Vanuatu’s telecommunications regulator announced this week that their ccTLD .vu has successfully transitioned to Neustar’s registry platform. The Office of the Vanuatu Telecommunications, Radiocommunications and Broadcasting Regulator (TRBR) selected Neustar to be the Registry Operator for the .vu country code Top-Level Domain (ccTLD) in August 2019 following a highly competitive Request for Proposal (RFP) process […]

Brief Overview Purpose: The purpose of this public comment is to seek community input on ICANN‘s draft FY21-25 Operating & Financial Plan and draft FY21 Operating Plan and Budget. Current Status: Following the community’s inputs on the key Operating Initiatives and Financial assumptions and projection from June to August, 2019. ICANN Organization (ICANN org) prepared […]

Tokelau is the world’s largest country in Nominet’s 2019 ccTLD world map that shows country’s size relative to their domain name registrations, followed by China, Germany and the UK. The tiny island of Tokelau with a population of 1,500 and an area of 10 square kilometres dominates, with over 25 million domains registered. Its popularity […]

ICANN this week published the results of the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) Customer Engagement Survey which measures customer satisfaction with the IANA functions. The overall score amongst all customer segments was 3.9 out of 5. In the 2019 IANA Customer Engagement Survey, customers were asked to rate the IANA team on 20 statements relating […]

Created with The GIMP Following a decision in October where the Chilean Supreme Court forced Chile’s ccTLD manager NIC Chile to release limited domain name registrant information, there have been 4 requests, and one subsequently withdrawn. In the first of 2 announcements [Spanish] on 5 December NIC Chile said they had received 4 new requests […]

A joint European-United States operation has seen 30,506 domain names seized that distributed counterfeit and pirated items over the internet during the tenth iteration of Operation In Our Sites (IOS X). The counterfeit and pirated items distributed included counterfeit pharmaceuticals and pirated movies, illegal television streaming, music, software, electronics and other bogus products. IOS X […]

It was one of those weeks where there were no big sales, nothing topping the 6-figure mark. So it was left to saxx.com to top the Domain Name Journal chart of top reported sales for the week ending 10 November, selling for a nice $65,000 through Sedo. Coming in second and third were were oli.com […]

For the first time in the IGF history, Germany will be hosting the Annual Meeting of the United Nations’ Internet Governance Forum this year. Under the overarching theme ‘One World. One Net. One Vision.’ several thousand delegates of governments and international organisations will come together from all parts of the world with international representatives from […]

To celebrate Catalonia’s National Day, puntCAT is offering discount codes to renew .cat domains, but the last day to apply for a discount code is today, 18 November, with codes valid until 31 January. To apply for a discount code, go to decomptes.fundacio.cat and answer the question, then share the promotion on social networks or […]

[news release] The Global Commission on the Stability of Cyberspace (GCSC) issued today [12 Nov] its final report Advancing Cyberstability, as part of a panel held at the 2019 Paris Peace Forum. Stef Blok, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands, Jean-Yves Le Drian, Minister of Europe and Foreign Affairs of France, and David Koh, […]