Nine Indian scripts soon to come live on ICANN root servers

Global internet servers are expected to be ready by June to enable people register complete website name in nine Indian scripts, according to Universal Acceptance Steering Group. At present, website name can be booked in several non-English scripts including Mandarin, Arabic, Russian, Devanagari etc. However, top level domain (TLD) — which is the second part …

Long Road to .Web as Afilias files for IRP

The wait for .Web is just about to be longer after Afilias file a notice and request for an independent review process. Most recently, Donuts that was recently acquired by Former ICANN CEO Fadi Chehade backed ABRY Partners lost at the Court of Appeal. Donuts had claimed that ICANN” “intentionally failed to abide by its …

.Doha joins the list of terminated gTLDS

.Doha is the first gTLD to ask for a termination notice along side two dot-brand domains .active and .Zippo. They join a growing list of new gTLDS that didn’t make it to be profitable. .Doha is the geographic TLD for Doha, the Qatar capital and would be used as a domain name for government entities …

Donuts Acquires .TRAVEL Domain

SEATTLE, Feb. 14, 2018 /PRNewswire/ — Donuts Inc., the global leader in new top-level Internet domains, today announced it has acquired the .TRAVEL domain name from registry operator Tralliance Registry Management Company. The .TRAVEL domain becomes Donuts’ 239th TLD, and the centerpiece of an already-robust portfolio of travel domains that includes:  .CITY, .CRUISES, .FLIGHTS, .GUIDE, .HOLIDAY, .IRISH, …