Domain Names
18 January 2013
Pingdom Internet In 2012: How Much, How Many...
Pingdom, a company that covers the uptime monitoring needs of 90 percent of the companies in the world, has published their annual internet numbers for 2012. Issues covered are how many emails, how many websites, how many blogs, how much spam...
04 January 2013
WIPO Statistics Show Cybersquatting Decreases... In Proportion To Global Domain Registrations
WIPO have published the total number of cybersquatting cases on their website for 2012. The number, 2879 is higher than any other year, up from 2764 in 2011 and is certain to result in a news release saying how difficult life is for brand owners. The increase equates to approximately 4.2 percent.
23 December 2012
ICANN Going To Argentina In November 2013, Then Singapore, London, North America in 2014
ICANN have announced they will be heading to Buenos Aires, Argentina, from 17 to 21 November 2013 for the 48th of their thrice yearly meetings.
22 December 2012
ICANN Publishes Final 2012 New gTLD Weekly Update
ICANN has published their final new gTLD Weekly Update for 2012. In the update the organisation has taken the opportunity to pause and take a look back what they have accomplished this year. ICANN notes they have been incredibly busy, and with say that with the community's help, they have accomplished a great deal and made significant progress moving the New gTLD Programme forward.
21 December 2012
Quarter Of A Billion Registered Domain Names On The Planet: Verisign
Verisign announced there were 246 million registered domain names on the planet across all top level domains at the end of September in their latest Domain Name Industry Brief, an increase of 5.7 million on the second quarter, meaning that if similar growth rates continued there would be over a 250 million domain names on the planet today.
20 December 2012
Verisign To Increase .NET Registry Fee
The US government may have been rejected their request to increase the registry fee for .COM domains, but Verisign has announced they will increase the registry fee for .NET domain names as of 1 July 2013.
18 December 2012
ARI Registry Services Pleased With Client Outcomes in New gTLD Priority Draw ARI Registry Services
The priority draw for new generic Top Level Domains was held by ICANN on 18 December in Los Angeles determined the order in which evaluation results will be released for the 1930 applications.
ICANN New gTLD Priority Draw Completed
ICANN have published the preliminary results of the new generic Top Level Domain priority draw with numbers one through to 1766.
17 December 2012
Domain Pulse 2013 Conference Focussing on European New gTLDs
The highlight of the European domain name calendar is fast approaching with the Domain Pulse conference set for 18 and 19 February in the Swiss alpine resort of Davos.
14 December 2012
ICANN Signs Trademark Clearinghouse Agreement With Deloitte
In his latest post on the ICANN blog, ICANN's CEO and president Fadi Chehadé has announced the organisation has signed an agreement with Deloitte Enterprise Risk Services to be the first provider of validation services for the Trademark Clearinghouse.
11 December 2012
DotConnectAfrica Conflict Of Interest Allegations Against ICANN Board Members Unfounded
Allegations of a conflict against ICANN board members Mike Silber and Chris Disspain by DotConnectAfrica, one of two applicants for the .africa generic Top Level Domain, has been dismissed by the ICANN Ombudsman.
07 December 2012
CENTR Releases European Domain Name Statistics Report
The latest CENTR Domain Wire Stat Report shows that Montenegro (.me), Serbia (.rs) and Slovakia (.sk) are the European countries with the highest market share of the local ccTLD with 99 percent, 90 percent and 87 percent respectively.
.EU Registrations Continue To Grow Strongly
Registrations of .eu (European Union) domain names grew by more than seven percent in Q3 2012 year over year for the second consecutive quarter, the latest progress report from the .eu registry, EURid says. The third quarter's net growth rate of 7.4 percent was consistent with Q2's 7.6 percent result.
04 December 2012
Europe Lists gTLD Applications Of Concern Plus Disappointment In Developing Country Applications
The European Commission has expressed concerns outside the Governmental Advisory Committee process about a number of new generic Top Level Domain applications.
03 December 2012
dotHIV Gets Onboard With NZ Bobsled Team Through The Ice Channel
DotHIV is the exclusive charity-partner for New Zealand's bobsled team in the lead up to the 2014 Winter Olympics, the gTLD Applicant announced on World AIDS Day, 1 December. The partnership aims to bring awareness to the fight against AIDS through the German-based initiative.
01 December 2012
New .COM Registry Agreement Says No More Price Rises For Six Years
The US Department of Commerce has finally renewed Verisign's contract to run the .COM registry for the next six years, but surprisingly they have denied the registry's ability to raise prices as part of the approval.
29 November 2012
ICANN Board Forecasts Special Brand Protection To High Profile Non-Profit Organisations
[ICANN news release] The ICANN Board's New gTLD Program Committee has approved two resolutions with the goal of providing interim Domain Name protections to certain non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and Intergovernmental Organizations (IGOs).
27 November 2012
European And US Law Enforcement Agencies Seize 132 Domains Selling Counterfeit Merchandise
European and US law enforcement agencies have taken action against domain names involved in the selling of counterfeit goods, seizing 133 domains, arresting one person in the US and seizing $175,000.
26 November 2012
SWITCH, .CH Registry, Celebrates 25th Anniversary
The SWITCH Foundation, operator of the registry for .CH (Switzerland) domain names, celebrated its 25th anniversary last week. To commemorate the anniversary, SWITCH have had a look back at its 25 years and looked at what it has achieved, and also looked at the future.
ICANN Publishes New gTLD Weekly Update
ICANN has published another of its weekly new gTLD updates covering webinars that have recently happened and that are upcoming, the prioritisation draw that will determine the order in which new gTLD applications are processed, the status of clarifying questions for applications, programme statistics that shows withdrawals and change requests, an update from the Independent Objector and progress on the Trademark Clearinghouse.
21 November 2012
Governments Object To Private Bodies Controlling Generic gTLD Terms
The Australian government is the top objector to new generic Top Level Domain applications with a total of 129 objections. Other top complainants are DCA Trust being the top applicant, with their application for .africa receiving 17 objections from governments while .hotel, with multiple applications for the string, receiving 21 objections.
20 November 2012
ICANN To Examine Role Of Whois
ICANN is to examine the role of Whois, the listing of domain registrants and their contact information, with the board directing the CEO "to launch a new effort to re-examine the purpose of collecting, maintaining and providing access to gTLD registration data."
19 November 2012
Pritz Conflict Of Interest With ARI: Report
The conflict of interest that led to the resignation of ICANN's Kurt Pritz, new generic Top Level Domain guru and officially known as Chief Strategy Officer, was with registry services provider ARI Registry Services according to a Domain Incite report.
16 November 2012
ICANN's Pritz In Shock Resignation Over Conflict Of Interest
Like a bolt from the blue, ICANN has announced that new generic Top Level Domain guru Kurt Pritz, officially known as Chief Strategy Officer, is resigning due to a conflict of interest.
15 November 2012
ICANN To Hold New gTLD "Prioritisation Draw"
December 17 is the day ICANN has set for a "prioritisation draw", or lottery, at the LAX Hilton, Los Angeles, to determine the order in which applications for new generic Top Level Domain strings will be processed. It is anticipated that all applications will be processed within a one and a half year period. And applications for internationalised domain names will be given priority.
