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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 ...

... The activation requires the creation of a separate account with id.music; in addition, the desired .music domain must already be registered. The registry points out that the aim is to restrict unauthorised AI deepfakes, voice cloning and the unauthorised use of intellectual property in order ...

... administration announced on 30 October 2024 that it would increase the fees in its contracts with registries and registrars as part of an ‘ICANN Registry-Level and Registrar-Level Fees Adjustment’. The non-profit organisation ICANN is primarily financed by fees paid for the registration of domain ...

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 ...

The .fr administrator AFNIC has drawn a positive conclusion one year after the launch of the voluntary ‘mediation service’. Since 3 July 2023, AFNIC has been offering an out-of-court dispute resolution procedure for .fr and all French overseas TLDs; it gives the parties, accompanied by a mediator, a...

The number of domain names registered worldwide fell in the third quarter of 2024. This was announced by the .com registry VeriSign in its latest ‘Domain Name Industry Brief’. Only .shop is bucking the trend: it climbed to second place in the nTLD world rankings in October 2024. ...

NIS-2 casts its shadow ahead: the .de registry DENIC eG has announced how it will react to the planned legal changes, which are expected to apply in Germany from the second quarter of 2025. By 17 October 2024, each of the 27 EU member states ...

Since January 2024, the US registrar Namecheap Inc. has been in dispute with the Internet registry ICANN before the Superior Court of the State of California (Case No. 24SMCP00066). At the center of this civil dispute, which follows an Independent Review Process (IRP), ...

... propaganda included Germany, Mexico and Israel. Democratic Senator Warner follows up on this action in an open letter addressed to the .com registry VeriSign and the five domain registrars NameCheap, GoDaddy, Cloudflare, NewFold Digital and NameSilo. He calls on the companies to take immediate ...

The Government of Anguilla, registry of the currently globally popular top level domain .ai (Anguilla), and the nTLD registry Identity Digital (formerly Donuts) have announced a new, initially five-year partnership. According to a press ...