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Future of .io domains uncertain as UK hands over Chagos islands  81
The future of the .io ccTLD is up in the air today with the announcement that the UK is to hand over the British Indian Ocean Territory...
DomainIncite.com - 1 hr 15 min ago
.ai now has over half a million names  140
Anguilla’s .ai ccTLD added 54,372 domain names in the last quarter, according to the registry’s web site. The total today i...
DomainIncite.com - Tuesday, October 1, 2024 - 12:10
UK and Israel cut ICANN funding  94
The ccTLD registries for UK and Israel cut their funding to ICANN by the largest amounts in the Org’s last financial year, accord...
DomainIncite.com - Tuesday, October 1, 2024 - 10:33
Twitter now up-to-date on linkification  78
Twitter appears to have dragged itself into the 2020s with the linkification function of its service, after years of complaints. On the...
DomainIncite.com - Tuesday, October 1, 2024 - 9:34
Moment of truth as .music domains finally go on sale  211
After a wait of over 15 years, startup registry DotMusic is bringing .music domains to general availability today. A week-long Early Ac...
DomainIncite.com - Tuesday, October 1, 2024 - 4:37
ICANN fixes embarrassing “What is a Domain Name?” mistake  132
Good news, everyone! ICANN knows what a domain name is! The Org has quietly corrected a slide deck, designed as a high-level introducti...
DomainIncite.com - Monday, September 30, 2024 - 8:42
Another ccTLD opens up its second level  265
Kuwait has become the latest country to make second-level domain registrations possible directly under its national ccTLD. The registry...
DomainIncite.com - Monday, September 30, 2024 - 5:8
Reporter gains first access to .io island for decades  211
A BBC journalist is believed to have become the first reporter to visit Diego Garcia, the main island of the contested British Indian O...
DomainIncite.com - Monday, September 30, 2024 - 3:58
.io sells $40 million of domains after massive uptick  163
.io is now a $40-million-a-year domain, after a few years of impressive growth, judging by the registry’s latest financial report...
DomainIncite.com - Monday, September 30, 2024 - 3:22
After five years, “useless” TLD has two web sites  329
An IDN ccTLD criticized as “useless” by locals when it was approved five years ago has fewer domains today than it did at l...
DomainIncite.com - Friday, September 27, 2024 - 11:24
Verisign agrees to .com takedown rules  282
Verisign has agreed to take down abusive .com domains under the next version of its registry contract with ICANN. The proposed deal, pu...
DomainIncite.com - Friday, September 27, 2024 - 5:18
New .com contract could see ALL domain prices go up  242
Verisign will retain its power to increase .com prices by 7% a year, and prices in other gTLDs could well go up too, under a new propos...
DomainIncite.com - Thursday, September 26, 2024 - 14:39
Investing in .ad domains may be risky  198
Domain investors may shoulder additional risk when they register domains in the relaunching .ad TLD, judging by the registry’s ne...
DomainIncite.com - Thursday, September 26, 2024 - 6:4
Plurals ban policy handed to ICANN board  228
The GNSO Council has approved a blanket ban on singular and plural versions of the same word being delegated as gTLDs in future and pas...
DomainIncite.com - Thursday, September 26, 2024 - 5:15
Three .now domains sell at premium EAP prices  121
Amazon’s Early Access Periods for the new .now and .deal gTLDs have so far netted at least three premium-priced sales. Zone files...
DomainIncite.com - Wednesday, September 25, 2024 - 12:24

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