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CentralNic Group Plc made an announcement today after some recent industry speculation. The Company confirmed that discussions are taking place regarding the potential combination of CentralNic and KeyDrive S.A. and its subsidiaries including domain reseller …

Edward Snowden and Max Schrems were announced today as CloudFest keynote address speakers. Schrems and Snowden were two of the people that convinced the European Parliament that the rules and regulations surrounding data privacy needed to be …

Domaining Europe will transition into NamesCon Europe beginning with the upcoming June 7-9th event in Valencia, Spain. Dietmar Stefitz, who founded Domaining Europe in 2008, will directly manage the 2018 event with the assistance of …

“Domain Name Rights Coalition“, a new organization protecting the rights of domain name registrants was founded. The organization says it is “dedicated to protecting the rights of Internet Domain Name Registrants and fight for fair …

.CLUB Domains announced at NamesCon 2018 the launch of Names.club, a new premium domain marketplace featuring brandable domains with new extensions such as .CLUB, .Shop, .Miami and more. The new web and mobile Names.club replaces …

NamesCon 2018 is starting today in Las Vegas. The domain name conference runs from January 28 until January 31 at the Tropicana hotel in Las Vegas. I arrived in Las Vegas late last night and …

These are the sessions and events that I will most probably attend this year. It could be more or less as everything changes by the minute… There are a few overlapping sessions and events especially …

Here is a detailed look at the NamesCon 2018 Tool Talks that start today at 12pm and run until 5pm. The detailed Tool Talks agenda was published just a few days ago and not many …

Today Verisign introduced NameStudio, a new domain name brainstorming service. Through NameStudio, users type in keywords for domain names related to their idea or business. The service dynamically generates relevant domain name options that can …

Undeveloped announced today that they are adopting blockchain technology and will soon release Undeveloped tokens. “We’re convinced that the future of the domain industry lies in the blockchain and Undeveloped is taking a major step …

DigitalTown, Inc. and Congo, Ltd., have entered into an agreement for DigitalTown to acquire technology, expertise, and other assets of Congo. Congo’s flagship product is JustLegal.com, an online service for legal service provider discovery. “The …

Less than 1,500 .Boston domain names were registered on general availability day 1, October 10 2017. According to Namestat there are now 1,619 registered .Boston domain names. The total includes 1,429 registrations from general availability …

Plan Bee LLC, the company operating the .build top-level domain, has been suspended in California. The Beverly Hills based company has been suspended by the California Secretary of State AND the Franchise Tax Board. The …

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 …