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New gTLDs Plummet .NET Slides While .C...
The growth in domain names was once upon a time not so many years ago on a sharp upward trajectory. But over the last couple of years that growth has slowed dramatically, with registrations growing 1.0% in the year to the end of the first quarter in 2018, or 3.2 million, to approximately 333.8 million domain name registrations across all top level domains, according to the latest Domain Name Industry Brief from Verisign for the first quarter of 2018. For the quarter,
Is auDA Facilitating Branchstacking Ah...
Allegations of branchstacking have surfaced ahead of the upcoming auDA Special General Meeting with supply class members rumoured to be encouraging staff to join along with what appears to be family members of the Chair Chris Leptos. The allegations also include a rumour that leading supply organisations may also be offering to subsidise membership fees, a move that is against the rules of auDA, but has possibly been agreed to through an undeclared imprimatur of auDA
ICANN Update to Short-term Options to ...
ICANN announces changes to the Public Comment on Short-term Options for the timeline of ICANN reviews. ICANN has removed the Registration Directory Service Review (RDS-WHOIS2) options and references and posted an updated Short-term Public Comment at the request of the Review Team. Any comments regarding the RDS-WHOIS2 request should be addressed to the RDS-WHOIS2 Review Team at input-to-rds-whois2-rt@icann.org (publicly archived).The Public Comment periods on
UK owners of .EU domains will lose the...
In a meeting with its UK domain registrar community on June 4th, EURID (the operator of .EU domains) outlined the European Commission's directive on how Britain's withdrawal from the EU will affect UK Registrants of .EU domain names. It has ordered EURID to delete all domain names registered to UK owners as soon as March 30th, 2019 if a withdrawal agreement has not been reached with Britain by that date. With roughly 380,000 .EU domain names registered by UK entities
German Court Rejects ICANN Bid to Prot...
In a bid to 'to protect the data collected in WHOIS', ICANN last week sought a court ruling in a German court to 'ensure the continued collection of all WHOIS data, so that such data remains available to parties demonstrating legitimate purpose to access it, consistent with the GDPR.' The 'one-sided filing' in Bonn, Germany, was against German registrar EPAG, these days part of the Tucows group. EPAG had recently informed ICANN that it would no longer collect adminis
Bumper Week of 5 Six-Figure Sales
Crosswordpuzzles.com was the biggest sale of the week, but there were 4 others that made the six-figure mark in the Domain Name Journal chart of top reported sales for the week ending 22 April. Topping the six-figure quintuplets, crosswordpuzzles.com sold for $249,980, followed by presto.com ($150,000), emx.com ($120,000) and hosts.com ($100,000) ,all sold through Uniregistry, with the remaining six-figure sale being providers.com selling for $100,000 through Buckley