The .fan new gTLD hit general availability on 12 December in a marketplace where fans of sport and other forms of entertainment are well catered for. In the first 24 hours there were, according to nTLDstats, 996 registrations of .fan domain names, taking the total to 1,387. Today there are around 2,050 .fan domain names…
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German Court Rules Domain Registrars Liable For Some Pirate Site Infringements
A German court has ruled that domain name registrars can be held liable if a website owner is unresponsive to takedown requests, according to a TorrentFreak report, even when the infringing activity is limited to a single page. The ruling came from the Higher Regional Court of Saarbrücken who ruled that even a single link…
RightOfTheDot and NameJet Reveal Ultra-Premium Domain Names Up for Grabs at NamesCon Global 2019
RightOfTheDot and NameJet on Wednesday announced the release of the initial list of ultra-premium domain names up for pre-bidding before the live, in-person and online domain name auction at NamesCon Global 2019, the largest annual domain-industry conference. The live domain auction takes place on January 28, 2019, from 4 pm – 7 pm PST at…
ICANN Draft FY20 Operating Plan and Budget and Five-Year Operating Plan Update
Brief Overview: Purpose: Focusing on ICANN‘s commitment to the multistakeholder model, ICANN‘s Draft FY20 Operating Plan and Budget and the current year update to the Five-Year Operating Plan are provided for community discussion and public comment. ICANN seeks structured feedback on the plans described in these documents. The documents incorporate improvements on previous years based…
.RS Adds 13 Languages | DomainPulse.com – The Beat on the Domain Name Industry
It’s now possible to register .rs domain names in an additional 13 languages in addition to Serbian and English characters. The update on 10 December saw characters in the Albanian, Bosnian, Croatian, Czech, German, Hungarian, Montenegrin, Romanian, Romany, Slovak, Slovene and Vlach languages become available to .rs registrants. The Serbian National Internet Domain Registry (RNIDS)…