.Feedback registry owner Top Level Spectrum (TLS) is in breach of its registry agreement says ICANN. In 2016, Adobe and Facebook among several other brands demanded an investigation into TLS arguing that the registry had perpetrated “deceptive practices in the .feedback top level domain in violation of its public interest commitments”. .feedback’ TLD, aims to …
A letter from the gTLD Registries Stakeholder Group (RySG) has requested [PDF] ICANN to slash its annual fees for a year and undertake a $3 million marketing effort to promote new domains (new gTLDs) RySG chair Paul Diaz said that “A number of gTLD operators are struggling” and reducing the fees would give the registries …
Miami-based dotHealth announced Tuesday it will launch the .health top-level domain, with the goal to be a premier web address for brands, organizations and individuals in the health and wellness industry. dotHealth launched the .co domain in 2010, then one of the few competing against the almighty .com, and sold it four years later. Since …
Verisign released their latest quarterly Domain Name Industry Brief, which covers th e last quarter of 2016, this week. The fourth quarter of 2016 closed with approximately 329.3 million domain name registrations across all top-level domains (TLDs), an increase of approximately 2.3 million domain name registrations, or 0.7 percent over the third quarter of 2016. …
Priority registration is open for .eco web addresses Vancouver, BC, 2 March 2017 – .eco, a new ending for the web addresses of those committed to positive change for the planet, has opened a priority registration period for trademark holders who have registered trademarks. Priority registrations for trademark holders will close on 2 April 2017 …
ICANN has announced that it is free to delegate the .Africa domain to ZACR pending the court case resolution. This action mirrors its signing of a contract in the middle of an Independent Accountability Hearing (IRP) that ICANN initiated. This step was taken by ICANN after a recent California court decision to deny DotConnectAfrica’s Motion …
The .Africa gTLD can be re-delegated to DCA in the event DCA prevails in this litigation, says California Judge ICANN announced last Friday that it is free to proceed with the delegation of .AFRICA domain following a recent Court decision that denied DotConnectAfrica’s (DCA’s) Motion for Preliminary Injunction to stop the delegation of the .AFRICA …
DCA Trust is contesting a .Africa Court decision that was made over the Christmas holiday that went contrary to a previous tentative ruling. “DCA believes that all of the reasons that the Court was inclined to grant the PI still stand”. The Thursday December 22, 2016, 7 page tentative ruling [PDF] issued by the Los …
The continuing case of African nonprofit DotConnectAfrica’s vs ICANN for the .Africa domain is set for another hearing January 31, 2017 after DCA filed an ex parte application for a temporary restraining order (“TRO “) PDF motion. On Thursday December 22, 2016, the Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Howard L. Halm issued a written tentative …
A new report published State of DNSSEC Deployment 2016 there has been steady and strong growth in both the statistics around DNSSEC signing and validation — and also in the number of tools and libraries available to support DNSSEC. That growth, however, is not evenly distributed. While many separate sites provide DNSSEC statistics, this report that …