auDA’s members are revolting against recent developments within the .au policy regulator following moves to bring the registry under auDA’s wings without consultation and transparency and accountability disappearing. As a result, a number of members have today “expressed their dissatisfaction with the current board and management by using the provisions and protections of Corporations Act…
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CIRA Publicly Releases DNS Firewall To Protect Canadians From Ransomware and Malware
The Canadian Internet Registration Authority (CIRA), the .ca registry, has publicly released its D-Zone DNS Firewall, a cloud-based cybersecurity solution that protects organisations from the growing threat of malware and ransomware. CIRA’s DNS Firewall helps organisations block access to malicious content such as ransomware before it can reach their network. Ransomware targets an organisation’s network…
Sedo Promotes Matthias Meyer-Schönherr to CSO
Sedo veteran Matthias Meyer-Schönherr has been appointed Chief Sales Officer (CSO) Global in one of 2 management changes announced by Sedo this week, the other being Dima Beitzke who will be stepping down to pursue a new opportunity outside of the domain industry. The management of both the North American and International sales teams will…
DENIC Obtains ICANN Accreditation as New gTLD Data Escrow Agent
DENIC has been accredited as an Escrow Agent under ICANN’s new gTLD programme and thus officially authorised to operate a back-up storage service for the business data of domain registries (Registry Data Escrow, RyDE), the German ccTLD registry announced today. Following ICANN’s approval, DENIC became one of nine so-called Authorised New gTLD Data Escrow Agents…
.AFRICA Landrush Launches Today | DomainPulse.com – The Beat on the Domain Name Industry
The .africa Landrush period commences today, 5 June, meaning the general public gets their first chance to register domain names in the African new gTLD. The Sunrise period that ended 2 June saw, according to the registry for .africa, ZA Central Registry (ZACR), “significant successes” with “many of the continent’s biggest intellectual property owners across…