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CENTR Awards to Include Best Registry as Chosen by Registrars

CENTR, the body which represent of European domain registries, will be holding its annual awards again this year. What’s different for 2017 however is that they’ve added a new category: Registry of the Year And unlike with the other award categories, this one is open for voting to the registrar channel. The question registrars are… Continue reading CENTR Awards to Include Best Registry as Chosen by Registrars

ICANN Appoints Jamie Hedlund to Contractual Compliance & Consumer Safeguards Role

ICANN has announced a replacement for Allen Grogan. Grogan had been the head of Contractual Compliance, but announced several months ago that he was leaving the organisation. With today’s announcement ICANN fills the position quite quickly, though whether or not the appointment of one of their existing senior staff makes sense or not remains to… Continue reading ICANN Appoints Jamie Hedlund to Contractual Compliance & Consumer Safeguards Role

DotArt Registry Announces Early Adopters Including Some of the World’s Most Famous Museums

The .art domain will launch its sunrise phase in early December. Their sunrise period will run from December 7 2016 through to February 7 2017. According to their site the domain will enter general availability in May 2017. While details on pricing and other aspects of the registry’s launch plans haven’t been announced yet, the… Continue reading DotArt Registry Announces Early Adopters Including Some of the World’s Most Famous Museums

TLDCON 2016 Registration Open

This year’s TLDCON will be held in Tbilisi, Georgia on September 7th and 8th. As with previous editions, the agenda will feature a mix of both technical, legal and marketing sessions. The current agenda lists the following sessions: IDN updates Legislative aspects of domain name registration Special ICANN section Marketing of IDN e-mail and new challenges… Continue reading TLDCON 2016 Registration Open

ASOP To Recognise Contribution From Internet Industry

ASOP (Alliance for Safe Online Pharmacies) is often seen as taking a rather confrontational stance towards domain registrars, registries and hosting providers. However both ASOP and others, including LegitScript, often cite the assistance they’ve received from internet industry players in their work. This year ASOP has decided to take this a step further by creating… Continue reading ASOP To Recognise Contribution From Internet Industry

PuntCat The .Cat Registry Breaks 100k Domains Registry

The .cat domain name registry has broken the 100 thousand domains registered mark. The milestone was reached last Friday evening and was made official Saturday. The registry put out a release to celebrate the milestone and are confident in their claim that the .cat domain name is now the “go to” domain extension for Catalonia and… Continue reading PuntCat The .Cat Registry Breaks 100k Domains Registry

Nominet Publish Lyons Report And Board Response

Nominet have published the Lyons report. The report was prepared by Sir Michael Lyons at Nominet’s request to investigate the registry’s operations. While the report was delivered to Nominet’s Board late last year the registry decided to wait until they had formulated responses to the recommendations prior to publishing it or their response. What will… Continue reading Nominet Publish Lyons Report And Board Response

ICANN To Host Brand Focussed New TLD Breakfast Event

ICANN is hosting a breakfast event entitled “The Evolution of Domain Names” in London next week. The event, which will be held at the Royal Society, will have a firm focus on how big brands plan on using domains. The speakers for the event are: Akram Atallah, President of the Global Domains Division (GDD), ICANN… Continue reading ICANN To Host Brand Focussed New TLD Breakfast Event

Want Early Access To .Cloud Domains?

The guys over at the .cloud registry are currently ramping up their marketing in advance of their launch. In common with many other domain registries they’re actively seeking out “early adopters” that will commit to using and marketing a .cloud domain name. The .cloud “pioneer” program is open to businesses that want an exact, or… Continue reading Want Early Access To .Cloud Domains?

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