Country Code TLDs

Afilias Australia Pty Ltd, a wholly owned subsidiary of Afilias plc, has been appointed to provide registry services for the .au domain from 1 July 2018 as part of auDA’s Registry Transformation Project. Afilias was one …

CentralNic announced today that the acquisition of SK-NIC, the manager of the exclusive country code top-level domain for Slovakia, .sk, has now been completed. The Company’s agreement to acquire SK-NIC, the manager of the exclusive …

Neustar held the .US domain names town hall last week. They mostly talked about how they do all these “great” marketing efforts they do and people on forums and blogs complained about that. But a …

Neustar, the .US registry, is hosting a live town hall forum on Wednesday to discuss the United States’ country code Top-Level Domain, .US. Anyone can join the .US town hall meeting and help shape the …

Owner information has stopped appearing on .io, .ac and .sh domain name whois and people have started complaining about this change. It all started in April 2017 when Afilias won the contract to run the …

Tucows’s reseller platform OpenSRS will no longer be able to provide .au domain name registrations to any reseller that is based in China. This follows a formal direction Tucows was given by auDA, the registry …

CentralNIC has agreed to acquire SK-NIC, A.S., manager of Slovakia’s Top-Level Domain (ccTLD), .sk but Slovaks are not too happy with this. The Board of CentralNic announced that it has agreed to acquire the business …

Verisign pays $5 million annually to the Government of Tuvalu to be the sole registry operator of .TV. Verisign has the rights to sell .TV domain names up to December 31, 2021 that its contract …

.EU published its Q4 2016 Progress Report that measures some interesting findings about the developments of the extension and the registrar community. During Q4 2016, the number of .eu registrations decreased by 32 655 domain …

The usTLD Stakeholder Council and Neustar, Inc., the registry operator for the usTLD, is seeking public comment on the Council’s recommendation to Neustar to release one and two character domain names in connection with the …

Want to know the origins and development of .eu domains? Then this 209-page eBook is for you. This book tells the story of how .eu was born and developed. “This book captures our story and …

More than 1,000 domains worth more than $1M were successfully sold during three .AT short domain name auctions. The third and final .AT short domain auction closed on Monday with nearly 4,000 placed bids and more …

The 1st and 2nd of the 3 .at short domain name auctions have ended with nearly 800 domains selling. The 1st .AT short domain auction closed last week with 6,000 bids originating from countries like …

Nominet today published its update on .UK domains suspended for criminal activity over the 12 months to October 2016. Nominet suspends domains following notification from the police or other law enforcement agencies that the domain is …