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 ...
CentralNic wins another registry contract. Logo for WordPress' .blog top level domain name Automattic, the company behind WordPress, is switching backend ...
View related *content*: Technology and Innovation. Directing traffic to specific web addresses is the core *service* of the internet's domain name system. Domain ...
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 ...
A new top-level domain option called .inc just may be the cure to your domain name ills.
By any metric, the queries and responses that take place in the DNS are highly informative of the Internet and its use. But perhaps the level of interdependencies ...
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 ...
Google has today revealed the results of research into website creation and online security which makes for bittersweet reading. On the positive side websites ...
The operator of .blog top-level domain, Knock Knock WHOIS There, LLC, which is a subsidiary of Automattic, the parent company of WordPress.com and Jetpack ...
Arq Group has sold its wholesale domain business TPP Wholesale to UK-based domain registry CentralNic Group for $24.4 million. The sale comes as the ...
NEWPORT BEACH, Calif., May 7, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Uniregistry Inc., a global leader in Registry services, in partnership with Intercap Registry Inc., ...
PALM BEACH – It's always interesting to see what people are purchasing in the domain space, and then even more interesting is to look at how much they've ...
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 ...
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 ...
The Worcester Redevelopment Authority's order of taking of three properties needed for the $101 million Polar Park has officially been filed at the Worcester ...
One week left to have your say on unrestricted registry prices for legacy TLDs. Image of dollar sign and upwards arrow. Last month, ICANN dropped a bomb on ...
The post.ie, coop.ie and aero.ie domains will go on sale for the first time from 8 May, IE Domain Registry, the company responsible for managing Ireland's.
Minds Machines Group Ltd (LON:MMX) insider Henry Turcan purchased 500000 shares of the firm's stock in a transaction that occurred on Tuesday, May 14th.
Domain company files trademark applications for new logos. Public Interest Registry, the non-profit that manages the .org top level domain name, is in the ...
Results continue to tick upward as company pushes for price increases. Chart of Verisign's revenue and profit - VRSN. It's good to be the king. .Com registry ...
Currently, those who wish to dispute the registration or use of a .ie domain must initiate formal legal proceedings or engage with the World Intellectual P.
Today, any company can get the domain ending that “means business”
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 ...
Guardiola's men come back from a goal down to blast Brighton 4-1 as Liverpool beat Wolves 2-0 on the last day of the campaign.
No English-language website for 'brand new sports *content*, marketing and entertainment platform' set to launch later this summer.
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 ...
Verisign (NASDAQ:VRSN) released its quarterly earnings data on Thursday, April 25th. The information services provider reported $1.31 earnings per share for ...
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 ...
CA country code domain name transitioned to Fury platform. CIRA logo Canadian Internet Registration Authority (CIRA) is now eating its own dog food: The ...
Registrar is now open to all Cloudflare customers. The Cloudflare domain name registrar is now available to all Cloudflare customers, the company announced ...
Manchester United's David de Gea models the new purple goalkeeper kit, which is apparently based on Peter Schmeichel's green kit from 1999. Photos: Twitter.
Seattle-based graphic design and photo editing platform PicMonkey appointed Pearl Chan as chief financial officer and Judith McGarry as chief marketing officer ...
For the first time, Google is letting anyone register a domain using its .dev extension.
It is the second Tuesday of the month, which means it's time for the monthly Patch Tuesday release for all supported versions of Windows 10. If you're on ...
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Company changes its strategy to make it easier (and less expensive) to register .homes domains. Dominion Registries is relaunching .homes with lower prices, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Businesses interested in a .inc domain name will need to pay $2500 per year in registration fees.
VirnetX Holding Co. (NYSEAMERICAN:VHC) was the target of a large growth in short interest in April. As of April 15th, there was short interest totalling 9210293 ...
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The embattled management at Bayer just got a handy boost from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)—a draft report that says glyphosate, the active ...
Namecheap becomes biggest registrar to offer .Is domains. Picture of waterfall in Iceland. This picture of Iceland makes me want to visit. Or at least register a .
Incels.me, a forum populated by "involuntary celibates" has been suspended by the .ME domain registry over *content* promoting violence and hate speech.
Government wants to cut online opioid sales at the registry level. Picture of American Flag with words Opioid Epidemic. Remember when the U.S. National ...
Website of company that boasted it would 'change reality' for clients was registered by Grey *Content*, an ad firm that creates public *service* TV spots for Israeli ...
Shortly after the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA)'s recent announcement allowing Verisign to pursue increased .com registry ...
