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Hurricane Florence Makes Its Mark In September .COM and .NET Keywords
Verisign have released their latest list of top trending keywords in English for .com and .net registrations for the month of September. “Florence” made it to both the .com and .net lists following Hurricane Florence that brought catastrophic flooding to the Carolinas in the eastern United States in September. With more than 300 million domain […]
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5 Ways to Track Down a Domain Owner after GDPR
Following the implementation of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) by the European Union in May 2018, it is essential for those who buy or own domain names to be aware of the issues surrounding the law’s protection of EU citizens’ personal data. Under this law, online identifiers, including IP addresses, fall under the scope […]
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Internet Stakeholders from Around the World Will Meet in Barcelona for ICANN’s 63rd Public Meeting
ICANN will hold its 63rd Public Meeting (ICANN63) in the Barcelona International Convention Centre from 20 to 25 October. ICANN63 is hosted by the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Business, through the Secretary of State for Digital Advancement, and Red.es, a public corporate entity responsible for managing the Internet Domain Name Registry for the country […]
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Nominet Donating Minimum of £200k To BBC’s Children in Need
Nominet, best known for managing .uk, is donating £1 for every new .uk domain name registered to BBC Children in Need until Monday 19th November. With a minimum commitment of £200k from new domain registrations, funds raised will go towards projects that use digital or new technology to support disadvantaged children and young people across […]
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GoDaddy Founder Bob Parsons Resigns From Board of Directors to Focus on YAM Worldwide
GoDaddy’s founder Bob Parsons has announced he will resign from the company’s board of directors on Friday 5 October to devote his full-time efforts to the array of businesses he created under the Yam WorldWide Umbrella, 7 years after he sold the company and ceased being the company CEO. A serial entrepreneur, Parsons founded GoDaddy […]
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ICANN: Data Protection/Privacy Update Webinar – 8 October
ICANN today [27 Sep] announced that it will hold a webinar on 8 October 2018 from 15:00 to 16:00 UTC to provide an update on recent ICANN data protection and privacy activities related to the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). To facilitate global participation, interpretation services will be available in Arabic, Chinese, French, […]
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ICANN Approves Plans To Change DNS’s Cryptographic Keys For First Time
After 2 delays, ICANN is now set to change of the cryptographic key that helps protect the Domain Name System (DNS) – the Internet’s address book – on 11 October. During a 16 September meeting in Belgium, the ICANN Board passed a resolution, with a minority dissent, directing to proceed with plans to change or […]
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Early Access Period for .PAGE Commences October
Google is launching the Early Access Period, a form of a Landrush period, from 2 October for their latest new gTLD, .page. Over the EAP, prices will gradually get lower each day until Tier 5, which is the lowest price tier and which runs for 3 days. General Availability will commence on 9 October at […]
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Use of “7 Dirty Words” Now Allowed in .US
After intervention from the Electronic Frontier Foundation and the Harvard University Cyberlaw Clinic, it’s now possible to register .us domain names with the “seven dirty words”. The change of course in policy by the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA), part of the Department of Commerce, and Neustar, the .us registry, came about following the […]
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Canon Moves Email Addresses To Their .CANON domain
Canon Inc. recently announced that as of 20 August, their company email addresses that until now have ended with @canon.co.jp will now make use of their .canon new gTLD and end with @mail.canon. In February 2015, Canon Inc. attained the usage rights to the .canon new generic top level domain and, in May 2016, Canon […]