SSAD: Whois privacy-busting white elephant to be shelved
ICANN is likely to put SSAD, the proposed system for handling requests for private Whois data, on the back-burner in favor of a simplified, and far less expensive, temporary fix.…
Read moreICANN is likely to put SSAD, the proposed system for handling requests for private Whois data, on the back-burner in favor of a simplified, and far less expensive, temporary fix.…
Read moreThe number of gTLD domains being used for malware and phishing related to the Covid-19 pandemic has increased markedly in the last eight months, according to data released by ICANN…
Read moreChristian Kaufmann, a VP at Akamai, has been picked for the ICANN board of directors, the Address Supporting Organization has announced. He beat former ICANN director Lito Ibarra in a…
Read moreSecondary market domain sales continued to drive growth in the first quarter, GoDaddy reported this week, amid fears of slowing growth in new primary market sales. It’s difficult to gauge…
Read moreSense acquires its great domain fairly early in its lifetime. Energy usage is one of the major topics of 2022. With the cost of oil and gas surging worldwide due…
Read moreSo much time and effort has been spent trying to build up the handshake name system. Decentralized names to avoid the evil empire of ICANN. It never caught on. The…
Read moreDomain broker confirms big transaction. Ballet has acquired ballet.com for seven figures. A cryptocurrency company has paid more than $1 million for ballet.com. Ballet, a maker of a cryptocurrency wallet,…
Read moreKonstantinos Zournas May 6, 2022 Country Code TLDs, Domain Extensions, Domain Name News, Legacy gTLDs, New gTLDs The CENTRstats Global TLD Report Q1/2022 has been published. It covers the global status and…
Read moreCoinLetter.com published a story on Jump Crypto and a 79 year old that owned the domain name Wormhole.com. The registrant owned since 1994. It revived the debate on whether listing…
Read moreInitial registration surge wanes, but expect more after priority period. Australian businesses and consumers have registered 127,000 second level .au domain names so far, a little over a month since…
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