Wine producers worried about new gTLDs74 American vintners are worried that someone might steal their protected regional names in the next new gTLD round. The Napa Valley Vintn...
Goodyear tires of its dot-brand79 For the record, I not proud of that headline. It doesn’t even work in British English. But if I hadn’t done it, some of you...
Team Internet loses Radix to Tucows88 Tucows has scored a big win for its back-end registry services business, winning Radix and its portfolio of gTLDs over from rival Team ...
ICANN’s “review of reviews” kicks off63 The ICANN community has kicked off its “review of reviews”, a hopefully brief exercise in navel-gazing designed to free ICA...
Huge registrars flee from RDRS118 Eleven notable domain registrars have abandoned ICANN’s pilot Registration Data Request Service, substantially reducing its usefu...
Poblete’s ICANN board seat safe76 Patricio Poblete seems set to serve a third and final term on ICANN’s board of directors, after nobody else put themselves forwar...
.com off to strong start in Q365 Verisign’s .com gTLD had a relatively strong showing in the first month of the third quarter, its zone file growing by over half ...
.my is growing like crazy92 Malayasia’s .my ccTLD has almost doubled in size since the start of the year, likely due to rule liberalizations and steep discou...
Chinese domain spikiness ends in first half80 China’s typically lumpy .cn domain market seemed to stabilize in the first half of 2025, posting modest growth rather than wild f...
Registrars agree to higher ICANN fees95 Domain registrars have agreed to pay more in ICANN fees, after a supermajority vote. ICANN said today that registrars representing over...
Got junk? June’s biggest gTLD growers do175 It’s becoming a truth universally acknowledged that when a gTLD sees a growth spike it’s because the registry is running a ...
