A campaign that is calling for a Nominet Extraordinary General Meeting (EGM) and plans to remove the current Chair, Remuneration Chair and Executive Directors and replace them with new directors has made Nominet feel the …
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Verisign will increase the .com price from $7.85 to $8.39
Verisign announced today in its fourth quarter and full year 2020 results that it plans to increase the price of .com in 2021. Verisign will increase the annual registry-level wholesale fee for each new and …
Read More »Nominet feels the heat and starts making promises
A campaign that is calling for a Nominet Extraordinary General Meeting (EGM) and plans to remove the current Chair, Remuneration Chair and Executive Directors and replace them with new directors has made Nominet feel the …
Read More »82.5% of .eu domain names are connected to a web server
In an effort to further understand its customers and maintain the .eu “competitive” edge, EURid has completed the 2nd part of the .eu website categorisation. (You can see the first part here.) In November 2020, …
Read More »RADIX reports $2M revenue
RADIX shared its bi-annual premium report for the second half of 2020. This report gives a full overview of the premium domain sales across the RADIX nTLD portfolio from 1st July 2020 till 31st December …
Read More »New campaign to rescue .UK and remove 5 Nominet board directors
Krystal, a web hosting company and registrar, has launched PublicBenefit.UK – a campaign to rescue Nominet, the guardian for 10.8M .UK domain names and one of the world’s top five registries. The campaign accuses Nominet’s …
Read More »Frank Schilling is selling his 23 New gTLDs
Frank Schilling is selling his 23 New gTLDs and getting out of domain names completely after selling Uniregistry and his domain name portfolio to GoDaddy last year. UNR (the name of the registry) has setup …
Read More ».NL introduces landing pages for disabled domain names
From today, SIDN, the .NL registry, is linking an informative landing page to domain names whose name servers have been delinked. In its role as operator of the .nl domain, SIDN can delink the servers …
Read More »Ethos Capital acquires Donuts Inc.
Erik Brooks and Fadi Chehadé, Co-CEOs of Ethos Capital, made the announcement today that Ethos Capital is going to acquire controlling interest of Donuts Inc. Last month Donuts completed the acquisition of Afilias. Here is …
Read More »Nearly a million new .nl domain names registered in 2020
Last year saw the registration of 995,000 new .nl domain names. That’s 20 per cent up on 2019, when 827,000 new .nls were created. Thanks to the registration surge, the total number of .nl domain …
Read More »81,000 .EU domain names were SUSPENDED
On 1 January 2021, following the notices EURid, the .eu registry, published on their website since June 2020 and the emails they sent to affected registrars and registrars, over 81 000 domain names whose registrants …
Read More »Stats about the .blog New gTLD extension
The .blog registry, Knock Knock WHOIS There, shared some stats about the quality of the New gTLD extension. Knock Knock WHOIS There, LLC is a subsidiary of Automattic, the parent company of WordPress.com and Jetpack. It …
Read More »Donuts completes the Afilias acquisition
Donuts Inc. announced that it has completed its acquisition of Afilias, Inc. The announcement came after ICANN approved the change of control of Afilias. “Now under one corporate structure, the two companies will continue to …
Read More »Last Brexit notice to .eu registrants and registrars
Last week EURid, the .eu registry, notified (for the second time and probably the last) by email all UK registrants and their registrars that as of 1 January 2021 UK registrants will no longer be …
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