According to smh.com.au, folowing the led of New Zealand and the Britain, Australia’s regulatory body for domain names, .au Domain Administration (auDA), recently announced its 2015 Names Policy Panel proposal that individuals…
Category: Domain Registries
There Are Now 2,121 ICANN Accredited Domain Name Registrars
During remarks made at the 54th ICANN Meeting being held in Dublin, Akram Atallah, the President of the Global Domain Domains Division of ICANN stated that there are now 2,121 ICANN Accredited…
Amazon Registry Appears To Be Off To A Rough Start
We wrote a couple of weeks ago about Amazon launching Amazonregistry.com as a domain name registrar for at least the new gTLD’s At the time the site resolved but was not taking…
CentralNic Profit More than Doubles in 1st Half of 2015
CentralNic (LON:CNIC) reported today that its profits more than doubled in the first half of 2015. CentralNic, which is a technical partner and wholesale distributor for web domains, saw a 213% rise…
CentralNic Appoints Mergers & Acquisitions Specialist Mike Turner As Non-Executive Chairman
Internet domain group CentralNic (LON:CNIC) has appointed tech mergers and acquisitions specialist Mike Turner as the internet domain firm’s new non-executive chairman. Turner, a partner and head of technology media and communications…
.XYZ Sees Nearly 20K New Domain Registrations In 2 Days Since ABC.XYZ Announcement
.xyz registry is smiling all the way to the bank after Google announced Alphabet Inc. and the domain name used, ABC.XYZ with nearly 20,000 newly registered .xyz domain names since the announcement.
.CO Turns Five: With 1.8M Domains: 120 .CO Startups Raised $460M In Funding in 2015
Neustar, Inc. (NYSE: NSR), sent out a press release today in celebration of the fifth birthday of the .CO web extension and there are released some pretty interesting stats: • Over 1.8…