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New Pope’s .com domain was registered the day Francis died  197
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 - 14 hr 47 min ago
Two deadbeat registrars get their ICANN marching orders  67
ICANN has terminated the registrar accreditation agreements of two Chinese companies, which appear to be under common ownership, becaus...
DomainIncite.com - 15 hr 23 min ago
DotMusic has sold a lot of names, but not many are turned on  111
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  133
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  99
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
Web.com getting dumped  141
Registrar group Newfold Digital is killing off the Web.com brand after 18 years as part of its strategy to consolidate its diverse arra...
DomainIncite.com - Wednesday, April 30, 2025 - 9:10
.es and .pt riding out massive power outage  79
A lesson in the importance of redundancy in your DNS architecture? The ccTLDs for Spain and Portugal seem to be largely unaffected by a...
DomainIncite.com - Monday, April 28, 2025 - 11:5
.com is back as Verisign discounts bear fruit  534
Verisign’s .com returned to growth in the first quarter after the company offered its registrars marketing programs that substant...
DomainIncite.com - Thursday, April 24, 2025 - 17:39
Dot-brand actually being used to get deleted  146
A Chinese clothing company has asked ICANN to delete its dot-brand gTLD, despite the fact that it is being used for web sites and email...
DomainIncite.com - Tuesday, April 22, 2025 - 15:11
Verisign gave Trump $100,000  212
Remember January 20, 2025, about a thousand years ago, when Donald Trump was inaugurated for his second term as President of the United...
DomainIncite.com - Monday, April 21, 2025 - 3:27
Private Whois requests hit new low after Tucows quits RDRS  121
March saw the lowest number of requests for private Whois data via ICANN’s Registration Data Request Service since the system lau...
DomainIncite.com - Thursday, April 17, 2025 - 8:34
Zoom says GoDaddy took it down for hours  216
A screwup by MarkMonitor and GoDaddy was responsible for a two-hour outage affecting Zoom’s videoconferencing services yesterday,...
DomainIncite.com - Thursday, April 17, 2025 - 5:35
The Soviet Union might be safe after all  186
The ccTLD from the defunct Soviet Union may be safe from deletion, judging by the ccNSO’s latest pronouncement on the issue. It s...
DomainIncite.com - Tuesday, April 15, 2025 - 14:24
Google says its ccTLDs “are no longer necessary”  229
Google is going to stop using country-code TLDs for its web sites around the world. The company said today that “country-level do...
DomainIncite.com - Tuesday, April 15, 2025 - 13:3
Facebook thinks ICANN is a bit rubbish  304
Facebook owner Meta came away from the recent ICANN 82 public meeting unimpressed and wondering why the community doesn’t actuall...
DomainIncite.com - Monday, April 14, 2025 - 15:47

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