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Epik is no longer in breach of its ICANN registrar accreditation agreement, but it remains to be seen whether its anonymous new owners can take over the contract, ICANN has said. The registrar has paid its past-due fees, explained why it delayed its customers' renewal requests and promised to put in place measures to ensure […] The post Epik ...
Verisign appears to be getting out of the new gTLD back-end registry services business, with Identity Digital taking over most of its dot-brand contracts. Since 2018, over 80 gTLDs have moved from Verisign's back-end to a competitor or have been removed from the DNS altogether. Over the same period, it hasn't won any business from […] The pos...
A veteran Google "Search Advocate" has said he's "not a fan" of keyword-rich domain names, partly because they'll make people think you're a spammer. John Mueller responded to a Reddit thread from a user wondering whether it's worth splashing out $2,000 on a two-keyword .com domain for his new business. Mueller responded, according to Search [̷...
ICANN spent less than expected carrying out the Operational Design Phase of the new gTLD program last year, according to financials published yesterday. The Org's second fiscal quarter (fourth calendar quarter) report shows it spent $6.8 million on the ODP, which ended in mid-December with the delivery of the Operational Design Assessment. That's u...
Living and working in the UK, it's always a bit irritating that the major, public, US-based domain name companies report their earnings after New York market close, which is usually 2130 UTC, 9.30pm my time. GoDaddy is one such company, and GoDaddy reported its fourth-quarter and full-year results about an hour ago, so it seemed […] The post ...
ICANN has announced that registrants in earthquake-hit Trkiye and Syria could have their domains protected from expiration. It's triggered part of the Registrar Accreditation Agreement that permits registrars to avoid deleting names owned by registrants unable to renew due to "extenuating circumstances". ICANN has declared last week's quakes, which...
GoDaddy has become the latest big tech firm to announce huge layoffs, with hundreds of employees set to be let go. The company said last week it is laying off 8% of its staff. This equates to more than 500 job losses, based on 6,800+ the company's web site reports. Employees at three brands are […]
Verisign is "looking closely" at overnight AI chatbot sensation ChatGPT to see if its technology can be incorporated into its name-spinner tool, NameStudio. CEO Jim Bidzos told analysts last week: "ChatGPT and NameStudio will actually help you find a similar and equally good or maybe even better name and we're looking closely at ChatGPT to […...
Verisign plans to increase .com prices again this year, as its latest quarterly results show its top line and margins swelling despite renewals and overall domains under management shrinking. The company ended 2022 with 173.8 million .com and .net regs in the domain name base, only up 0.2% from the start of the year. Only […]
The .au ccTLD had over 700,000 direct second-level registrations at the end of 2022, according to registry auDA. In its annual report (pdf) published this week, auDA said it had over 716,000 2LD regs. The second level space was opened up in March last year with a six-month grandfathering period. It had 4,160,209 domains overall […]
A new ICANN program could see funds directed to Trkiye and Syria after Monday's devastating earthquakes. Interim CEO Sally Costerton last month said that the Org has created an Emergency Assistance Program, which emerged out of the $1 million it pledged towards the crisis in Ukraine almost a year ago. The initial donation saw money […]
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