQ: VRSN), a global provider of domain name registry services and internet infrastructure, today announced that the second quarter.

Unstoppable Domains, a software company building domains on blockchains, is holding a sunrise period until October 15 for trademark holders to claim their .zil ...

AKARTA, Sept 4, 2019 - (ACN Newswire) - .id Registry, the official Indonesian Internet Domain Name Registry, announced today that 'my.id' Domain Names will ...

More than any other digital communications infrastructure, cybercriminals are increasingly targeting the domain name system. The DNS, often referred to as the ...

Unstoppable Domains, a software company building domains on blockchains, today introduced its second installment of The Blockchain Domain Grant Program, ...

Brandsight recently concluded their Third Annual Domain Management Survey. Designed to uncover issues of greatest concern to corporate domain name ...

The agenda of TLDCON 2019, the 12th international conference for ccTLD registries and registrars of the CIS,...

Sep 10, 2019 | 0. PrideLife, a new e-commerce store focused on domain names and the first ever LGBT-owned registrar, has delivered its soft launch to coincide ...

Washington, D.C., September 10, 2019--Websites and email addresses belonging to embattled independent news agency Asia Plus in Tajikistan have been ...

Thief stole Florida company's domain and asked for 10 bitcoin ransom. Cut out letters spelling the word "ransom". A thief stole a domain name from an online ...

The number of active internet domains registered in the .pl area totaled 2.602 million at the end of the second quarter, according to the NASK national domain ...

The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has called on Tajik authorities to investigate the "apparently targeted disruption" of the embattled independent news ...

On a number of occasions, readers have asked what happens to a registry's domain names should the registry go out of business. Domain registrants have a ...

There are many things to think about when you're starting a new business. In addition to the financial, marketing and other business matters, there are important ...

IE Domain Registry, the company that manages and maintains Ireland's country domain, .ie, has today launched its 'Digital Town' initiative for the second y.

The registry which operates the .bank domain is moving to explicitly ban cryptocurrency companies from registering a name with the extension.

My email inbox had several Google Alerts this morning linking to a Sonoma Index-Tribune article about an alleged “hijacking” of SVH.com, a domain name that ...

Domain Names composed of generic terms and combinations – dictionary words, random letters, and short strings – have achieved ascending values in the ...

Web.com posted a job opening. The Jacksonville company is looking to hire a Strategic Aftermarket Sales Executive to work with NameJet and SnapNames.

Through the Federal Court, Bell, Rogers, and Groupe TVA are hoping to obtain the first Canadian pirate site blocking order. The companies believe that website ...

Sea Turtle group returns with new attacks; continues DNS hijacking spree.

Wicklow registered 941 new .ie domains in the first half of 2019, according to a new report.

Connor Clark & Lunn Investment Management Ltd. increased its stake in shares of Verisign, Inc. (NASDAQ:VRSN) by 18.2% during the second quarter, ...

Unstoppable Domains is on a mission to make the Internet more censorship resistant. Announcing a new $4 million round of financing on Thursday, ...

Jennison Associates LLC decreased its holdings in Verisign, Inc. (NASDAQ:VRSN) by 2.1% in the second quarter, according to the company in its most recent ...

Looking to build a website? Your first step is registering a domain name, which can be daunting if you've never done it before. This primer details the steps you ...

BALTIMORE, Sept. 16, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Sage Growth Partners (SGP), a Baltimore-based healthcare research, strategy, and marketing firm, today ...

A blockchain startup is bringing the fight for free speech to the domain level. Unstoppable Domains announced Thursday a $4 million Series A led by venture ...

Price caps have traditionally kept legacy domain name extensions like .com, .net, and .org, affordable for most anyone. ICANN is looking to change that.

No matter what Verisign charges them, registrar profits on .com are limited by competition. Last year the U.S. Government granted the ability for Verisign ...

Afilias, the world's second largest domain name registry, today announced the signing of an agreement to acquire Dot Global Domain Registry Limited in Dublin, ...

User experience and search engine optimization best practices have come a long way in recent years, but some believe there are obstacles barring a ...

Online marketplaces, such as Amazon, provide sellers with the opportunity to get their products in front of a huge audience and boost sales. Many...

A year after U.S. authorities closed Backpage.com, the biggest player in the online sex-for-sale industry, investigators are focused on three websites now ...

Businesses interested in a .inc domain name will need to pay $2500 per year in registration fees.

LPL Financial LLC raised its position in shares of Verisign, Inc. (NASDAQ:VRSN) by 24.6% during the 2nd quarter, according to the company in its most recent ...

Google is officially launching its .dev top-level domain (TLD) into general availability from today. The internet giant opened up early-access registrations to .dev ...

Namecheap unveiled a new logo maker today and it looks like you do not have to be a member to use it. You are totally free to play, create, and download as ...

The Council of European National Top-Level Domain Registries (CENTR) has published a paper on Domain name registries and online *content* which explores ...

28 more top level domains can be locked at the registry level. Picture of lock on bars with the words "Registry Lock" above it in black. Afilias is the latest domain ...

Cork county and city registered more than 2000 new '.ie' domains in the first half of 2019, according to a new report released by 'IE Domain Registry' in recent ...

ICANN responds to (some) questions about why it decided to remove price controls. Meme "All your base are belong to us" but with "All your base. Earlier this ...

