ICANN has moved a step closer to delegating the .amazon top-level domain to Amazon, the online ecommerce company, after 7 years of negotiations with South American governments, who have been lobbying against the approval, saying “seven years is sufficient time for the parties to reach a reasonable resolution, and in the interest of continued fairness…
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EURid Reminds Of Final Date For Cyrillic .EU Domains
EURid is reminding registrants of .eu domain names that have Cyrillic character domain names will be deleted on 31 May following a 3 year phase out period that was announced in May 2016. Cyrillic characters will remain able to be registered in the Cyrillic .eu, .ею. EURid recommends that for any remaining .eu registrants with…
ARIN Wins Legal Case Over Fraudulent IPv4 Address Scheme
ARIN logo The American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN) reported this week of their defeat of an elaborate multi-year scheme to defraud the Internet community of approximately 735,000 IPv4 addresses. Winning the case meant the return of all the addresses and stopped the defrauding party from continuing their scheme. The emergent IPv4 address transfer market…
Sedo Drops Minimum Fee and Lowers Minimum Bid For Rest of 2019
From 6 May, Sedo has dropped the minimum fee they charge when domain names are sold through the aftermarket platform, as well as lowering the minimum bid required to $20 from $90. Previously there was a commission of between 10% and 20% of the sale price on each domain name sold, but there was a…
ICANN Webinar Invitation: Evolving ICANN’s Multistakeholder Model
Today [7 May], ICANN invites the community to continue an ongoing conversation about evolving ICANN‘s multistakeholder model of governance. Please join one of two webinars on 14 May 2019 at 1600 UTC or 15 May at 2300 UTC. When the community came together at ICANN64 in Kobe, Japan, they engaged in a facilitated conversation about…