.CLUB bags $2.7 million in domain name sales in Q2 2017

.CLUB sold $2.7 million of domain names in Q2 2017 mostly attributed to China registrars with strong pinyin and number sales. .Club sold a total of 666 premium names sold in Q2 via auctions, through the registrar channel and aftermarket platforms, and directly by the registry, generating over $205,000 in one-time fees and more than …

Phishing attacks using IDNs are hard to block

Chrome and Firefox developers in an attempt to find a balance between showing internationalized domain names and protecting users from phishing are sounding an alarm that phishing attacks that using internationalised domains are hard to block. The latest version of Google Chrome, released earlier this week, restricts how domain names that use non-Latin characters are …

Chinese Community Steps Forward for Chinese TLDs – Forms Generation Panel for Root Zone Label Generation Ruleset (LGR)

ICANN announces that the Generation Panel for the Chinese Script Root Zone Label Generation Rules (LGR) has been seated. Following the Call for Generation Panels to Develop Root Zone Label Generation Rules published on 11 July 2013, the Chinese script community has developed and submitted to ICANN, on 27 August 2014, the Proposal for the …

India’s Telecom Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad to unveil dot Bharat domain name

Minister of Communications and IT Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad will be unveiling the dot Bharat domain name on August 21 in New Delhi to facilitate multi-lingual Internet access, NIXI chief executive Dr Govind told ET. The autonomous body National Internet Exchange of India (NIXI) and the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC) will be …

Premiere IDN New gTLDs cleared for Delegation

The first four domains from ICANN’s New Generic Top-Level Domains Program which are  Internationalized Domain Names (IDNs) were cleared to proceed to delegation. This marks the start of a measured roll out of new gTLDs, which are designed to expand opportunities for businesses, communities and Internet users around the world. These first new gTLDs, or …

Luxembourg’s .lu domains can now be locked for a year in disputes

.Lu provides new lock in case of domain dispute. Country code operators are not required to offer a cybersquatting resolution service, although many adopt some form of the Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP). Luxembourg takes a more hands of approach. But starting next month it will implement a locking option to stop a …

TruthDig.africa

My quest to find the truth about DotAfrica has been inspired by the desire to tell Africa the real history and legacy behind this great domain that is deemed as a key to the change of the African dimension online. Africa . Read More