Companies, self-employed entrepreneurs, private individuals and local organisations in Laois registered 365 new. ie domains in the first half of 2019, according.

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Editor's note: this post is by Nat Cohen. I am publishing it because he provides a rich context for ICANN's proposal to remove price restrictions on .org domain ...

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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 ...

Contra Costa Health Services takes on whole person care by gathering every bit of data, not just medical care data, and getting it into its Epic EHR. The results ...

Proposal attracted 3252 opposing comments, just six in favor.

View related *content*: Technology and Innovation. Directing traffic to specific web addresses is the core *service* of the internet's domain name system. Domain ...

Over 400 new .ie domains have been registered in Clare in the first half of this year. Figures compiled by the IE Domain Registry show that the 409 new websites ...

ICANN is about to do serious damage to its reputation by making a precipitous, ill-considered leap into the unknown should it follow through on removing price ...

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

Gauss Research Laboratory, Inc, the registry operator for .PR, Puerto Rico's top-level domain (TLD), and Afilias, its technology partner, announced today that the ...

It should not be a goal to align legacy TLD policies with new TLD policies. ICANN dropped a bombshell yesterday: it's planning to remove all price controls on ...

For the first time, Google is letting anyone register a domain using its .dev extension. Google has owned the .dev generic top-level domain name (gTLD) since ...

PIR's take is simple but on point. Logo for .NGO, a new top level domain for non-profits. Like other new TLDs, .ngo domains aren't exactly flying off the shelf.

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

Associations and other tax-exempt groups could find it a lot costlier in the future to renew their website domain names ending in .org if a new contract proposed ...

Radix has published its Premium Domains Performance report data for the first half of 2019. Gaming.tech domain name was recorded as the highest one time ...

CentralNic wins another registry contract. Logo for WordPress' .blog top level domain name Automattic, the company behind WordPress, is switching backend ...

Building and sustaining a brand has gotten more challenging. The global marketplace, empowered by the Internet, has delivered a raft of opportunities to ...

Afilias announces the availability of 20 Afilias TLDs approved for sale in China by the China Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT).

ICANN ignores community input and agrees to lift price restrictions on .org domains. Circular shapes with .org in them and mouse pointers. Green, blue and pink.

Crypto companies may be banned from hosting .bank and .insurance domain extensions. fTLD Registry Services, a domain name system (DNS) registry, ...

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, ...

Code that makes network applications compliant with universal-acceptance standards is an easy way to build a more inclusive Internet.

ICANN has a duty to cap renewal prices of domain names. Picture of man surprised about high bill. This might be your reaction to your renewal notice in a ...

Use the Lexology Getting The Deal Through tool to compare the answers in this article with those from other jurisdictions. Registration and use of domains at ...

Song-Marshall, Abley and Vora join PIR executive team. Pictures of new PIR hires Judy Song-Marshall, Joe Abley, Anand Vora. L to R: Judy Song-Marshall, Joe ...

A new publication of Afnic deals with the overall trends of the Domain Name market in 2018. The publication of ICANN statistics as at the end of last year allows ...

Survey shows people still need help. Screenshot of safe.page, a Google Registry site about safe web browsing. People still need help with web security. Google ...

You might have to pay a lot more for your .org and .info domains in the future. Image of dollar sign and upwards arrow Domain name overseer ICANN has ...

ICANN issued an industry-wide six-month deadline for the deployment of the Registration Data Access Protocol (RDAP) - a replacement for the WHOIS protocol.

Q1 2019 – Download Full ReportVerisign today released the latest issue of the Domain Name Industry Brief, which shows that the first quarter of 2019 closed ...

Consider these eight safeguards to keep thieves away from your domain names. image of hackers breaking into online passwords, credit cards. If you own ...

Welcome to the first quarterly update of 2019. In the first three months of this year, Spamhaus Malware Labs have observed significant changes in the malware ...

At Radix, we're always on the lookout for websites on our TLDs that stand out from the rest. In this post, we look at four end-user premium domain name sales, ...

The Constantine Roussos (pictured) founded DotMusic Limited will be awarded the rights to the .Music domain name extension by ICANN (Internet Corporation ...

Radix, one of the world's largest nTLD portfolio registries, announced today that it grossed $16.95M in total revenue in 2018, a 30% rise over its revenue in 2017 ...

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 ...

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The Office of the Vanuatu Telecommunications, Radiocommunications and Broadcasting Regulator (TRBR) would like to announce the appointment of Neustar ...

Company drops new top level domains as it becomes a shell company. DigitalTown SEC filing image. DigitalTown, Inc. filed its delayed 10-K yesterday. It covers ...

Recently, a blogger whose website features posts and ads from domain speculators wondered what the cost of registering a .com domain name would be if ...

Prolific England cricketer Ben Stokes has branded The Sun newspaper as "utterly disgusting" after it ran a front page story about a family tragedy that took place ...

NASK, the organisation responsible for the Top Level Domain .PL (Poland), recently announced the introduction of a Registry Lock *service* for .PL domain ...

KrebsOnSecurity details how attackers took control of sensitive domains around the world.

A mysterious new group called Sea Turtle targeted 40 organizations in a DNS hijacking spree.

Based on my time at ICANN, I know how hard it was to make the right decisions in the face of what, to the public, appeared to be obviously wrong.

I am asked every week who is the best domain registrar? My answer is always it depends on your specific needs and interests. For me it's Epik, GoDaddy, ...