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More Domain Industry Consolidation as ...
The British-based CentralNic has acquired the parent company of the German Key-Systems, KeyDrive, for $35.8 million it was announced today. The acquisition will see the combined group become the 11th largest registrar globally by generic top level domain volume and will be among the top 5 registry service providers by number of registry clients. Key-Systems, which his owned by a holding company called KeyDrive based in Luxembourg, includes a number of prominent domai
Donuts Hurts .NEWS Credibility in Sale...
Donuts this week announced the sale of 7 .news domain names to Webseed in a 6-figure deal that happened in 2017 with websites appearing for the domain names earlier this year. But has Donuts gained 'a six-figure price' but just hurt the top level domain's reputation by selling, and promoting the sale of, such prominent domain names to a company that has no news credibility and could easily be described as provider of clickbait and science denials? The domain names so
World.Rugby launches .rugby as global ...
World Rugby has made history by launching the .rugby internet domain name, kicking-off a digital revolution that will deliver multiple promotional benefits to the global rugby community. World Rugby's website has become www.world.rugby and all of the international federation's digital properties, including email addresses, are being seamlessly transitioned as part of a phased major digital re-brand. With competition for a share of the youth audience in the digital sp
.GR Launches . on 10 July
Greece's internationalised ccTLD .?? is set to launch on 10 July at 11:00 local time, the registry has announced. In an announcement by the registry ICS-FORTH GR, they advise that the registration of domain names under the .?? country code top level domain will be possible for every interested person or legal entity, as long as the domain name of choice (or any homographs) is not already registered under .gr. To begin, ICS-FORTH GR explains, for a period of 3 months
CENTR Publishes Report on ICANN62
Didn't get to the ICANN meeting in Panama? Spent too much time at the bar and need to catch up on what's been going on? Or were working elsewhere in your own meetings and want to catch up on what happened? If so, CENTR has the answer. They've published their 'Report on ICANN62'. The 8 pages of reports on the meeting covers a ccNSO Report and a GAC Report, which included a GDPR update on the implementation of the temporary specification. To download the CENTR report,
After 21 Years ICANN Going Back to Ger...
For the first time in 21 years, ICANN will hold a public meeting in Germany in October 2020 the global domain name overseer announced at its public meeting in Panama last week. DENIC, the .de ccTLD registry, and eco, the German Association of the Internet Industry will be joint hosts of ICANN's 69th public meeting to be held in Hamburg from 17 to 22 October 2020. The previous meeting held in Germany was ICANN's second, held in Berlin in May 1999. Back in 1999, the me