Neustar has bought Bombora Technologies Pty Ltd (Bombora), based in Australia, for A$118.5 million, or approximately US$86.9 million. Bombora and its subsidiaries, which include ARI Registry Services and AusRegistry, provide registry services for a number of top-level domains (TLDs) including .au, .melbourne, .sydney, and over 100 new TLDs, including several in the Fortune 500. This [...] Continue reading →

[news release] Rightside, a leading provider of domain name services that advance the way businesses and individuals define and present themselves online, today announced record-setting demand for its .NEWS Web addresses. .NEWS Web addresses will help all businesses and organizations — large and small; new and old; local, regional, national and global — build [...] Continue reading →

[news release] Minds + Machines, the publicly quoted owner and operator of Internet top-level domains, is delighted to announce that WeddingWire, the wedding industry’s leading global online marketplace, has joined Minds + Machines as the latest ‘.wedding’ pioneer. As the wedding industry’s most influential platform with over 5 million unique visits per month, WeddingWire has [...] Continue reading →

ICANN has announced its FY15 Q4 Stakeholder Call, which will take place on 20 August 2015 at 14:00 UTC. The call will cover how ICANN has progressed against its strategic and operating plans for the Quarter ending 30 June 2015 and will review some of the information from the latest KPI Beta Dashboard, anticipated to [...] Continue reading →

The CCWG-Accountability will be publishing its 2nd draft for 40-day public comment on 3 August 2015. Community feedback is requested on this 2nd draft proposal of proposed enhancements to ICANN‘s accountability framework that the CCWG-Accountability has identified as essential to happen or be committed to before the IANA Stewardship Transition takes place (Work Stream 1). [...] Continue reading →

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Neustar, the tech services giant that operates the .biz, .us and .co registries and provides backend services to many others has acquired Australia's Bombora Technologies for nearly $87 Million in a deal that expands the number of TLDs Neustar services to over 300. [...] Continue reading →