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At ICANN 49 in Singapore today Akram Atallah, president of ICANN‘s Global Domains Division (GDD) and Lucky Masilela, CEO of ZA Central Registry (ZACR) participated in a symbolic signing ceremony that allows the new gTLD …

Donuts entered EAP general availability for the following 5 New gTLDs today: .Camp, .Education, .Glass, .Institute and .Repair. The most promising New gTLDs are probably .Education and then .Camp and .Repair. I expect that most …

TONI&GUY Hair Salon and the TONI&GUY Hairdressing Academy got a new domain name this July that is now an active website: toniguy.edu. They also updated their website at toniguy.com. Not anyone can register a .edu …

BizJournals.com reported today that GoDaddy will be closing it’s Denver-area office that currently has 69 employees. GoDaddy is offering relocation for its 69 workers there. “While the Scottsdale-based domain name registrar and small-business Web services …

I posted an article today about the formation of a new organization called the Secure Domain Foundation (SDF). A few minutes later I got a comment informing me that the domains SecureDomainFoundation.com and SecureDomainFoundation.org were …

Donuts launched a new “Featured Sites” webpage where it displays developed domain names with active websites on them. The webpage already features 12 Donuts New gTLD domain names that have been build in the past …

BRS Media, a .radio new gTLD applicant, submitted formal comments to ICANN regarding the community priority evaluation, from another .radio applicant EBU, for the .RADIO New gTLD. “It is our belief that in an attempt …

Leading experts and companies in the cybersecurity, Internet and Domain Name infrastructure industry announced on March 23, 2014 the formation of the Secure Domain Foundation (SDF), a new, non-profit, community-driven organization devoted to the identification and …

Beilong Zedata (Beijing) Data Technology Co., Ltd has been approved by ICANN to provide data escrow services to new gTLD Registry Operators. All new gTLD Registry Operators are required to regularly deposit a backup copy …

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) announced at ICANN 49 in Singapore that the number of new generic top-level domains (gTLDs) that have been delegated now tops 175. Recently delegated gTLDs include …