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ICANN is posting for public comment the proposed amendment to the .COM Registry Agreement with Verisign. This proposal is a result of discussions between ICANN and Verisign, Inc. and will extend the .com registry agreement …

Donuts Inc., the largest New gTLD registry, today publicly announced its interest in acquiring Rightside Group, Ltd.’s entire registry of new generic top-level domains (New gTLDs) and related assets for $70 million in an all-cash …

The municipality of Samos, a Greek island in the Aegean sea, paid 3,159 Euro for a 5-minute job assignment. The price included Greek 24% VAT tax. Specifically they paid Andreas Skalkos (e-samos) to forward 3 …

Keith Kupferschmid, CEO of Copyright Alliance, is asking the .org extension registry to suspend the Pirate Bay domain name: ThePirateBay.org. Based in Reston, Virginia, Public Interest Registry (PIR) is a not-for profit organization created by …

It has been one year since the .BANK internet new domain name extension launched in May 2015, and the number of domain name registrations now stands at over 5,900. In this initial year, 45% of banks in …

Minds + Machines Group Limited (AIM:MMX) announced today that Fred Krueger and all other plaintiffs have dismissed their lawsuit against the Company and all other defendants, as initially reported in the Company’s RNS dated 26 …

.VIP broke several New gTLD domain registration records since its launch yesterday. It has been the fasted registered New Extension for the first 3 hours since the General Availability since the NEW gTLD program started …

Canon Inc. announced that the Company has gone live with a renewed global website employing a domain name that departs from the traditional location-specific “www.canon.com” to the new “global.canon” proprietary domain name. The launch marks …

Automattic, the parent company of WordPress.com, paid over 19 million dollars for the .blog registry and will offer the .blog domain extensions through its subsidiary, Knock Knock, WHOIS There (KKWT), starting later this year. The …

Automattic, the parent company of WordPress.com, announced that it secured the rights to oversee and operate the sale and registration of .blog domain names. WordPress creator Matt Mullenweg said in a blog post that Automattic is …

Nominet is making the zone files for all of the domains they manage available to members for the first time. But that is not all, as the zone file will contain only active domain names. …

The top 10 trending keywords registered in .COM and .NET domain names during the month of April 2016 were published by Verisign, the .com and .net registry.. “Trump” is out of the list after 2 …

Tribune Publishing Company (NYSE:TPUB) bought the domain name LA.com for $1.2 million in February 2016. The sale was revealed in a quarterly report (FORM 10-Q) that was filed to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission by …

CentralNic sent out a chilling email informing several of its clients that the domains they have bought, build into websites and have been renewing for years will be deleted in a year from now. CentralNic …