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... (Internet Exchange Points), i.e. a physical location through which Internet infrastructure 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 ...

Washington (DC)-based DotCooperation LLC, registry of the .coop top level domain, has announced that it will soon publish a world map for co-operatives. The map, which will be updated regularly, is intended to be the first step in revolutionising ...

With the support of the .nl registry SIDN, the Registrars' Association (RA) has published a security.txt plugin for the WordPress content management system. The WordPress plugin considerably simplifies the publication of the security.txt ...

The Communications and Information Technology Regulatory Authority (CITRA), registry of the country code extension .kw (Kuwait), is releasing the second level domains. The Middle Eastern country has divided the release of registrations directly below .kw into ...

... to no avail. The commercial extension also lost ground in September 2024, with the bottom line being a loss of around 360,000 domains. The .com registry VeriSign also suffered losses with .net, while the rest remained comparatively stable, as in August 2024. .de stands out here; the German country ...

... former country code of Yugoslavia was deleted from the Domain Name System on 1 April 2010. It is equally possible that Mauritius will reissue the registry contract for .io. However, the London-based .io registry Internet Computer Bureau Limited is likely to want to have a say in this. The company, ...

... of domain holder contact details with effect from 15 October 2024. They will be checked as soon as they are entered; if the data is incorrect, the registry will immediately issue an error message. In this way, DNS Belgium aims to improve the quality of its own WHOIS database. However, not everything ...

The internet administration ICANN has published the draft contract to extend the ‘Registry Agreement’ for .com domains with the US company VeriSign Inc. According to the agreement, VeriSign will continue to be authorised to regularly increase fees, but must accept ...

The long-standing duel for the .merck top-level domain has also come to a technical end. The Internet registry ICANN signed the registry contract with Merck Registry Holdings Inc. on September 10, 2024. .merck has not yet been delegated, i.e. registered in the root zone. However, ...

SK-NIC a.s., registry of the Slovakian country code extension .sk, has announced its intention to auction all previously reserved one-, two- and three-character domains. From October 1, 2024, an auction will start via the registry ...