Domain Name News

The Contracted Party House (CPH) Tech-Ops committee made a proposal to ICANN so that we can preserve the ability to transfer domain names between registrars. This is critical to maintaining a positive experience for registrants. …

Minds + Machines Group Limited (AIM: MMX), announced today that it has entered into a conditional agreement to acquire the entire membership interests of ICM Registry LLC (“ICM”), a US company, for a cash payment …

.App domain names officially launched yesterday as the new extension, run by Google, entered the EAP phase. EAP is the early access period when anyone can register available .app domains for an extra fee. The …

Merge! has announced the preliminary conference agenda for the upcoming show in Orlando. Not many details were shared but you can get a sense on how the agenda will be like and this way you …

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 …

VeriSign, Inc. (NASDAQ: VRSN), reported financial results for the first quarter of 2018. First Quarter GAAP Financial Results VeriSign, Inc. and subsidiaries (“Verisign”) reported revenue of $299 million for the first quarter of 2018, up …

Göran Marby, ICANN President and CEO, Akram Atallah, John Jeffrey, Elena Plexida, Theresa Swinehart and Board member Maarten Botterman, met yesterday in Brussels, with the Article 29 Working Party (WP29) Technology Subgroup and representatives of …

Some domain name investors are being idiots. Plain and simple idiots. Well, most are probably idiots, including myself, but regarding this issue below maybe not so many. I hope… So I sent out an email …

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 …

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 …

These are some of the words or phrases that you don’t want to hear from a potential buyer of your domain name. This goes beyond the usual cheapskate pretending to be a student, people making …

Efty just released in a tweet a sneak preview of the new Efty that is coming soon. You can see a few of the new features and the control panel is a short video: Sneak …

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 …