It’s the last week for comments on ICANN’s proposals on how it deals with registration data collected for generic top level domains and become permanently compatible with the EU’s GDPR. ICANN has been struggling with how to be compliant with the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) that came into effect in May this…
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.IR Registrations Hit One Million Mark
Registrations of second level .ir domain names passed the one million mark in recent days statistics from the registry IRNIC show. The most recent statistics show there are 1,002,565 .ir domain names registered under Iran’s country code top level domain. There are also a number of third level registrations with the largest being .co.ir with…
ICANN: Technical Study Group on Access to Non-Public Registration Data Begins Work
The Technical Study Group on Access to Non-Public Registration Data (TSG-RD) began its work this week. The group is made up of 10 invited members with expertise in the Registration Data Access Protocol (RDAP), distributed authentication/authorization technologies, systems architecture, design-thinking and other relevant topics. The group is coordinated by Ram Mohan, the CTO of Afilias…
.DK Introducing Domain Name Transfer Fee
DK Hostmaster is to introduce a fee for transferring .dk domain names for the first time as of 1 January 2019. The fee will be DKK50 (€6.70/US$7.60). DK Hostmaster, Denmark’s country code top level domain (ccTLD) registry, said in their announcement the fee must be paid when the new registrant accepts the transfer on DK…
Elon Musk Reveals He Paid $11 Million For Tesla.com
Elon Musk revealed Sunday he paid $11 million for tesla.com in 2016, making it the second largest publicly revealed price paid for a domain name. Musk revealed the purchase price in a series of Tweets in response to a promotion for CBS’s 60 Minutes program where he was being interviewed. In the promotional video Musk…