A Singaporean telecommunications company has become the latest gTLD registry to voluntarily drop its dot-brand. StarHub, which had 2018 revenue equivalent to $1.73 billion, told ICANN it no longer wished to operate .starhub in February and ICANN opened its request up for a month of public comment last week (a formality). It’s the 48th of [...] Continue reading →

Calling a mistake a scam belittles actual scams. Some people have extreme reactions when something goes wrong at a domain name company: they say they were scammed. Such was the case last week with the person who thought he’d won a GoDaddy auction, only to find out a network problem caused him to think [...] Continue reading →

The number of domain names registered by brands in their new gTLDs jumped over 50% in 2018 the latest .brands Industry Report from Neustar reports. According to the report there were 15,595 .brand domain names registered at the end of 2018 with 10,509 being in use, which is in itself [...] Continue reading →

Starting with the Azerbaijan Grand Prix last weekend, the Rich Energy Haas F1 Team deployed Nominet’s cybersecurity technology NTXsecure, which enables proactive cybersecurity with both DNS analytics and a fully managed DNS resolver. The technology, Nominet explains, is capable of automatically categorising and applying policy to potentially billions of queries [...] Continue reading →

Not much time today, Lot’s of good one word .biz domains without any bids. I mean if you’re into that sort of alternate TLD. If  these SLD’s can’t make it on a .biz, a short, old, descriptive TLD, then the new GTLD’s are doomed. Main List       NameJet          Flippa/Sedo    [...] Continue reading →

EURid has launched the 2019 edition of their Web Awards. The awards have been running since 2014 and are 100% free to enter. Not only do the winners get to have a nice evening in Brussels, but they also get tangible assistance to raise the profile of their [...] Continue reading →

For the last several months, the ICANN organization has collaborated with the gTLD Registries Stakeholder Group (RySG) to improve the efficiency and predictability of the process for reviewing registry operator requests under the Registry Services Evaluation Policy (RSEP). Both groups understood that the decade-old process had not been sufficiently updated to meet the needs of [...] Continue reading →