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There was a 1.2 million drop in the number of domain names registered around the world in the third quarter of 2017, a decline of 0.4% over the second quarter, which was largely due to a drop of 3.2 million registrations in new gTLDs, the vast majority in 2 new gTLDs – .xyz and .top.…

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  ICANN announced today [[15 Dec] that Kim Davies, Director of Technical Services, Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA), has been appointed to the position of Vice President, IANA Services and President, PTI. Public Technical Identifiers (PTI) is responsible for the operational aspects of coordinating the Internet’s unique identifiers and maintaining the trust of the community…

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Canada’s ccTLD registry, the Canadian Internet Registration Authority (CIRA), has now added .sx (Sint Maarten) to its Fury Registry Platform. CIRA has been on a bit of a “acquisition” role recently with this week’s adding to a number of similar recent announcements. Wednesday’s announcement says SX Registry SA, who operates the .SX country code top…

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ICANN is pleased to announce the opening of the nomination period for ICANN‘s Multistakeholder Ethos Award. Launched in 2014 at ICANN50 in London, the Multistakeholder Ethos Award recognizes ICANN participants who have deeply invested in consensus-based solutions, acknowledging the importance of ICANN‘s multistakeholder model of Internet governance, and contributed in a substantive way to the…

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RightOfTheDot and NameJet have partnered to launch the industry’s most premier domain name auction that is currently taking place online on the NameJet website in conjunction with the live domain name auction that will be held at NamesCon 2018 on January 30rd from 4 PM – 7 PM PST. RightOfTheDot, LLC is the leading Internet…

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