Domain Pulse, the annual domain name conference of the German-speaking world, is only days away. It will be held in the beautiful Swiss capital of Bern on Monday 18 and Tuesday 19 February. The 2019 hosts are SWITCH, the Swiss ccTLD manager. Alternate hosts are nic.at, who will host it in 2020 and DENIC (2021).…
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CIRA Migrates Canada’s .CA To Their Fury Registry Platform
Canada’s ccTLD manager CIRA has announced that Canada’s ccTLD, .ca, is now powered by their industry leading Fury Registry Platform. CIRA’s Fury Registry Platform is a next-generation top-level domain (TLD) management platform with features and functionality designed for the modern TLD business. Fury features a modern interface with role-based access to key registry functions that…
New .EU and .ЕЮ Registrations Continue to Grow, But Total Registrations Drop
There were 171,667 new .eu and .ею domain name registrations in the fourth quarter of 2018, but despite this growth, total domains under management decreased from 3,747,879 as of 31 October to 3,684,750 at 31 December according to EURid’s Q4 2018 Progress Report released last week. Portugal, Norway and Cyprus, as in the third quarter…
Bitcoin, GDPR, Chinese Economy, New gTLDs: Giuseppe Graziano Discusses From An Investors’ Perspective
The domain name investor side of the industry is the focus of today’s Domain Pulse Q&A where Giuseppe Graziano gives his views on the year just gone, the year ahead, GDPR and the relevance of domain names. On 2018, Graziano says the EU’s GDPR had less impact than expected, but overall for investors its impact…
Ill.com Tops First Weekly DNJ Chart for 2019
Ill.com got 2019’s Domain Name Journal chart off to a slow start after we started to get use to the six-figure sales topping the charts, often more than one. In a sale brokered by Sedo’s Dave Evanson, it sold for $70,000. Maybe it was the time of the year, maybe that “ill” has negative connotations…