Many of the problems refugees and their host countries face can be mitigated and made easier to solve if internet connectivity gaps are closed, says a team of senior communications experts working with UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). The group released a document this week on its "Global Broadband Plan for [...] Continue reading →

In a joint letter sent to ICANN on Monday, a group of non-profit organizations has opposed the removal of price caps in the .org Registry Agreement. The group which includes NPR, YMCA, C-SPAN, National Geographic Society, AARP, The Conservation Fund, Oceana, and National Trust for Historic Preservation says they are disappointed and concerned that ICANN [...] Continue reading →

Hello, happy Monday, and welcome to my weekly roundup of news from the domain name investing world. You might notice that it’s Monday, not Friday, which is where you’ve usually read these updates. I’m doing a little test to see which day performs better, so expect to see this here [...] Continue reading →

Donuts, the registry with the largest stable of new gTLDs, has added its 242nd string to its bow. The company seems to have acquired .contact from, nominally at least, smaller portfolio rival Top Level Spectrum. The ICANN contract for the gTLD was transferred to one of Donuts’ subsidiaries a couple weeks ago. According to TLS [...] Continue reading →

If you ran a store, would you leave it at night with the door unlocked? Would you choose not to get an alarm system or insurance? Not exactly a brilliant way to keep your merchandise safe. Yet, that’s what millions of people do when they manage WordPress sites without proper security systems in place and [...] Continue reading →

This post was co-authored by Klaus Stoll, Professor Sam Lanfranco and Dr. William Brocas. Borg: A cybernetic life-form, part organic and part artificial, with a singular goal: the consumption of technology, rather than the pursuit of wealth or political expansion as is the case with the human species. One of the [...] Continue reading →

Eight large US-based non-profits, several of them household names, have put their names to a letter demanding that Public Interest Registry should not be allowed to increase its .org registry fees beyond 10% a year. Combined, these eight outfits have revenue of roughly $2.6 billion per year. PIR’s fees are currently under $10 per domain [...] Continue reading →