For the first time in the IGF history, Germany will be hosting the Annual Meeting of the United Nations’ Internet Governance Forum this year. Under the overarching theme ‘One World. One Net. One Vision.’ several thousand delegates of governments and international organisations will come together from all parts of the world with international representatives from…
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NetActuate Announces Program to Support Emerging ccTLDs
Without vouching for or knowing who NetActuate is, they’ve released a news release this week announcing that in order to help ccTLDs (country code top-level domain providers) meet and overcome challenges with security, resiliency, and network performance, they have established a new grant program for emerging ccTLDs. The program will provide anycast and infrastructure services…
Last Day To Apply For .CAT Discount Renewal Code As 1 and 2 Character Priority Registration Underway
To celebrate Catalonia’s National Day, puntCAT is offering discount codes to renew .cat domains, but the last day to apply for a discount code is today, 18 November, with codes valid until 31 January. To apply for a discount code, go to decomptes.fundacio.cat and answer the question, then share the promotion on social networks or…
Europeans, Get Your .EU Domains All In Greek!
Domain names entirely in Greek script are now available from the .eu registry, EURid, with the launch this week of .ευ. .ευ is the third top-level domain launched by EURid with the original .eu and then the Cyrillic version of .eu, .ею, in June 2016. Now there’s a Greek version too. And following changes to…
PIR Eyeing Growth Opportunities Following Ethos Capital Takeover
Public Interest Registry and the Internet Society announced Wednesday that they had agreed for PIR, the .org registry, to be taken over by Ethos Capital, an investment firm, based in the United States. .ORG was established in 2002 when the Internet Society won a competitive bidding process for the .ORG registry and established PIR to…