The Freename Forum

... query the availability of the same domain under 15 other ccTLDs in Latin America and the Caribbean at the time of payment of a domain fee (for example, during registration or renewal). This initiative, first adopted by NIC Chile and later by NIC Costa Rica and UYNIC, is part of the efforts ...

... are intended to be in line with inflation in order to cope with rising costs; however, it is not intended as a source of funding for new work (for example, the nTLD programme or the fight against DNS abuse), nor is it intended to replace other initiatives that would improve ICANN's current financial ...

... difficult to respond effectively to cyber attacks. Representatives of the domain name industry have been pointing out this risk for months. For example, Nic.at Managing Director Richard Wein warned at the Domain pulse that registries and registrars working across borders could end up facing ...

... Bidzos has now announced that domain registrars in the USA are concentrating more on increasing the profitability of their existing customers, for example by increasing registration fees, and less on attracting new customers with favourable fees through new registrations. This is good for registrars' ...

... deadline. The situation is unclear in other EU member states, where a gradual approach to implementation has been chosen. In the Netherlands, for example, a cybersecurity law is not expected until the third quarter of 2025. According to the .nl registry SIDN, progress is slow mainly because the ...

... Namecheap was making additional demands on ICANN that went far beyond the scope of the arbitration award from the IRP proceedings because, for example, the non-binding recommendations of the arbitration tribunal had been converted into binding requirements. Namecheap now has until December ...

... to which the domain name industry had enabled and facilitated malicious Russian influence operations and, in particular, duplicate campaigns. For example, the companies had prevented a number of measures to combat illegal activities, such as withholding important registration information, ignoring ...

... acquired the domain in 2021 for an undisclosed amount, is switching from candy.com to candy.io. The history of candy.com is long and the prime example of a successful premium domain. Domain king Rick Schwartz sold the domain in 2009 for US$ 3 million and negotiated a five per cent stake in ...

... domains could disappear from the internet are increasingly proving to be premature. For domain blogger Andrew Allemann (domainnamewire.com), for example, it is very unlikely that .io domain holders will lose their address. The Internet administration ICANN aims to protect the security and stability ...

... companies are connected, are of great importance for a registry. Internet service providers (ISPs) or companies with large networks, for example, join forces to make the Internet faster. At the instigation of Nic.at, the .at zone is now represented at all Internet Exchange Points in Austria, ...