Verisign last week pledged not to increase the registry fee for any of the top-level domains they manage in 2020 as a way of assisting registrants during the current Coronavirus/Covid-19 pandemic. For .com though, that fee is set to increase in 2021 as Verisign got the green light to increase the registry fee in the…
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All .ZA Websites Required To Link Government Covid-19 Portal
All websites that use a .za domain name are required to link back to the South African government’s Coronavirus information page, according to a regulation published in the Government Gazette on 26 March. According to clause 5.1.4, “all internet sites operating within a .zaDNA top level domain name must have a landing page with a…
ICANN Chair Discusses The Next Generation and Internet Governance and Future of the DNS: Domain Pulse 2020
ICANN Chair Maarten Botterman with fellow panellists Wolfgang Kleinwächter and Roberto Gaetano on the “Internet Governance Next Generation” panel discussion, looking towards fellow “next generation” panellists at Domain Pulse 2020 in Innsbruck. Young people are the future. And the next generation was the feature of the first morning of the Domain Pulse conference in Innsbruck,…
Nominet Identifies Around 500 Potentially Malicious .UK Domains Related To Covid-19
Nominet has suspended over 180 .uk domain names related to the current Covid-19/Coronavirus pandemic with a blend of manual and automated checking processes that has helped the .uk registry to identify, at the point of registration, which new domains are likely to be used for phishing. When a domain is identified as suspicious – based…
NIC Chile Responds To Coronavirus Giving Registrants More Time
With COVID-19 (coronavirus) wreaking havoc around the world, NIC Chile has given registrants of .cl domain names some respite in case they’re not able to pay for their domain name renewal in time before they would normally be deleted for non-payment. NIC Chile announced they will delay deactivation and subsequent cancellation of domain names that…