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.BARCELONA Cuts Price To Make TLD More...
The Barcelona City Council has cut the price of .barcelona domain names in a bid for it 'to be accessible to all the citizens of the metropolitan area.' The price reduction is ongoing and came into effect on 10 September. While it's the registry fee that has been reduced, the fee charged to registrars, registrars are free to charge their own fees for registration, as usual. The reduced fee wasn't publicised in the announcement from domini.barcelona. Additionally, on
Use of 7 Dirty Words Now Allowed in .US
After intervention from the Electronic Frontier Foundation and the Harvard University Cyberlaw Clinic, it's now possible to register .us domain names with the 'seven dirty words'. The change of course in policy by the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA), part of the Department of Commerce, and Neustar, the .us registry, came about following the registration of the domain name fucknazis.us by Jeremy Rubin. According to a post by the Cyber
Has GDPR Contributed To Spam Decline 2...
Recently threat intelligence organisation Recorded Future published a blog post suggesting 'spammers are not at least at this time rushing to launch new campaigns because of GDPR-enforced WHOIS privacy rules.' The General Data Protection Regulation that came into force on 25 May, seeks to give individuals more control over their personal data and to simplify data protection regulation in the European Union to one rule for all countries. Recorded Future published sp
Canon Moves Email Addresses To Their ....
Canon Inc. recently announced that as of 20 August, their company email addresses that until now have ended with @canon.co.jp will now make use of their .canon new gTLD and end with @mail.canon. In February 2015, Canon Inc. attained the usage rights to the .canon new generic top level domain and, in May 2016, Canon changed the URL of its global website from canon.com to global.canon. The gTLD is gradually being adopted by Canon Group companies around the world. Beca
DomainTools Lack of Whois Data Severel...
Whois data is 'more important than ever before' as malicious actors seek to undermine democracy, according to a post on the DomainTools blog. '2018 has been a tough year to be a domain name Whois record. For years Whois has been a favorite and uniquely effective tool of security researchers and law enforcement to battle cybercrime and cyberattacks, yet now that data will be kept under wraps to be metered out, if at all, under the watchful eye of domain name registrar
Africa Registry Launches Worlds Leadin...
Africa Registry, part of the CentralNic Group, is a leading provider of domain names for Africa since 2005, is delighted to announce a new programme from its gateway service RRPproxy to empower domain name vendors, registrars and resellers in Africa to sell domains using over 1,000 TLDs, and to benefit from a $50 free credit for all new accounts. As well as offering almost five times more domain name choices than available through other African gateways, Africa Regis