New new gTLD registry Dish DBS has revealed the launch dates for its .dot gTLD, and it’s coming pretty soon. Information filed with ICANN shows that .dot is due to go to sunrise in just a couple weeks — from
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GoDaddy may “exit India” over cybersquatting legal battle
By Kevin Murphy
GoDaddy has said it may be forced to leave the Indian market if a court ruling forcing it and other registrars to reveal the identities of registrants is not reversed, according to a report. Reuters has scooped 5,000 pages of…
Verisign will kill off 37 Kevins (and 22,000 others), complaint claims
By Kevin Murphy
Verisign’s plans to shut down a bunch of legacy services in the .name gTLD has been challenged by a registrant who believes he will lose his domains and email addresses if the registry goes ahead. Doytchin Spiridonov, who works for…
Google names the dates for .fly launch
By Kevin Murphy
Google seems to have accelerated its launch plans for .fly, one of the 2012-round gTLDs it’s been sitting on for over a decade. The company’s registry division has notified ICANN that it plans to open its mandatory sunrise period for…
Harassment down, bitchiness up at ICANN
By Kevin Murphy
ICANN’s Ombuds dealt with 50% more cases in its last-reported year, with most of the growth attributable to community members who just can’t seem to get along. In a recently published annual report (pdf), covering the period to the end…
A free, ethical new gTLD? Shurely shome mishtake
By Kevin Murphy
Another new gTLD applicant has revealed its plans, this time for a namespace where domains are given away for free and the enemy is Big Tech. The Human-Centered Computing Foundation, a non-profit founded in Colorado last November, says it plans…
Blacknight acquired by Your.Online
By Kevin Murphy
Blacknight Solutions, Ireland’s first ICANN-accredited registrar, has been bought by Your.Online for an undisclosed sum. The registrar joins dozens of brands, mainly but not exclusively in the hosting space, under the Your.Online umbrella. Your.Online describes itself as a “group of…
“Bulletproof” registrar gets an ICANN bollocking
By Kevin Murphy
ICANN has slapped an intensely privacy-focused registrar that compares its stance on takedowns to Elon Musks with a lengthy breach-of-contract notice, claiming that the company is disregarding legitimate abuse reports for no good reason. Estonia-based Fewmoretaps, which changed its brand…
Team Internet says domains business sale imminent
By Kevin Murphy
Team Internet expects to be able to announce the sale of its domains business in the next several weeks, coming at the end of a turbulent 2025 that saw revenue, and its share price, tumble. The company — home to…
Two-letter domain auction raises half a billion (dong)
By Kevin Murphy
Vietnam’s domain registry reportedly raised VND 557 million selling 31 two-character .vn domains at auction late last month. That works out to about an average of about $685 per successfully sold domain, not a lot for a two-character name even…