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DomainIncite.com - Wednesday, September 10, 2025 - 14:26
Unstoppable wants to be a registry back-end  105
Unstoppable Domains has applied to ICANN to become a back-end registry services provider, according to the company’s CEO. Matt Go...
DomainIncite.com - Tuesday, September 9, 2025 - 14:13
Sixteen new gTLD bids could face the firing squad  104
ICANN’s board of directors has an unusually bumper crop of non-trivial resolutions on its agenda for next week, including the fat...
DomainIncite.com - Tuesday, September 9, 2025 - 9:6
Registry to release one-letter domains tomorrow  158
People looking for a single-character domain name in a two-character ccTLD will have a new option from tomorrow. Adsib, the registry fo...
DomainIncite.com - Wednesday, September 3, 2025 - 11:6
New ICANN funding rules will cost smaller ccTLDs more  106
The way ccTLDs fund ICANN is being reformed, with some registries set to pay thousands of dollars more to the Org’s annual budget...
DomainIncite.com - Wednesday, September 3, 2025 - 6:11
.ai rival lines up gTLD bid  144
The increasingly popular .ai top-level domain looks like it could have its first full competitor before long. An organization called 0G...
DomainIncite.com - Wednesday, September 3, 2025 - 3:49
Team Internet lays off 200  142
When Google tweaks its algorithms, people lose their jobs. That seems to be the takeaway from Team Internet’s latest trading upda...
DomainIncite.com - Tuesday, September 2, 2025 - 9:28
Sixteen more orgs vie for cheap gTLDs, but…  142
Africa and Latin America are still under-represented in applications for ICANN’s new gTLD Applicant Support Program, according to...
DomainIncite.com - Friday, August 29, 2025 - 9:2
So who’s registering sunrise domains these days?  155
Amazon went into sunrise with three gTLDs this week, and I thought it might be interesting to pore over the latest zone files to see wh...
DomainIncite.com - Thursday, August 28, 2025 - 11:47
Cloud gTLD gets launch dates  126
Another long-dormant gTLD from the 2012 round is set to launch soon. Documents filed with ICANN show that the Chinese software company ...
DomainIncite.com - Thursday, August 28, 2025 - 5:12
Governments say new gTLD program “credibility” at stake  126
ICANN’s Governmental Advisory Committee is “deeply concerned” about the credibility of the new gTLD program’s N...
DomainIncite.com - Wednesday, August 20, 2025 - 8:12
NIXI planning doomed new gTLD bids  113
Indian national ccTLD registry NIXI is reportedly planning to branch out into new gTLDs, unfortunately it’s picked two strings th...
DomainIncite.com - Wednesday, August 20, 2025 - 7:0
AI experts replace Chapman on ICANN board  124
ICANN’s Nominating Committee has announced its annual picks for the Org’s board of directors, with two new fresh faces, bot...
DomainIncite.com - Wednesday, August 20, 2025 - 1:55
RDRS may not be dead  122
ICANN’s pilot Registration Data Request Service could live on beyond its original shelf life, if new recommendations are approved...
DomainIncite.com - Tuesday, August 19, 2025 - 9:17
Single-letter .com lawsuit thrown out of court  151
A domainer trying to lay claim to all remaining unregistered single-character .com and .net domain names has had his lawsuit against IC...
DomainIncite.com - Monday, August 18, 2025 - 5:9

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