Domain Pulse 2018 got underway in Munich at BMW Welt Thursday with a keynote to kick off proceedings that indirectly reassured the record 450 attendees their jobs may not be at risk after all due to emerging technologies. In a presentation by Matthias Horx, Trend Researcher and Futurologist from zukunftsInstitut, considered the most influential trend…
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.IS Shortens Its Grace Period
The grace period (i.e the period from when a domain name is suspended until it is deleted) for .is domains has been 60 days since .is domain names were available. This period will soon be shortened to 30 days, counting from the renewal date. The reason for this is simply to get deleted domains one…
Global Domain Registrations Climb Up, But .NET and New gTLDs Slide Down: Verisign
Global domain name registrations continue to rise, with approximately 332.4 million registrations at the end of 2017 across all top level domains, according to the latest Verisign Domain Name Industry Brief out today. The increase for the fourth quarter was approximately 1.7 million domain names, or 0.5%, from the third quarter and 3.1 million, or…
Donuts No Longer Just a “New” gTLD Company After Acquiring .TRAVEL
Donuts, with 238 new gTLDs and 3.629 million registrations according to nTLDstats, the largest of any registry by far, has added another gTLD to its portfolio, but this time it’s the legacy gTLD: .travel. Donuts acquired the .travel generic top level domain from registry operator Tralliance Registry Management Company, who was delegated the gTLD in…
EURid Suspends Almost 26,000 Domains With Ties To Identity Fraud
EURid, the .eu and .ею registry, suspended 25,756 domain names with ties to identity fraud om 29 January. It was more than 5,600 above the 2017 figure of 20,126, of which 2,872 related to EURid’s ongoing collaboration with law enforcement. The crackdown on domain names is part of EURid’s focus on the safety of online…