Brief Overview Purpose: This Public Comment proceeding seeks to obtain input on the Phase 1 Initial Report of the Review of All Rights Protection Mechanisms (RPMs) in All gTLDs Policy Development Process (PDP). The PDP Phase 1 focuses on reviewing all the [...] Continue reading →

ISOC-IL announced via a news release last week that registrants of domain names for Israel’s ccTLD are now able to register and renew .il domain names for up to 5 years. Previously the options were for one or 2 years. The change occurred on 1 [...] Continue reading →

ICANN Friday announced that The Hague, Netherlands has been selected as the location for the ICANN74 Policy Forum, to be held from 13-16 June 2022 at the World Forum The Hague. It will be the second of ICANN‘s three Public Meetings each calendar [...] Continue reading →

ICANN Thursday announced the launch of the Open Data Platform. This effort is part of ICANN‘s Open Data Program (ODP) operationalized by the Office of the Chief Operations Officer. The goal of the Open Data Program is to provide the ICANN community with access to ICANN publicly available [...] Continue reading →

Verisign’s latest Domain Name Industry Brief shows that 2019 closed with 362.3 million domain name registrations across all top-level domains (TLDs), an increase of 2.4 million domain name registrations, or 0.7 percent, compared to the third quarter of 2019. This was an increase of 13.5 million, or 3.9 percent, year [...] Continue reading →

Following the announcement in January that auDA would donate $1 for every .au domain name created in February to help the recovery of Australian communities affected by the recent bushfires, they have announced they will be donating A$41,712 (US$25,665) to the Foundation for Regional and Rural Renewal’s (FRRR) Disaster Resilience [...] Continue reading →

Microsoft and partners across 35 countries announced this week that through coordinated legal and technical steps they have disrupted one of the world’s most prolific botnets, called Necurs, which has infected more than nine million computers globally and in 25 months had used six million unique domains in various ccTLDs [...] Continue reading →