Tag: afilias

Secretive Investment Company Ethos Capital Now Owns Donuts

Keeping track of the merger and acquisitions over the last while is proving to be headache inducing. A lot of the players have switched around and the number of transactions does not show any sign of slowing down. The latest announcement is that Ethos Capital, the rather secretive investment company, is now the majority shareholder… Continue reading Secretive Investment Company Ethos Capital Now Owns Donuts

Donuts’ Afilias Deal Closes

Back in November many were surprised by the news that Donuts was acquiring Afilias. While mergers and acquisitions happen all the time, this deal was big news and to many observers probably a little surprising. Yesterday the deal closed. The “change of control” had been on the agenda of a recent ICANN Board meeting, but… Continue reading Donuts’ Afilias Deal Closes

Afilias to Offer Registry Lock for 28 Domain Extensions

Afilias has announced that they’ll start offering a “registry lock” service for all 28 owned or operated TLDs on the Afilias registry system. “Registry Lock” is a service that appeals primarily to bigger brands, governments, high profile websites or financial institutions. With a registry lock applied it makes it incredibly difficult for a domain to… Continue reading Afilias to Offer Registry Lock for 28 Domain Extensions

Afilias Wins Contract to Run Backend Registry Services for .io, .ac and .sh

Afilias has won the contract to run the backend registry services for a number of country code domain extensions. The new contract will see Afilias handling the technical side of .io, .ac and .sh which are currently run in-house by The Internet Computer Bureau. In the past few years the .io ccTLD has become popular… Continue reading Afilias Wins Contract to Run Backend Registry Services for .io, .ac and .sh

Nominet AGM 2016 [Video]

Nominet has published the video recording of their AGM from earlier this week. https://youtu.be/3IRuUNhp7pg Nominet’s staff got quite a few questions about the organisations finances and plans. What makes some of these exchanges quite intriguing is that not all of those asking questions were registrars, some are also deeply involved in the registry business too.… Continue reading Nominet AGM 2016 [Video]

DotGreen Rises From the Ashes

Back in October 2013 we lamented the demise of the .green new TLD bid. A lot of people who work in the domain name industry were shocked, surprised and disappointed when the .green bid was withdrawn. But we got over it. We moved on. And several of the people involved with the original .green bid… Continue reading DotGreen Rises From the Ashes

ALAC To Submit Objection Against .health

ICANN’s ALAC plans to submit an objection against .health Why? Their rationale is as follows: Objection statements on community grounds will be drafted for the applications for .health given that the four tests for community objection grounds were passed. ALAC were also examining a few other strings including: .nyc .patagonia .amazon However they did not… Continue reading ALAC To Submit Objection Against .health

So Which New TLD Applicants Claim To Be Irish?

The technology media today is swamped with coverage of the new TLD “reveal” in London. Since I’m based in Ireland I thought I’d have a closer look at the “Irish” applicants. There aren’t that many: Afilias Limited Afilias Domains No. 1 Limited IRB Strategic Developments Limited TLD REGISTRY LIMITED Accenture Global Services Limited The two… Continue reading So Which New TLD Applicants Claim To Be Irish?

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