.eu and it’s stablemates ею and .ευ continued to shed domain name registrations as Brexit approached, with total registrations across all 3 TLDs decreasing from 3,617,536 (3,581,478 for .eu) at the end of the third quarter of 2019 to 3,606,311 (3,579,689 for .eu) at the end of the fourth quarter, [...] Continue reading →

ICANN is to hold a conference call this week with ICANN community leaders and representatives to discuss how to deal with issues arising from the outbreak of COVID-19 (Coronavirus) and the upcoming ICANN67 meeting scheduled for Cancún, Mexico, next month. The tone of the post indicates that there’s a chance [...] Continue reading →

Brief Overview Purpose: This Public Comment proceeding seeks input on the draft Name Collision Analysis Project (NCAP) Study 1 report produced by the Office of the CTO. Current Status: The report presents the findings for Study [...] Continue reading →

GoDaddy announced this week it was acquiring Uniregistry’s leading domain registrar and marketplace businesses. The deal is expected to close sometime in the second quarter of 2020. The Uniregistry domain registry is not part of the transaction. Uniregistry started in 2014 by catering to domain name investors [...] Continue reading →

The biggest and most important event on the domain name calendar for the German-speaking countries is happening next week in the north Tyrolean city of Innsbruck where a few hundred people are expected to attend the 2-day event, this year hosted by nic.at. Domain Pulse, which rotates [...] Continue reading →

The Internet Commerce Association has developed a tool to make it easy for those opposed to any increase in the .com registry fee to voice their disapproval. The Internet Commerce Association has developed a tool to make it easy for those opposed to any increase in [...] Continue reading →

Since its launch in December 2019, EURid’s Project APEWS – Advanced Prevention and Early Warning System – has correctly detected over 60,000 malicious .eu domain name registrations. While this is only 1.67% of the more than 3.6 million .eu domains registered, it’s still a significant amount and has undoubtedly had [...] Continue reading →