In a move that surprised absolutely nobody ICANN has formally extended their “travel ban” until the end of June 2021. Realistically I suspect that the suspension of travel and face to face events is going to be extended beyond June. In a blog post ICANN CEO Göran Marby outlined briefly [...] Continue reading →

Keeping track of the merger and acquisitions over the last while is proving to be headache inducing. A lot of the players have switched around and the number of transactions does not show any sign of slowing down. The latest announcement is that Ethos Capital, the rather secretive investment company, is [...] Continue reading →

From January 1st 2021 the UK is no longer part of the European Union and consequently .eu domain names can no longer be registered or held by UK individuals or businesses. EURid, the .eu domain name registry, operate the registry under contract to the European Commission, so they are bound [...] Continue reading →

In a move that surprised absolutely nobody ICANN has yet again announced that an upcoming event will be online only. ICANN’s second meeting of the year is scheduled to take place in June. Originally this was meant to be held in The Hague, but due to the [...] Continue reading →

Last year the Middle East DNS Forum was meant to be taking place in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Due to the pandemic the event was cancelled completely last year. For 2021 the Forum is being held online from April 5th to April 7th. It’s still officially being [...] Continue reading →

The .cl domain name registry for Chile recently hit a milestone. There are now over 700 thousand .cl domain names registered. (At time of writing 700338). According to a release from the registry, the milestone was reached on 11th March 2021. The .cl domain name has been [...] Continue reading →

Back when events were being held in person CloudFest, which used to be known as World Hosting Days, was the largest event for hosting companies in the world. Other events like HostingCon had shrunk over the years until eventually they ceased to exist. In the domain name conference space NamesCon [...] Continue reading →