Most of Donuts' domains will be more costly soon. Domain name registry Donuts is raising prices October 1. On average, prices for standard domain ...
Since the beginning of the year, the US government and private security companies have been warning of a sophisticated wave of attacks that's hijacking ...
Major .com price hikes could be coming. The U.S. Government has extended its Cooperative Agreement with Verisign (NASDAQ: VRSN) for managing the .com ...
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 ...
Afilias announces the availability of 20 Afilias TLDs approved for sale in China by the China Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT).
A mysterious new group called Sea Turtle targeted 40 organizations in a DNS hijacking spree.
The Council of European National Top-Level Domain Registries (CENTR) has published a paper on Domain name registries and online *content* which explores ...
I've been incredibly lucky in my time at Neustar to lead both the exceptional Registry and Security teams. While these divisions handle their own unique product ...
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 ...
Verisign's 10-K gives clues to how it is approaching a .com price increase. .Com registry Verisign (NASDAQ: VRSN) published its 2018 annual report on Friday.
Anguilla's registry cuts out the middleman and begins auctioning expired domain names. Anguilla's ccTLD registry is auctioning expired domains. The 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, ...
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 ...
Pay-over-time domain marketplace will let domainers join the party with any TLD. Screenshot of the website Names.Club. Names.Club will soon accept .com ...
Developers, designers, writers, and architects can now register their top-level domain name with .dev to showcase projects.
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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
Should the domain name industry introduce perpetual domain registrations? Consumers like predictability. They dislike price increases on their cable bill, ...
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 ...
The National Internet Exchange of India (NIXI) operates and manages the .IN ccTLD registry. Late last year, the organization announced that Neustar would ...
The Constantine Roussos (pictured) founded DotMusic Limited will be awarded the rights to the .Music domain name extension by ICANN (Internet Corporation ...
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, ...
Many registrars have removed all means for people to contact you. I received an anonymous voicemail yesterday from an Enom customer who was frustrated ...
It was five years ago this month that the first domains under the new top level domain (nTLD) program started rolling out to consumers. The first Latin script ...
BRS Media, a diverse and growing marketing and e-commerce firm that assists traditional and interactive companies build and brand on the power of the.
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Start a purchase order if you want to buy a .Inc domain in April. Yesterday was day one of early access for .Dev domain names. I watched with amusement as ...
In continuation with its strong performance through Q3, VeriSign ( VRSN ) delivered another solid Q4. The company reported steady growth in.
The Board of Directors of Public Interest Registry (PIR) unanimously selected Jonathon Nevett as president and chief executive officer, effective Dec. 17. Reston ...
In a bizarre sequence of events, after the CRM software company Zoho was taken offline by their domain registrar, they posted to Twitter asking for help getting ...
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 ...
Domainers get a victory in Australia. picture of kangaroos on beach. Domainers can keep investing Down Under. Australian domain name registry manager ...
VeriSign, Inc. (NASDAQ: VRSN), a global provider of domain name registry services and internet infrastructure, today announced that the fourth quarter.
A bomb threat hoax that mobilized police departments across the country last month took advantage of an obscure security weakness at web hosting and ...
ICANN issued an industry-wide six-month deadline for the deployment of the Registration Data Access Protocol (RDAP) - a replacement for the WHOIS protocol.
In december 2000,the Australian government finally setup auDA ,as a body who will monitor the .AU namespace and under telecommunication act 1997 ...
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 ...
The domains market has become stagnant, but innovation is popping up in a new area — blockchain domains. Here's why.
Type “Doc.New” to easily create a new Google Doc. Google is using its .New top level domain name in a unique (and perhaps unprecedented) way. People can ...
Cryptocurrency exchange Goxtrade is under fire after it was discovered that the company was using stolen photos and lying about its staff.
AHMEDABAD: Infibeam, India's first listed ecommerce company, registered over 40,000 domain names in a single day. The company, which operates a unique ...
Constantine Roussos of DotMusic announced his company prevailed over Amazon, Google, and others, and will operate the .Music domain name registry.
In December 2018, a bill on the "stable operation" of the Russian segment of the Internet was introduced and got the title "Sovereign Runet" in mass media and ...
The new gTLD program and the introduction of 1200+ new domain name registries has significantly altered the marketplace dynamics. New domain name ...
Domains from partner registrar were mistakenly sent to GoDaddy for auctioning. Over the weekend, a Domain Name Wire reader noticed that expired domain ...
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 ...
Microsoft would like to remind you to be wary of bogus URLs. A group of suspected Iranian hackers are sending phishing emails that link out to sites like ...
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 ...