The second quarter of 2017 was a stellar one for .club with 666, the number of the beast, premium domain names sold via auctions through the registrar channel and aftermarket platforms, and directly by the registry. Total premium sales for the quarter were over $205,000 in one-time fees and more than $2.5 million in top-line…
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FoI Request Forces auDA to Make Public Documents They Tried to Keep Secret
The .au policy and regulatory body, auDA, has been forced to make available 115 documents, previously published on their website but deleted under the new management. However going forward auDA has vowed to keep the documents secret, to continue to hide the goings on in the organisation. The documents were board minutes and other historical…
.BLOG Commits To Never Increasing Prices for Domains Once Registered
The operator of the .blog new gTLD, Knock Knock Whois There, has announced that once a .blog domain name is registered, the price will never increase. One assumes this only applies to the registry fee, that is the fee KKWT charges registrars. The announcement comes as one of 3 amendments to their Registry-Registrar Agreement that…
KENIC To Begin Rolling Out Second Level .KE Domain Names in July
The Kenyan ccTLD operator KENIC will begin rolling out second level .ke domain names from 23 July, the registry operator announced Thursday through Facebook and Twitter, and they will be available along with the existing third level domains. While no specific dates have been announced other than the launch date, KENIC have published policies [pdf]…
ICANN and Verisign Renew .NET Agreement with 10% Increases Likely to See Registrar Fee of Over $15 by 2023 [updated]
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Verisign has entered into a renewal of the .net Registry Agreement that runs for 6 years until 30 June 2023 with no changes to the material terms to the current .net Registry Agreement from 2011. There is an expectation the agreement will be renewed in 2023 “so long as certain requirements are met”. Important to…