What happens when a Brand changes its company name, which has a .brand new gTLD, such as through a takeover, merger or just a name change? There’s currently no quick process in place to allow them to obtain a new gTLD to reflect the change. This is one of the many issues raised by Loïc…
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Branding And Accessibility Are Areas For CIRA And Industry To Address, While Slowing Market Is A Concern: CIRA
Branding is one of the top-level domain industry’s greatest strengths, and more should be made of it is one of the key observations in this latest Q&A with David Fowler, vice-president, marketing and communications, Canadian Internet Registration Authority. Looking back at 2019, CIRA thought it was a year not without its challenges, particularly the slowing…
200 Million New IPv4 Addresses to Enter Market: What to Expect? : Heficed
At the end of 2019, the US government passed a new bill authorising the Department of Defence to sell around 200 million Internet Protocol 4th version addresses. Several blocks of IPv4 addresses are planned to be sold out in ten years. Vincentas Grinius, CEO of Heficed, explains how these changes might affect the IP address…
.XYZ Gains Rights To 5 More New gTLDs, Making A Total Of 17
The XYZ Registry announced this week they’ve acquired 5 more new gTLDs taking their tally of new gTLDs to 17. These 5 new gTLDs will become available to the public in 2020. The first to be announced is .quest, the others haven’t been announced, and .xyz is billing this as the expert new generic top-level…
Investing in Privacy Shows Benefits Averaging 2.7 Times Investment: Cisco
Organisations, on average, receive benefits 2.7 times their investment, and more than 40% are seeing benefits that are at least twice that of their privacy spend according to Cisco’s 2020 Data Privacy Benchmark Study. Privacy has become a big issue globally in recent years, particularly following the introduction of the European Union’s General Data Protection…