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More gloom predicted for .com  227
Verisign is predicting more shrinkage at .com and .net in 2025, despite a few notes of optimism from its CEO. The company said last nig...
DomainIncite.com - Friday, February 7, 2025 - 10:47
These are the .gov domains Trump has deleted so far  140
US government domain names covering policies on child support benefits, law enforcement accountability, and clean energy are among over...
DomainIncite.com - Friday, February 7, 2025 - 8:13
Did Trump just create the world’s next ccTLD?  102
Could there be a .gz? I’m sometimes happy that DI has such a narrow beat. Today, it means I don’t have to discuss the legal...
DomainIncite.com - Wednesday, February 5, 2025 - 10:33
$3,000 to do a Whois lookup?  122
ICANN’s Registration Data Request Service cost hundreds, maybe even thousands, of dollars every time it was used in its first yea...
DomainIncite.com - Monday, February 3, 2025 - 9:35
PIR to join GlobalBlock, but its crown jewel won’t  142
Public Interest Registry is set to join GlobalBlock, the multi-TLD trademark blocking network, following approval of a series of ICANN ...
DomainIncite.com - Friday, January 31, 2025 - 8:10
LA wildfire victims get domain deletes delay  107
Victims of the recent wildfires in the Los Angeles area have been offered special relief from renewing their expiring domains, accordin...
DomainIncite.com - Friday, January 31, 2025 - 7:38
.free domains to finally arrive as Amazon reveals three gTLD launches  178
Amazon Registry has revealed launch dates for three of its long-dormant gTLDs, and they have the potential to be the most popular of it...
DomainIncite.com - Friday, January 31, 2025 - 6:57
Six more gTLDs shown the door, five may be auctioned  174
There are to be six fewer gTLDs on the internet, after ICANN terminated its registry contracts with two companies. Asia Green IT System...
DomainIncite.com - Thursday, January 30, 2025 - 13:24
Registrar terminated after ignoring Whois transition  102
A registrar has lost its right to sell gTLD domains in part due to its failure to migrate from Whois to RDAP. Spain-based Abansys &...
DomainIncite.com - Thursday, January 30, 2025 - 8:5
$10 million ICANN giveaway winners picked  182
ICANN has picked the beneficiaries of up to $10 million it plans to give away in the first year of its Grant Program. The board of dire...
DomainIncite.com - Thursday, January 30, 2025 - 6:26
Whois officially died today  245
Domain registries and registrars are no longer obliged to offer Whois services as of today, the deadline ICANN set for formally sunsett...
DomainIncite.com - Tuesday, January 28, 2025 - 11:13
Typo left MasterCard open to hackers for years  143
A typo in MasterCard’s DNS configuration left the company open to hackers for years, it has emerged. As first reported by Krebs O...
DomainIncite.com - Thursday, January 23, 2025 - 8:29
Could ICANN approve an R-word gTLD?  173
ICANN could be faced with the headache of approving or rejecting a new gTLD containing a term broadly considered a slur for the first t...
DomainIncite.com - Wednesday, January 22, 2025 - 11:3
These are the TLD growers and shrinkers of 2024 (part two)  139
Following on from the annual ccTLD growth statistics DI published last week, today we’ll look at the gTLDs, where .shop was by fa...
DomainIncite.com - Monday, January 20, 2025 - 13:3
GoDaddy ordered to stop lying about crappy security  167
GoDaddy has agreed to roll out some pretty basic security measures and has been told to stop lying about how secure its hosting is, und...
DomainIncite.com - Thursday, January 16, 2025 - 10:52

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