AUCTION RECAP OF DECEMBER 7, 2021
A look at the final auction prices, closeouts and more from the domain auction list posted on December 7, 2021. If there is an asterisk (*) next to a price, it means…
Read moreA look at the final auction prices, closeouts and more from the domain auction list posted on December 7, 2021. If there is an asterisk (*) next to a price, it means…
Read moreThe City of Hamburg is to try again to bring in the ICANN crowd, after getting cancelled due to the pandemic last year. German ccTLD registry DENIC, along with the…
Read moreThe industry’s most lucrative back-end registry services contract will be rebid, Public Interest Registry said today. The deal, which sees PIR pay Afilias $18.3 million a year to run .org,…
Read morePublic Interest Registry (PIR) today announced an expansion of its registry portfolio of top-level domains. PIR’s acquired the New gTLD extension .GIVING from Giving Limited. Once the transfer is finalized,…
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Read moreNon-profit expands its TLD portfolio and announces bidding for backend registry services. Public Interest Registry (PIR), the organization that manages .org, has acquired four top level domain names in two…
Read moreWhen Amazon Servers went down yesterday we say exactly how much of the US internet is run by it. Between that and Cloudflare they own most of the infrastructure of…
Read moreICANN plans to ramp up its headcount starting next year to support the development of the new gTLD program. Newly published budgeting documents show that average headcount is expected to…
Read moreICANN is not accounting for any revenue from a future round of new gTLDs in its just-published budget, which plots out the Org’s finances all the way through 2028. The…
Read moreICANN thinks the domain industry, including the new gTLD industry, is maturing and will continue to grow, in its just-published draft budget for fiscal 2023. The Org is predicting growing…
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