The storm over since ICANN approved the new .org contract without price caps is showing no sign of slowing down. The ICA posted some scathing remarks about the contract renewal. Last month, one of the largest domain registrars Namecheap has filed a Reconsideration Request (pdf) to ICANN to have a second review at its recent …
Internet domain provider GoDaddy Inc said its Chief Executive Officer Scott Wagner would step down after it reported a quarterly loss on sluggish customer growth and higher costs, sending shares down as much as 5% in extended trading. The company said Wagner, leaving for health reasons, would be replaced by Aman Bhutani, who most recently …
One of the largest domain registrars Namecheap has filed a Reconsideration Request (pdf) to ICANN to have a second review at its recent decision to remove price caps on certain TLDs. ICANN in a decision taken in June end, removed price caps from .org & .info. Namecheap claims to have been affected from this decision …
A new CENTR report has quantifies the use of local languages on country code domain names. The report shows that local languages are popular on ccTLDs. Over half of websites have English as their primary language, but there’s a big difference between languages on each top level domain. CENTR, an organization representing European country code …
The AICPA is in final contract talks with the internet’s global governing body to oversee a new internet domain for CPAs. The Institute announced on Monday that it is in the final stages of being awarded the exclusive .cpa domain, which will provide a unique and secure online identity for certified public accountants and CPA …
ICANN’s published its most recent Form 990 tax return last Friday for fiscal year 2018. Form 990 is a financial disclosure required by law to be made annually by non-profit organizations in the United States, and if financial stability is a metric of overall organizational health — and we argue that it is a critical …
The Q1 2019 Verisign Domain Name Industry Brief shows that the total ngTLD domain name registrations were 23.0 million at the end of the first quarter of 2019, a decrease of 0.8 million domain name registrations, or 3.4 percent, compared to the fourth quarter of 2018. ngTLDs increased by 2.8 million domain name registrations, or …
Reuters reports from Lima that the presidents of Peru, Colombia, Ecuador and Bolivia have criticized the recent decision by the organization that manages internet protocol to grant global retailer Amazon Inc the rights to the .amazon domain. Amazon Inc has been seeking the exclusive rights to the .amazon domain name since 2012. But Amazon basin …
ICANN has moved a step closer to delegating the .amazon top-level domain to Amazon, the online ecommerce company, after 7 years of negotiations with South American governments, who have been lobbying against the approval, saying “seven years is sufficient time for the parties to reach a reasonable resolution, and in the interest of continued fairness …
Protests have greeted plans to remove a cap on the price of web domains that end in .org, .biz and .info. This change could hit a lot of charities, many of which use the .org domain for their websites. The organisation overseeing web domains wants to let the companies behind the suffixes set their own …