With COVID-19 (coronavirus) wreaking havoc around the world, NIC Chile has given registrants of .cl domain names some respite in case they’re not able to pay for their domain name renewal in time before they would normally be deleted for non-payment. NIC Chile announced they will delay deactivation and subsequent cancellation of domain names that […]

ICANN Chair Maarten Botterman at the recent Domain Pulse conference in Innsbruck ICANN Chair Maarten Botterman spoke at the recent Domain Pulse conference in Innsbruck, giving a key note address titled My Vision for Internet Governance and ICANN and participating in a panel on Internet Governance: Next Generation, which focused on how to get young […]

ISOC-IL announced via a news release last week that registrants of domain names for Israel’s ccTLD are now able to register and renew .il domain names for up to 5 years. Previously the options were for one or 2 years. The change occurred on 1 January 2020, but this is the first public announcement of […]

ICANN Thursday announced the launch of the Open Data Platform. This effort is part of ICANN‘s Open Data Program (ODP) operationalized by the Office of the Chief Operations Officer. The goal of the Open Data Program is to provide the ICANN community with access to ICANN publicly available data. This first version of the new […]

Since January 2020, based on an updated Check Point Threat Intelligence report, “there have been over 4,000 coronavirus-related domains registered globally. Out of these websites, 3% were found to be malicious and an additional 5% are suspicious. Coronavirus- related domains are 50% more likely to be malicious than other domains registered at the same period, […]

ICANN has released the schedule for ICANN67 last Friday, its first virtual Public Meeting. ICANN67 was initially planned to take place in Cancún, Mexico, but has been transitioned to a virtual meeting in response to the global outbreak of COVID-19. The dates have not changed: The ICANN67 Virtual Community Forum will take place from 7 […]

Sales of publicly traded liquid domain names rose 30% to $7,281,979 in the quarter ending December 2019, while those sales using Escrow.com declined 13.3% to $12,195,427, according to the latest Liquid Domains Overview (LXDO) from Giuseppe Graziano’s GGRG. Liquid domain names are considered, for this report, the 614,928 .com domains that are 2 to 4 […]

Cyber-criminals have shown once again they’re adept at exploiting interest in a topical issue, this time it’s the global Coronavirus epidemic being used to spread malicious activity. Check Point Research has discovered several spam campaigns relating to the outbreak of the virus and new websites registered with domain names related to the virus. According to […]

Brief Overview Purpose: This Public Comment proceeding seeks input on the draft Name Collision Analysis Project (NCAP) Study 1 report produced by the Office of the CTO. Current Status: The report presents the findings for Study 1 of the Name Collision Analysis Project (NCAP). The purpose and scope of Study 1 were defined in a […]

The Internet Commerce Association has developed a tool to make it easy for those opposed to any increase in the .com registry fee to voice their disapproval. On 3 January ICANN and Verisign released proposed amendments to the .com registry agreement which includes a 7% increase in the registry fee in the final 4 of […]