As the result of the Notices of Termination issued on November 25, 2009 to registrars OOO Russia (IANA ID 1238) and Hosting365 Inc. (IANA ID 956), ICANN is seeking expressions of interest from ICANN-accredited registrars that might wish to assume sponsorship of the gTLD names that were previously managed by these registrars.
This request for expressions [...]
The domain name Russia.com was sold for US$1.5 million by Sedo reports the Quintura blog, making it the sixth biggest reported sale to date for 2009 going by the current list of sales on Domain Name Journal’s list of top domain sales for the year.
The domain name was previously used as a website for travel [...]
Nic.at, the registry for .AT domain names, have announced they have crossed into a new frontier with the 900,000th .AT domain name registration.
The milestones sees continued growth of around ten per cent per year despite the global financial crisis. For the last ten years growth has averaged the same ten per cent per year.
The one [...]
Over 88 percent of domain names covered by new protections
Less than six months after new registrant protections were approved by the ICANN Board, over 88 percent of all generic domain names are now covered.
The protections include improved ways of storing data that require registration companies to submit to more stringent rules. These are included in [...]
16 November 2009 – the day Russian Federation officially applied for Cyrillic domain .РФ (.RF) to ICANN. This event was preceded by two years of collaboration between ICANN, Russian government, local internet-society and key market players.
The great beginning…
Russian language has quite long history in DNS. First domain names in Cyrillic appeared in 2001 – as [...]
Following the incident where a SnapNames executive had set up an account on the SnapNames system under a false name and, under this name, bid in SnapNames auctions, the company has announced they have updated the proposed rebate offer.
In the announcement below, SnapNames announced they have revised the agreement regarding the rebate to customers. In [...]
The news release below outlines two new elements on the DOMAINFest Global conference to take place in Los Angeles in January. One is a PITCHfest contest that aims to uncover new, innovative products or services designed to enhance the value of parked or developed domain names by driving increased traffic and/or revenue.
The second is a [...]
ICANN has authorized a bulk transfer of Mouzz Interactive Inc.’s gTLD domain names to Sibername.com, Inc., due to a compliance action taken by ICANN that resulted in the de-accreditation of registrar Mouzz Interactive Inc.
The gTLD registries that have registered Mouzz Interactive domain names have taken steps to effect the bulk transfers. Former registrant-customers of Mouzz [...]
While you could call it a meaningless poll, for those who want to voice their opinion on what ccTLD will be huge in years to come there is a poll currently underway that allows you to vote.
Currently for reasons not based on any scientific research analysis, .CO (Colombia) is currently leading the way with 27 [...]
As part of its consultation process for the development of the July 2010-June 2013 Strategic Plan, ICANN is seeking the views of the community on ICANN’s priorities for the coming three years. Following the successful trial of a survey at the public consultation session at the Seoul meeting, ICANN invites all members of the community [...]
