Coronavirus throws a spanner in the works
Because of Covid-19, better known as the Corona virus, ICANN (the umbrella organization for managing all gTLDs) decided to cancel its ICANN 67 meeting. This would normally have taken place from 7 to 12 March in Cancun. ICANN gave the following statement: “Each ICANN Public Meeting attracts thousands of attendees from more than 150 countries. […]
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General availability .ar postponed
Normally, the general availability for the .ar extension would have started. This means that as of today, anyone who wanted to register a domain name directly under .ar, would be able to do so. This general availability has now been postponed indefinitely. The reason for the delay is the payment problems that NIC.AR is currently […]
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Updates .be domain names will be delayed
The .be-registry (DNS Belgium) was, many years ago, one of the very first registries capable of instantly updating information in their nameservers. So if you registered a new domain name, it would instantly be ready to be found. Many other registries have, also until now, stuck to a system of putting updates in a queue […]
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.cy registrations are possible now
The Cypriot registry (nic.cy) has released the .cy extension. Registrations under .com.cy were already possible. And from now on it’s also possible to register domain names directly under .cy. Moreover, you no longer have to have a local address to be able to register a Cypriot domain name.
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Old-fashioned locksmith needed for root DNSSEC-signing
Every 3 months a special ceremony takes place in which new cryptographic “Zone Signing Keys” are being signed, which will be used the next quarter to secure the root DNS zone. These DNSSEC keys are the basis of every DNSSEC-protected domain name. A copy of the “Key Signing Key” required for this, is kept at […]
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.gay release starts this afternoon
It took a while but the release of .gay will officially start this afternoon. The .gay extension has everything to make it: short, powerful, clear and if you register a .gay name, you also do charity at the same time.
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Domain names and Brexit: all of a sudden nothing happened
As you probably will know, the United Kingdom left the European Union on January 31st 2020. What are the consequences of the Brexit for .domain name registrations? We were kept in the dark for quite a while but so was the .eu registry itself.
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