The world football’s governing body, FIFA, has acquired a .sport domain name portfolio, the manager of the new gTLD, the Global Association of International Sports Federations (GAISF) announced. FIFA currently uses fifa.com as their domain name. With 211 national federations and more than 270 million people playing football worldwide, FIFA is one of the biggest…
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ICANN: Initial Report of the Expedited Policy Development Process (EPDP) on the Temporary Specification for gTLD Registration Data Team
Brief Overview Purpose: This public comment proceeding seeks to obtain input on the Initial Report of the EPDP on the Temporary Specification for gTLD Registration Data Team. The EPDP Team is tasked with evaluating the Temporary Specification on gTLD Registration Data (Temp Spec) and deciding whether it should become an ICANN Consensus Policy as is,…
Sales of Liquid Domain Names (Short .COMs) Jumps 70% to $9.2m in Q3: GGRG
The total volume of disclosed liquid domain name sales for the third quarter of 2018 jumped 70% from $5.4 million to $9.2 million, according to the Liquid Domains Market Overview for the third quarter of 2018 from GGRG.com. There was also a 50% increase in the volume of escrow.com sales, which jumped from $12 to…
New and African TLDs Growing Strongest, TLDs in Americas Weakest: CENTR
Globally domain name registrations have grown 5.7% in the year to the end of October to 344 million, with growth highest among new gTLDs (7.1%) and African ccTLDs (6.2%), while growth is lowest in the Americas (1.4%), Europe (2.6%) and Asia (2.9%), according to the latest CENTRstats Global TLD Report. While growth is highest among…
EURALO and CENTR Sign MoU at IGF 2018
EURALO and CENTR announced Tuesday they signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) alongside the 2018 Internet Governance Forum (IGF) in Paris to formalise their existing relationship promoting internet coordination activities in Europe. In their announcement, the European Regional At-Large Organization (EURALO) and the Council of European National Top-Level Domain Registries (CENTR) note that both parties…