The Freename Forum

The renowned @kit congress organised by the Bayreuth-based @kit association will take place again next year in Berlin at Google. As in previous years, the specialist journal ‘Kommunikation & Recht’ will also be taking part. A hybrid event with on-site and online participation ...

... and heavily used top level domain is not compatible with this. Thomas Claburn (theregister.com) assumes that nothing will happen in the next five years. ‘Should ‘IO’ no longer be retained as a coding for this territory, it would trigger a 5-year retirement process described at [the IANA website], ...

... Registrations have been possible since 3 September 2024, the registration deadline ends on 2 December 2024. The domainer scene meets twice a year at the Hamburg Domainstammtisch. On 06 December 2024, it will be the second time this year. As usual, the meeting will take place in the Block ...

... content, the rate was an outstanding 90.1 per cent. The age of the respective domain played a decisive role: at the end of the first registration year, the renewal rate was 54.5 per cent, at the end of the third registration year, the rate was 79.6 per cent and for domains older than 18 years, ...

... that a local domicile or Kuwaiti nationality is required to register a .kw domain. With fees of no less than KWD 15, i.e. around EUR 45 per year and domain, .kw is in the middle price range for ccTLDs; with currently only five officially accredited domain registrars, however, there seems ...

The top level domain .ai remains the domain extension of the moment: within a year, the country code of Anguilla has increased by around 225,000 domains. In the past, .com achieved similar figures in half a month, but the end of the growth seems to have been reached. ...

The ‘Clearingstelle Urheberrecht im Internet’ (CUII) has responded to the publication of the complete list of blocked domain names by a 17-year-old student: as the bloggers at netzpolitik.org report, 39 blocks have now been lifted. Since 2021, the CUII has been endeavouring to combat ‘structurally ...

... 26 September 2024, still contains a clause that gives VeriSign the right to increase the fees for .com domains by seven percent in the last four years of each six-year contract period. VeriSign has always utilised this right in the past. What is new, however, is a clause according to which the ...

Two companies from the same industry are in dispute for the second time over the domain scoopsoldier.com. One year after the initial decision, the complainant lodged a further appeal, complaining of serious misconduct on the part of the previous three-member panel. However, this ...

... 4,000 premium domains still available no longer cost several hundred or thousand euros, but are now available for well under a hundred euros per year. The premium domains include addresses that are particularly short and precise, such as hallo.hamburg, beachbar.hamburg or silvester.hamburg, but ...