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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Nomination Period Opens For ICANN Multistakeholder Ethos Award | Award Targeted for ICANN62 | Nominations Close 19 March 2018
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…
RightOfTheDot’s 2018 Live and Online Domain Name Auction at NamesCon
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…
French Railways Say OUI.SNCF | DomainPulse.com – The Beat on the Domain Name Industry
The French railway operator SNCF launched their new home online this week with their home page now oui.sncf. SNCF is one of the most prominent brands to make the switch to a new gTLD, particularly in Europe. The previous home of SNCF online, voyages-sncf.com, now redirects to the new domain name. The launch is part…
Criminals Increasingly Using “Combosquatting” To Deceive Internet Users
Criminals online are increasingly using “combosquatting” to deceive internet users. The practice takes advantage of internet users being increasingly encouraged to check the domain name in an internet address before clicking on links. Combosquatters take advantage of this, using domain names with a familiar trademarks, but including additional words resulting in being taken to a…