In the earnings call today, Verisign (VRSN) announced that it was in “in the final stages of drafting the new Root Zone Maintainer Agreement with ICANN “to perform this Root Zone Maintainer…
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The ICA Is Having a Coming Out Party At Namescon; Come Join US
Most of you know that I have been a long-time member and strong supporter of the Internet Commerce Association. Anyone who has had to face a UDRP, or seen the policies that…
Donuts: We are not Going To Delete New gTLD Extensions
Donuts has responded to last Friday’s cybersecurity consulting firm Internet Identity (IID) report predicting “the eventual demise of any number of new generic top-level domains (gTLDs) and the websites populated within them—primarily…
Former VP of ICANN Hired By Facebook For “New Domain Name System Strategy & Management Team”
Denise Michel who was formerly with ICANN as VP of Strategic Initiatives and Advisor to the President, has been hired by Facebook to work on Facebook’s new “Domain Name System Strategy and…
Godaddy May Be The World’s Largest Domain Registrar But Not For New gTLD’s
Godaddy.com, which is the world’s largest domain name registrar (having the most domain names under management) is no longer the number 1 domain name registrar for new gTLD domains. According to ntldstats.com,…
.XYZ Did Not Block 12K Domains on Request of China; Liberty.xyz is Owned & We Have His email
Its been an interesting couple of weeks for the .XYZ registry. It all started when Domainincite.com published a post on October 12th, talking about that .XYZ might block almost 40,000 domain names…
3 Applicants For New gTLD .Radio File For Independent Review Process
According to a press release out today, BRS Media, has filed, in conjunction with two other applicants, an Independent Review Process in accordance with Article IV, section 3 of the ICANN Bylaws…