Since ICANN64, the ICANN community has been engaged in conversations and contributing to the work on evolving ICANN's multistakeholder model. Most recently, more than 60 community members attended two webinars (14 May 2019, 15 May 2019), offering input on the issues that are hampering the effective and efficient functioning of ICANN's multistakeholder model. The Evolving [...] Continue reading →

Google is making a major change on June 1st, one that they started to talk about back in 2016 and are finally bringing live next month. The idea makes a lot of sense but it could also leave some website owners in a tricky situation if they haven’t already taken [...] Continue reading →

MAY 26, 2019 / Andean Presidential Council during a gathering in Lima of the Andean Community regional bloc issued a joint statement opposing delegation of the top-level domain '.amazon' to the Amazon Inc. The presidents of Peru, Colombia, Ecuador and Bolivia have criticized the recent ICANN decision to grant global retailer Amazon the [...] Continue reading →

Sedo released their weekly sales and Cooking.com led the way at $402,500. HappyLook.com sold for $40,000. OnlineCasino.me sold for $20,000 one of the largest .me sales lately. 36 .com sales 24 cctld sales 6 other tld sales Domain name   Price Currency         .COMs       cooking.com   402,500 USD happylook.com [...] Continue reading →

Microsoft has joined the Mutually Agreed Norms for Routing Security (MANRS) initiative, supported by the Internet Society (ISOC) with the primary objective is to reduce the most common threats to the Internet's routing system. Microsft is the latest of a number of industry giants around the world — including Oracle, GÉANT, and Comcast — to [...] Continue reading →

On its recently launched blog, Uniregistry announced a new initiative called “Domain Liquidity.” I like the concept of this, and I think it has a great deal of potential for domain investors who hold valuable domain name assets that they would like to liquidate in an easy and secure manner. Here’s what the company announced [...] Continue reading →

Outside of China, very few governments would expect a saving in spectrum costs would mostly go to investment. Corporations have other priorities, including advertising and executive salaries. Stockholders come above everything at most companies. Rarely would even 1/3rd of the saving go to capital spending. The U.S. under Trump had a massive tax [...] Continue reading →