ICANN announced Friday they had lost another round in their battle to get EPAG, a subsidiary of Tucows, to enforce their “temporary specification” on the collection of domain name registrant data. For the third time the German courts have ruled against ICANN. This time the Appellate Court determined that it would not issue an injunction…
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Romanian .EU Registrations Boom While British Decline as Brexit Looms
Romanian domain name registrations in the .eu TLD surged 28.2% in the second quarter of 2018, according to the latest EURid Quarterly Update. And while there were 171,843 new registrations for the second quarter, total registrations dropped from 3,824,289 at the end of the first quarter to 3,790,450 at the end of the second, which…
Verisign Launches Hebrew gTLD As It Struggles To Make An Impact With IDN gTLDs
Verisign has launched a phased rollout of the קום. new gTLD with a Sunrise period having commenced on 30 July and running through until 4 September. The registry operator for .com and .net has struggled to make an impact with the first 3 of their IDN gTLDs that launched into General Availability 2 years ago…
ICANN: Recommendations for Managing IDN Variant Top-Level Domains
Brief Overview Purpose: Recommendations for managing Internationalized Domain Name (IDN) variant labels for top level domains (TLDs) have been developed by ICANN organization. The relevant materials along with the recommendations are being published to seek community feedback for finalizing them. Current Status: The community has identified a need for IDN variant TLDs; however, the ICANN…
EURid supports clean water initiative in Uganda for second year
EURid, the .eu and .ею registry manager, is supporting the Ugandan Borehole project to offset its CO2 emissions generated in 2017. In 2017, the total carbon footprint of a .eu domain name was 0.035. The total carbon footprint for a .eu domain name in 2016 was 0.039. This is a reduction of more than 10%…