To asses the impact which adding over 1000 of new domain name extensions will have on current systems, ICANN has asked Interisle Consulting to analyse the log files of one of the internet root-servers. The review of the logs revealed that a surprisingly large amount of requests is for domain names under extensions that actually […]
Read more >Since ICANN is no longer publishing a spreadsheet with information on all new gTLD requests, we thought it would be a good idea if we would make the overview we compiled of this public. Anybody in need of an easy to browse through overview of all new gTLD requests in one spreadsheet you can sort […]
Read more >ICANN just released actual dates for when they expect the first new gTLD’s to launch. The first TLD’s should be put in the root zones September 5’th 2013. From then on, it will however still take a month before the first sunrises actually start. Do keep in mind that the first TLD’s will all be […]
Read more >Shortly after the .nl-registry revealed that one of their systems had been hacked into and sensitive information might have been stolen, dns.be also released information about a hack on their website.
Read more >The SIDN (.nl-registry) reported earlier today that one of their servers had been compromised. Malicious software had been installed and the hackers even had access to a list of user-names of registrars and encrypted passwords. The registry hasn’t revealed how safe this encryption was, but abuse of these passwords isn’t ruled out.
Read more >As we reported earlier, last October Nominet (the .uk-registry) was contemplating opening up for registrations directly under .uk. For now, only registrations on the third level (like under .co.uk or .org.uk) are possible. They received lots of feedback on this idea and now have to conclude that just opening up the second level wouldn’t be […]
Read more >First the not so surprising news: ICANN today officially found “hotels” too similar to “hoteis” (which means “hotels” in Portuguese) and they found “unicorn” too similar to “unicom”.
Read more >Earlier this week a new TLD was launched, but it seems hardly anybody noticed. The “Universal Postal Union” had requested the TLD “.post” in 2003. It took about 6 years to get approved and another 3 years before it now actually (sort of) launched.
Read more >Our correspondent in Uruguay has informed us that the .uy-registry will most probably announce the release of registrations directly under .uy within the coming days or weeks. Because this is not official yet, an exact launch date isn’t know yet.
Read more >The registry of Panama is holding an unannounced sunrise for second level domain name registrations under .pa. Until now, only registrations under subdomains like .com.pa or .org.pa where possible. While not officially announced on the registries website yet, we have received confirmation that a sunrise procedure for direct registrations under .pa has started. Any holder […]
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