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| Blog | Age | Hits | Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 3005d | 322 | Two companies “capture” auDA Membership votes of the Australian ccTLD registry auDA could now essentially be captured by just two companies, potentially including new back-end provider Afilias, according to data from a disgruntled former director.... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 3005d | 315 | Facebook clashes with registrars after massive private... Facebook is on the warpath, testing the limits of personal data disclosure in the post-GDPR world. Via an intermediary called AppDetex, the company recently filed 500 requests for non-public Whois contact information... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 3007d | 226 | Baidu gets Chinese approval for .baidu It seems China s Draconian licensing program for TLD registries is not limited to foreigners. Chinese internet giant Baidu on Friday became the latest new gTLD registry operator to get the nod to run a TLD by the... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 3007d | 373 | ICANN rejected Israel as meeting venue due to threat from... Israel was rejected as a possible venue for one of ICANN s 2020 public meetings due to concerns about Middle East violence, DI has learned. A proposal to host a meeting in Tel Aviv was discounted, with ICANN staff... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 3007d | 291 | ICANN’s GDPR lawsuit bounced up to appeals court ICANN s lawsuit against Tucows German subsidiary EPAG has been bounced up to a higher court in Cologne. The suit seeks to force Tucows to continue to collect the Admin-C and Tech-C fields of the Whois spec, something... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 3007d | 427 | Neustar swaps out CEO, PIR looking for new CEO There are to be changes at the top at two of the industry s stalwarts. Neustar has announced that eight-year CEO Lisa Hook has stepped aside to be replaced by Charles Gottdiener, who comes from the world of private... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 3007d | 447 | Is the new Whois policy group already doomed to fail? ICANN s Generic Names Supporting Organization has set itself extremely aggressive, some might say impossible, targets for its emergency Whois policy work. The GNSO Council on Thursday approved the charter for a new... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 3013d | 262 | auDA chair defends $9 million windfall as no-confidence... The chair of .au registry auDA has appealed to its membership for calm ahead of a vote of no confidence in himself, the CEO, and two of his fellow directors. Chris Leptos yesterday defended the AUD 12 million ($9... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 3013d | 360 | Swiss registry gets more traffic than Google, kinda Switch, the Swiss ccTLD registry, has started publishing a monthly list of the .ch domains with the most DNS traffic, a list that Switch itself currently tops. The list ranks the top 1,000 .ch domains by the number of... |
| Stephane Bortzmeyer | 3013d | 336 | Testing DNS-over-TLS servers with the RIPE Atlas probes The RIPE Atlas probes (https://atlas.ripe.net/) can now perform DNS-over-TLS measurements, following RFC 7858. Several DNS-over-TLS servers exist. This article shows rapidly a few measurements. |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 3015d | 400 | Pritz to be named chair of Whois group Former ICANN senior vice president Kurt Pritz is expected to be named chair of the group tasked with reforming Whois in the post-GDPR world. Sources familiar with the situation tell DI that Pritz was selected from three... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 3015d | 347 | Donuts confirms six-figure .news buyer used a fake name Mike Texas is in fact noted conspiracy theorist Mike Adams. New gTLD registry Donuts confirmed with DI over the weekend that the buyer of six figures worth of platinum .news domain names used a fake name. The company... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 3015d | 480 | KeyDrive reverses into CentralNic in $55 million deal CentralNic this morning confirmed that it has signed a deal to merge with KeyDrive to dramatically grow its market share in the registrar and registry markets. The deal, technically a reverse takeover, is worth up to $55... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 3015d | 229 | .pharmacy TLD faces action after losing complaint over... ICANN has hit the .pharmacy gTLD registry with a breach notice after a complaint from a Canadian web site that was refused a .pharmacy domain. The US National Association of Boards of Pharmacy failed to operate the TLD... |
| ISC.org | 3015d | 11 | DNS & BIND Training ISC s training partner, Men Mice, has announced public courses for September through November, in Amsterdam, Geneva, Denver, the San Francisco area, and Zurich. |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 3019d | 247 | Donuts makes six-figure .news sale to dangerous conspiracy.. Donuts has sold a package of platinum .news domains to a network of dubious news sites peddling what many describe as dangerous pseudo-scientific nonsense. A company called WebSeed acquired science.news, food.news,... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 3019d | 246 | MMX gets four more gTLDs approved for China use MMX s Chinese subsidiary has received the government nod for four more of its new gTLDs to operate in the country. The approved strings are the lifestyle-oriented .fashion, .luxe, .yoga and .fit. Getting the nod from the... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 3020d | 232 | Four more dot-brands call it quits Four more dot-brand gTLDs are to disappear after their operators decided they don t want them any more. These are the latest victims of the voluntary cull: High-priced bling-maker Richemont, an enthusiastic new gTLD... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 3020d | 274 | Plural gTLDs to be banned over confusion concerns Singular and plural versions of the same word are likely to be banned as coexisting gTLDs in future. The ICANN community working group looking at rules for subsequent application rounds reckons having both versions of... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 3021d | 237 | Digital archery ruled out for next new gTLD round The oft-mocked digital archery system will not be making a return when ICANN finally starts taking more new gTLD applications. That s the current thinking of the ICANN community working group looking at subsequent... |
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