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New and African TLDs Growing Strongest...
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 new gTLDs, with many still launching, as well as African ccTLDs, both have the lowest average number of domain names registered per top le
.ONLINE Becomes 5th New gTLD To Pass 1...
Three years and 3 months after entering general availability, Radix's .online has become their first new gTLD to hit the one million registrations mark, and the fifth overall. Today there are 1.012 million .online registrations according to nTLDStats, 604,00 of which are parked, the highest proportion of the top 5 new gTLDs by registration numbers. Overall the top 5 new generic top level domains are .top with 3.811 million registrations, .loan (2.245m), .xyz (2.220m)
ICANN Reaffirms gTLD Registration Data...
Although ICANN isn't technically American, there's a growing difference of opinion between Europe and 'America' over how to deal with the collection of domain name registrant's registration, or Whois, data. Despite going down 4-0 to German courts in a dispute where EPAG is refusing to abide by ICANN's requirement to collect registration data, ICANN has continued to insist registrars and registries collect the data they require for gTLDs. On Thursday ICANN's Board of
Over Half European Domain Names Are cc...
Globally domain name registrations have grown 2.0% in the 12 months to the end of June, the latest CENTRstats Global TLD Report Q2/2018 reports, but growth rates vary markedly among top level domains. For example, in the 12 months .com grew 5.2% while their Verisign stablemate .net declined 6.0%. The CENTR report covers the global status and registration trends in all top level domains (legacy gTLDs, new gTLDs and ccTLDs), with additional focus on the European ccTLD
ICANN Annual Publication of Financial ...
Today [5 Sept] ICANN announced the publication of several documents containing financial information in accordance with bylaw requirements. The financial information published relates to ICANN, inclusive of its affiliate Public Technical Identifiers (PTI), and to PTI as a separate entity. Audited Financial Statements: ICANN published its FY18 Consolidated Financial Statements, accompanied by the 'unqualified' audit report from BDO LLP, the independent auditors, which
Trump Administration Abandons Obama-Er...
Despite a campaign from some in the domain name industry led by the Internet Commerce Association, the NTIA and Verisign announced Thursday they had agreed to extend and modify the Cooperative Agreement with steep registry fees to be expected. 'These modifications', the NTIA says, 'are in line with policy priorities of the Trump Administration.' 'The changes create a new commitment to content neutrality in the Domain Name System (DNS), provide market-based pricing fl