.ORG Soars Past 8.5 Million Registrations
An increase of over 500,000 domain name registrations in the previous six months saw the number of .ORG domains registered soar past 8.5 million according to the latest bi-annual report from the .ORG registry, the Public Interest Registry.
The first six months of 2010 saw registrations increase 7.6 per cent, more ...
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Internet Commerce Association Activities Update
Writing a guest column in Domain Name Wire, Philip S. Corwin, Counsel for the Internet Commerce Association, provides an update on ICA happenings to date in 2010.
The article looks at:
ICANN meeting participation: the ICA participated in the Kenya meeting remotely due to security concerns raising the issue of “the illicit ...
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Afilias To Expand DNSSEC Deployment To .INFO and 12 Others
Afilias has announced it will deploy Domain Name System Security Extensions (DNSSEC) across its registry platforms, signing 13 more top level domains (TLDs) it operates including .INFO and increasing DNSSEC deployment among domain registries by 50 percent.
“Afilias has been a leader in DNSSEC deployment, including working closely with .ORG to ...
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.IS Passes 30,000 Registrations Milestone
Last week it was the announcement that .NL had passed the four million registration mark, but not every ccTLD is so large and smaller milestones are just as momentous. So the announcement that .IS, the Icelandic ccTLD, had passed the 30,000 registrations marks is probably equally momentous to them.
The 30,000th ...
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65% of .eu registrants chose a registrar based in their own country
[news release] EURid has taken a closer look at the distribution of .eu registrations among its registrars and has found that 65 % of domain name registrants chose a registrar from their own country, 18 % chose a registrar from a different country in the European Union, and 17% chose ...
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.AU/.NZ and .INFO Best Practice Awards Open
The registries for .AU (Australia) and .NZ (New Zealand), auDA and InternetNZ, have announced their Best Practice Awards for 2010 while .INFO registry Afilias has opened its fourth annual .INFO Awards programme.
The 2010 Australia and New Zealand Internet Best Practice Awards recognise organisations, businesses, groups and individuals that have made ...
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ICANN asks Demand Media for answers after HostExploit report
ICANN is asking Demand Media’s eNom division for answers following complaints from Internet security groups, says an IDG report.
The report says that eNom has come under fire following a “report from HostExploit, a volunteer-run anti-malware research group. According to HostExploit, eNom is host to an unusually large number of malicious ...
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Domain Name Sales on Summer Hiatus
Domain name sales appear to be taking a summer hiatus with only one domain name sale topping the $100,000 mark in the two weeks to 8 August in Domain Name Journal’s list of top reported sales.
The top seller in the period was huddle.com, sold for $131,400 through NameJet. A seven-way ...
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Call for Statements of Interests for Candidates for Post of ICANN Board Seat Extended to September 6, 2010
The Call for Statements of Interest (SOIs) for Candidates for the Post of ICANN Board Seat has been extended to September 6.
This Call for SOIs is part of the new process through which the user community within ICANN will appoint one voting member of the ICANN Board. ...
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4m .NL Domains Means One Domain Registered for Every 4 Dutch People
As previously reported, the four millionth .NL domain name was registered this week. On reaching the four million mark, SIDN also announced they are the ccTLD with the highest number of registered domain names per person in the respective country with almost one domain name registered for every four of ...
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