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Postal and Telecommunications Regulatory Authority of Zimbabwe (POTRAZ) logo Zimbabwe’s ccTLD management is about to be brought into the 21st century with the government calling for public comments on a DNS Framework Consultation paper that was released Monday. The paper outlines the limitations of the current setup such as no single registry, no functional WHOIS,…

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ICANN65 has only just concluded and ICANN has opened registration for the next ICANN meeting – ICANN66, which will also be the 20th annual general meeting – to be held in Montréal, Canada, from 2 to 7 November. To register for the meeting, go to: https://events.icann.org/icann66-montreal/registration This latest Domain News has been posted from here:…

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English may be the world’s lingua franca, online and offline, but when it comes to content on websites using European country code and geographic top-level domains, local languages as would be expected dominate. But the proportion of content in English and the local language varies markedly across the TLDs. And when it comes to endangered…

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The CentralNic Group announced another acquisition Monday, with the domain name registry and registrar group announcing it has entered into a conditional agreement to acquire the German/Canadian Hexonet for up to €10 million. Hexonet comprises Hexonet GmbH, Germany, and Mediasiren Advertising, Inc., Canada, and their respective subsidiaries. It’s CentralNic’s fourth acquisition in the past 12…

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The money.com.au domain name sold last year (apparently), and reported this week, in what is probably the biggest reported sale to date of a .au domain name, selling for A$400,000 (US$280,320) in a private sale. The sale was announced on the Cooper Mills Lawyers blog Thursday and sold to Shaun McGowan who is launching a…

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