Google to drop EIGHT new gTLDs173 Google Registry has announced launch details for eight new gTLDs that it has been sitting on for almost a decade. It plans to launch .f...
.org back-end contract up for grabs103 Public Interest Registry has started vetting potential registry service provider replacements for Identity Digital, ahead of a formal r...
The end of “do-nothing” ICANN?103 ICANN’s new gTLD program hit a remarkable milestone earlier this month. Measured from the 2012 application window, on March 6 it ...
.com was a drag on the industry in Q4163 The .com gTLD was a growth drag on domain name registrations in the fourth quarter, if the latest figures in Verisign’s Domain Na...
.art links DNS and alt-root ENS217 UK Creative Ideas, the .art gTLD registry, has started offering its registrants the ability to register names on the blockchain-based a...
Brands want new gTLD fast track174 The Brand Registry Group is to propose a set of principles for the next round of ICANN’s new gTLD program that it thinks would se...
Whois disclosure system coming this year?252 ICANN has approved the creation of a Whois Disclosure System, almost six years after Europe’s GDPR rules tore up the rule book on...
Euro registrars merge to form Your.Online171 French registrar Gandi and Dutch registrar holding group Total Webhosting Solutions have announced they have merged to form a new compa...
Identity Digital to launch .watches this month180 Identity Digital has announced the launch timetable for its .watches gTLD. Sunrise will kick off on March 28, running for two months un...
Typo .com on sale for $94 million223 Somebody has listed what they call the “Saudi National Domain” for sale for a laughable $94 million, despite it apparently ...