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The University of Latvia, administrator of the Latvian country code extension .lv, has announced that disputes over .lv domains can now be settled before the arbitration tribunal of the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO). The procedure ...

The Universidad del Valle de Guatemala, registry of the country extension .gt of the Republic of Guatemala, has integrated the ‘Unified Domain Search Engine’ of the Latin American and Caribbean Association of ccTLDs (LACTLD) into its registration system. ...

More countries registered:

TLD .kosovo for $ 1,699
TLD .macedonia for $ 1,699
TLD .greece for $ 12,990
TLD .croatia for $ 12,990
TLD .norway for $ 12,990
TLD .estonia for $ 12,990
TLD .romania for $ 12,990
TLD .bulgaria for $ 12,990

The .au Domain Administration (auDA), registry of the Australian country code extension .au, has published its Annual Report 2023-2024. It covers the period from July 2023 to June 2024 and is very comprehensive at 122 pages. According to the report, exactly ...

The World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) is expanding its range of out-of-court dispute resolution procedures for country code extensions. Since October 2024, WIPO has also been the only arbitration tribunal to accept disputes over domain names ending in .cv from the African ...

... for 222.2 million domains, led by .com with 156.7 million registrations, ahead of .net with 12.9 million domains and 140.1 million domains under country code extensions. In relation to the total number of all domains, this represents a very slight decline of 0.1 million compared to the previous ...

... on the domain name industry, as it sets out requirements for the ‘database of domain name registration data’. However, Germany was not the only country to miss this hurdle; only Belgium and Croatia met the deadline. The situation is unclear in other EU member states, where a gradual approach ...

... Identity Digital will act as the backend registry for .ai in the future; this task was previously handled via the platform of CoCCA (Council of Country Code Administrators). For Anguilla, .ai is of considerable importance; the currently more than 500,000 domains generated 20 percent of the total ...

... community: We’re thrilled to announce a groundbreaking development that’s going to shape the future of Web3 domains! For the first time ever, a country code top-level domain (ccTLD)—the .WS domain from Samoa—is now mirrored on-chain, and it’s all thanks to Freename’s and WebUnited’s cutting-edge ...

Freename is the first again: .WS is becoming the first country code to be mirrored on the blockchain!