The .EU registry announced how they are going to treat whois details and what will be publicly published after GDPR goes into full effect today. Their plan is more sensible than many other registries even …
Read More »Iceland’s .IS will continue to publish email addresses on whois
To comply with the European GDPR Directive, ISNIC will, before May 25th, stop publishing names, addresses and telephone numbers of personal contacts by default from the ISNIC WHOIS database. Customers (individuals) who wish to continue …
Read More ».UK domains: Registrant data will be redacted from WHOIS from 22 May 2018, unless explicit consent has been given
In preparation for the enforcement date of 25 May 2018, Nominet conducted a review into how EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) will affect its operations. A number of proposed changes were published for comment …
Read More ».EU grows by 52,085 domains in 2017 – Back in growth since 2014
EURid released its Annual Report, which contains an overview of statistics, achievements, and financials from 2017. Compared to 2016, total, net registrations grew by 52,085 (from 3762970 to 3815055), the average renewal rate rose by …
Read More »United Kingdom will be kicked out of .EU domains in 1 year
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 …
Read More »China added many 2nd level domains to the .cn extension
China has added many 2nd level domains to the .cn ccTLD extension. Allegravita wrote a blog post explaining the latest changes to Chinese domain names. “The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) of China …
Read More ».Com and .info maintained consistent positive growth in 2017 (1 in 3 gTLDs contracted over 2017)
The DomainWire Global TLD Stat Report Q4/2017 has been published. The report covers the global status and registration trends in all top-level domains (legacy gTLDs, new gTLDs and ccTLDs), with additional focus on the European …
Read More »Afilias selected to provide registry services for .PR ccTLD
Gauss Research Laboratories, the .PR ccTLD manager, announced that it has selected Afilias, a leading domain registry operator, to provide technical services to support Puerto Rico’s country code top level domain (ccTLD) on the Internet, …
Read More »Afilias appointed to provide registry services for the .au domains
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 …
Read More »CentralNic completed the acquisition of .sk (country code top-level domain for Slovakia)
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 …
Read More ».US Town Hall – Key points and how Neustar totally ignored my question
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 …
Read More »Join the .US town hall meeting and help shape the future of the .US extension
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 …
Read More »Owner information will not show up on .io, .ac and .sh domain name whois
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 …
Read More »Tucows to discontinue .au domain name registrations for all Chinese resellers
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 …
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