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Verisign Gets Green Light To Up .COM R...
Verisign last week pledged not to increase the registry fee for any of the top-level domains they manage in 2020 as a way of assisting registrants during the current Coronavirus/Covid-19 pandemic. For .com though, that fee is set to increase in 2021 as Verisign got the green light to increase the registry fee in the last four of the six years of the current agreement.Back in November 2018 the Department of Commerce's National Telecommunications and Infor
All .ZA Websites Required To Link Gove...
All websites that use a .za domain name are required to link back to the South African government's Coronavirus information page, according to a regulation published in the Government Gazette on 26 March.According to clause 5.1.4, 'all internet sites operating within a .zaDNA top level domain name must have a landing page with a visible link to www.sacoronavirus.co.za.'The regulations were made by Stella Ndabeni-Abrahams, who is the Minister of Communica
ICANN Chair Discusses The Next Generat...
ICANN Chair Maarten Botterman with fellow panellists Wolfgang Kleinwchter and Roberto Gaetano on the 'Internet Governance Next Generation' panel discussion, looking towards fellow 'next generation' panellists at Domain Pulse 2020 in Innsbruck.Young people are the future. And the next generation was the feature of the first morning of the Domain Pulse conference in Innsbruck, Austria, in February. First up was a keynote by ICANN's Chair Maarten Botterman titled My Vi
Nominet Identifies Around 500 Potentia...
Nominet has suspended over 180 .uk domain names related to the current Covid-19/Coronavirus pandemic with a blend of manual and automated checking processes that has helped the .uk registry to identify, at the point of registration, which new domains are likely to be used for phishing.When a domain is identified as suspicious based on algorithm and then a manual check are suspended until, as Eleanor Bradley, MD Registry Solutions and Public Benefit at Nomi
NIC Chile Responds To Coronavirus Givi...
With COVID-19 (coronavirus) wreaking havoc around the world, NIC Chile has given registrants of .cl domain names some respite in case they're not able to pay for their domain name renewal in time before they would normally be deleted for non-payment.NIC Chile announced they will delay deactivation and subsequent cancellation of domain names that registrants have not paid for the renewals. They note the greatest difficulty for registrants could be those that
Nominet To Introduce Law Enforcement L...
Domain names suspended due to criminal activity for the United Kingdom's ccTLD will soon display or be redirected to law enforcement landing pages, the .uk registry Nominet announced Tuesday.Working initially in collaboration with the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) and the City of London's Police Intellectual Property Crime Unit (PIPCU), Nominet will redirect web users to a secure site providing consumer advice and education for p