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An end to “Club Med for geeks” ICANN?  232
ICANN has dragged its community to 60 cities around the world over the 26 years and 75 in-person meetings since its foundation, but tha...
DomainIncite.com - Tuesday, May 27, 2025 - 14:23
Some people paid premiums for .hot domain hacks  118
Amazon Registry’s launch of three gTLDs last week saw some registrants pay premium prices for .hot domain hacks. Zone file data s...
DomainIncite.com - Thursday, May 22, 2025 - 15:40
.io questions in sharp focus as UK signs Chagos treaty  112
The UK government has signed a treaty handing over sovereignty of the Chagos archipelago to Mauritius, which could eventually turn out ...
DomainIncite.com - Thursday, May 22, 2025 - 11:43
Big .gdn registrar at risk  351
A registrar that exclusively sells .gdn domain names seems to have gone AWOL, and ICANN Compliance is on its case. Dubai-based Intracom...
DomainIncite.com - Monday, May 19, 2025 - 15:26
ICANN “reaffirms its commitment to diversity and inclusion”  510
It’s not exactly a U-turn, but ICANN has issued a statement clarifying that it’s still committed to the values of “di...
DomainIncite.com - Saturday, May 17, 2025 - 16:42
ICANN kills off diversity and inclusion  218
ICANN seems to have become the latest American organization to back away from commitments to “diversity” and “inclusi...
DomainIncite.com - Thursday, May 15, 2025 - 6:3
Kaufmann picked for ICANN board  192
Christian Kaufmann from Akamai has been reselected to represent the Address Supporting Organization on ICANN’s board of directors...
DomainIncite.com - Wednesday, May 14, 2025 - 14:38
Conflicted? STFU under new ICANN rules  107
ICANN community members who refuse to disclose their conflicts of interest should keep their mouths shut during public meetings, accord...
DomainIncite.com - Wednesday, May 14, 2025 - 12:48
.hot is for hookers? Amazon’s first premium regs revealed  169
Amazon Registry made three new gTLDs available to non-trademark-holders on Monday, and so far a handful registrants have taken up the o...
DomainIncite.com - Wednesday, May 14, 2025 - 10:7
Gname adds another 200 registrars  246
Singaporean drop-catching registrar Gname has added another 200 shell registrars to its collection, bringing its total to over 500. The...
DomainIncite.com - Monday, May 12, 2025 - 14:22
New Pope’s .com domain was registered the day Francis died  240
A domainer snapped up the .com matching the new Pope’s name on the day the last Pope died. Cardinal Robert Prevost was elected th...
DomainIncite.com - Thursday, May 8, 2025 - 13:30
Two deadbeat registrars get their ICANN marching orders  118
ICANN has terminated the registrar accreditation agreements of two Chinese companies, which appear to be under common ownership, becaus...
DomainIncite.com - Thursday, May 8, 2025 - 12:54
DotMusic has sold a lot of names, but not many are turned on  139
DotMusic, the company that started selling .music domains seven months ago, has had a relatively successful launch, but one in four dom...
DomainIncite.com - Tuesday, May 6, 2025 - 13:23
.med is a deeply weird gTLD, but it wants to be more normal  161
Medistry, the .med registry with a really strange business model, is looking to normalize its practices and start competing with the cl...
DomainIncite.com - Friday, May 2, 2025 - 9:53
ICANN cuts off money to UASG  124
ICANN is the stop funding and supporting the Universal Acceptance Working Group, an independent outside group tasked with making sure d...
DomainIncite.com - Wednesday, April 30, 2025 - 13:4

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