ICANN has released the schedule for ICANN67 last Friday, its first virtual Public Meeting. ICANN67 was initially planned to take place in Cancún, Mexico, but has been transitioned to a virtual meeting in response to the global outbreak of COVID-19. The dates have not changed: The ICANN67 Virtual Community Forum [...] Continue reading →

Top-level domains, both generic and country code, are facing challenges in recent years for many, with growth either plateauing or declining. The one big exception of course is .com that continues to power along. But for most others growth has stalled or declined, while budgetary pressures have increased due to [...] Continue reading →

The .me registry is to release around 2,800 premium, or what they’re describing as their coolest, domain names, on 4 March at 16.00 UTC. The domains will be made directly available for registration to every business and individual around the globe on a first come, first served basis. [...] Continue reading →

ICANN announced Thursday the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak had forced it to postpone its Middle East DNS Forum, scheduled for 24-25 March 2020, in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. The decision, ICANN explained, was made in partnership with the hosts. It’s the second ICANN event COVID-19 had forced a [...] Continue reading →

Sales of publicly traded liquid domain names rose 30% to $7,281,979 in the quarter ending December 2019, while those sales using Escrow.com declined 13.3% to $12,195,427, according to the latest Liquid Domains Overview (LXDO) from Giuseppe Graziano’s GGRG. Liquid domain names [...] Continue reading →

The IP address market is getting more chaotic due to IPv4 address exhaustion. IP address suppliers search for potential clients, and companies are looking for available addresses and best prices in the market. To expedite sales and ensure better control over IP address assets more businesses are launching marketplaces. Heficed – the IP address infrastructure [...] Continue reading →

Dismay at the time it’s taking for ICANN to launch a new round of new gTLD applications is an underlying theme for Jovenet Consulting’s Jean Guillon in today’s Domain Pulse Q&A, as well as it’s the insiders who are framing the new applicant guidebook and the larger companies are [...] Continue reading →