Verisign continues to pump out strong financial results with the fourth quarter of 2017 showing revenue of $296 million, an increase of 3% over the same quarter in 2016, while net income was slightly over $103 million, about $1.73 million down on the same quarter in 2016. On the domain name side of things, Verisign…
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Brunei’s ccTLD Redelegated To Government Agency From Subsidiary BNNIC
According to a report in the Borneo Bulletin, the .bn ccTLD has been redelegated to the government’s communication agency, the Authority for Info-communications Technology Industry of Brunei Darussalam (AITI), from the Brunei Darussalam Network Information Centre Sdn Bhd (BNNIC). But as BNNIC is a subsidiary of AITI, the redelegation will mean transferring the registry functions…
.LONDON Initiative Showcases Businesses Using Their new gTLD
It’s a crowded world out there for top level domains with good, and sometimes even compelling, reasons why a business should choose between a number of different ones. So .london has come up with an initiative to help showcase small businesses using .London domain names and empower those looking to set up their own business…
Australia’s Own ccTLD Not Good Enough for auDA!
Apparently Australia’s ccTLD isn’t good enough for auDA, the .au policy and regulatory body. In advertisements in daily papers promoting a series of seminars on “the biggest changes in 30 years” to .au, auDA deemed it better to use .ly domain name than .au! The series of advertisements with the, well, let’s be polite, snafu,…
ICANN: Call for Experts to Study the Application of Root Zone Label Generation Rules
ICANN is forming a technical group to study how to apply the Root Zone Label Generation Rules (RZ-LGR) for the Internationalized Domain Names (IDN) country code top-level domains (ccTLDs) and IDN generic top-level domains (gTLDs). The study group will be composed of technical subject matter experts on IDNs and the RZ-LGR from the Supporting Organizations…