Iceland’s ccTLD has become what I believe is the first registry to state that it will continue to publish email addresses in public Whois records after the General Data Protection Regulation comes into effect. The move seems to put the registry, ISNIC, in direct conflict with the opinions of European data protection authorities. The company [...] Continue reading →

There’s a real security issue with ditching public Whois. Do the benefits outweigh the costs? I’ve written a lot about GDPR and how the domain registrar/registry ecosystem is responding to it. Privacy advocates are using this as an opportunity to push for privacy across the board, and I think this is a bad idea. [...] Continue reading →

Australian ccTLD registry auDA has managed get a small delay, smaller than it wanted, to the deadline for a special member meeting at which the fate of its chair, CEO and two directors will be decided. After more than 5% of its membership signed a petition calling for the vote, it had until June 7 [...] Continue reading →

Verisign reported first-quarter financial results that reflected a healthier .com namespace following the spike caused by Chinese speculation in 2016. The company Friday reported that .com was up to 133.9 million domains at the end of March, an increase of 5.5 million over the year. The strong showing was tempered slightly by a further decline [...] Continue reading →

I’ve always enjoyed my interviews and conversations with Rob Monster of Epik.com. I first interviewed Rob back in July of 2010 where he shared his vision of the internet and what he was doing to take things in that direction. You may recall the success of the product portal sites he offered to keyword domain [...] Continue reading →

If you’ve noticed something missing lately around DSAD you’re right.  The AD part of DSAD has taken some time off.  Aaron has gone on hiatus due to his busy schedule.  His real job has become much busier and lucrative than anything here at DSAD.  Other than this list, there just isn’t much financial reason [...] Continue reading →

I just hit "site:.sncf" to try to find out which are the two new domain names ending in ".sncf" which were just created and I found nothing new but www.wifi.sncf. The picture below is what appears, indexed in Google: I clicked on it and noticed (again) that it is a redirection. [...] Continue reading →