There’s plenty of dysfunction at auDA, the .au policy and regulatory body, but one thing they’ve been pushing ahead with is second level .au registrations. At the auDA board meeting on 20 May, 3 years and one month after the Board originally approved second level registrations, the Board agreed to push ahead with their implementation,…
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nic.at’s Legal Team Gives There Views One Year On For EU’s GDPR
The European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) came into being on 25 May 2018. For gTLDs ICANN still hasn’t developed a permanent policy on how to deal with it. For ccTLDs it was somewhat simpler. The lawyers at Austria’s ccTLD manager, nic.at, have given their verdict in a Q&A published on the registry’s website…
auDA Quietly Shelves Registry Ambitions After Blowing $200K; Now Seeking To Avoid Government Oversight
Last week a couple of domain names relating to auDA’s grand ambition to become the registry for Australia’s ccTLD, in addition to its ongoing role of policy and regulatory body, slipped off the radar when the domain names related to its proposed rebrand quietly appeared on the expiring domains drop list, and then were locked…
Food for thought on the “new TLD” business models by Afnic’s Loïc Damilaville
There is always some degree of confusion in discussions about the “new TLDs”. Some points of view try to be optimistic, others on the contrary only highlight the bad news, and most refer indistinctly to the “new TLDs” as if they did not break down into different segments, each of which obeys dynamics and constraints…
.EU Registrations Continue To Drop Due To Brexit Fears
The number of .eu and .ею domain name registrations have continued to fall as the likelihood of Brexit draws nearer as most UK registrants will lose their eligibility. In the year to the end of March the number of .eu and .ею domain names registered to UK registrants declined 134,661 while total registrations dropped 162,390.…