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Neustar Registry is now GoDaddy Registry

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Back in April, at the height of the pandemic, GoDaddy announced its acquisition of Neustar's registry business. Any acquisition takes time to finalise and this was no different and in the middle of a pandemic I suspect the entire process may have had extra complications (it's not exactly easy to physically go onsite anywhere and travel restrictions would have added an extra … [Read more...] about Neustar Registry is now GoDaddy Registry

.US 2019 Town Hall

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The .us ccTLD will be holding a "town hall" this week. It's an online webinar which will start at 11am Eastern (4pm Irish time) which will be run by Dustin Phillips — Host, Chair .US Stakeholder CouncilCrystal Peterson — Director, Registry Services NeustarKristin Johnson — Council Secretariat, Director of Registry Global Marketing and Brand Neustar, which runs the .us … [Read more...] about .US 2019 Town Hall

DotUS Organising “Town Hall”

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The .us ccTLD registry is aimed at serving the needs of US based businesses, individuals and organisations in common with other ccTLDs that have a strong link with the geographic region where they are based. In the case of .us the contract is awarded by the US government and Neustar has been running the show for years. Several years ago they setup a Stakeholder Council (of … [Read more...] about DotUS Organising “Town Hall”

Suspension of Kids.us Open To Comment

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Neustar, which has the contract with the US government to run the .us ccTLD, has opened a public comment on the kids.us namespace. The usTLD Stakeholder Council, of which I am a member, has recommended that the current suspension of the kids.us namespace be maintained indefinitely. The rationale behind this is pretty simple. While the underlying concept behind kids.us is … [Read more...] about Suspension of Kids.us Open To Comment

USTLD Stakeholder Council Organise “Town Hall”

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The .us ccTLD, which is run by Neustar under contract to the US government recently established a Stakeholder Council. The Council's role is to help provide guidance and input to the registry on how to run the namespace. (Disclosure: I'm one of the members) As one of the council's activities is to garner input from the broader stakeholder community it has been decided … [Read more...] about USTLD Stakeholder Council Organise “Town Hall”

John Oliver Just Gave DotNYC Free Advertising

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Unless you've been living under a rock for the last few months you're probably aware of John Oliver's hilarious TV show "Last Week Tonight". It airs on HBO at 11pm, but has also been picked up by Sky and other channels overseas - plus, since it's 2014, most of the content is also available on YouTube a few hours after airing. Last night one of the segments focussed on former … [Read more...] about John Oliver Just Gave DotNYC Free Advertising

.Us ccTLD Adopting URS From July 1 2014

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Neustar, who run the backend registry operations for .us and others, announced yesterday that the .us ccTLD will be adopting the URS from July 1st 2014. The URS  is a shorter and cheaper method of lodging a domain name dispute than the UDRP. Of course it's .us, so the terminology is a little different. In .us land a UDRP is a usDRP and a URS is a usRS. Unlike with gTLDs … [Read more...] about .Us ccTLD Adopting URS From July 1 2014