Verisign is requesting that ICANN extend all dates in the current implementation plan for the Thick WHOIS Policy by one year, to coincide with the time-frame for concluding any temporary policy and corresponding community work. …

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (“ICANN”) today announced that it has received a letter from the Article 29 Working Party (WP29) [PDF, 400 KB] that provides guidance on the European Union’s General …

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) published the ICANN61 By the Numbers report, which includes technical, demographic, and attendance statistics. Why did ICANN wasted so many hours to create this 54-page report …

The top 10 trending keywords registered in .COM and .NET domain names during the month of March 2018 were published by Verisign, the .com and .net registry. There are no common keywords in the 2 …

It seems that Namejet domain name auction front running is still continuing and going strong. I received an email a couple days back about someone pretending to be the owner of a domain name that …

Mike Mann reported selling 8 domain names in March for a total of $112,290. Prices started at $350 for a typo and went up to $28,888. All8 of the sold domains were .com. The average …

I have been wondering in the past few weeks where the domain name investors have gone. It seems that a significant percentage has left the industry. This happened in the end of 2017 so it …

Namejet released its March 2018 domain name auctions report. Namejet sold 102 domains in February for a total of $508,332. The average sales price was $4,984. Namejet only reports domains that were sold for $2,000 …

.NYC will have a travel and tourism related domain name auction in May. The auction opens May 3, 1 PM ET  and closes May 10, 1 PM ET. The auction features 25 domain names: boattour.nyc …

We are less than 2 months away from the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and it seems that a few domain name registrars are already masking or blocking whois details. Blocking has been going on …

DomainNameStats.com has been officially released in Beta. DomainNameStats.com is a new domain statistics site covering all TLD’s that exist on the internet today. DomainNameStats.com and NameStat.org are operated by Name Metrics Ltd, a global domain …

Google announced that after a year and a half of experimentation and testing, they have started migrating sites that follow the best practices for mobile-first indexing. To recap, Google crawling, indexing, and ranking systems has …

The European Commission has issued a communication concerning Brexit and the .eu TLD. The communication states that, based on the United Kingdom’s intent to withdraw from the European Union, undertakings and organisations that are established …

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (“ICANN”) has requested European data protection authorities (DPAs) provide specific guidance on the organization’s Proposed Interim Compliance Model [PDF, 922 KB] as it relates to the European …