Taliban seizing domains to silence journalists57 The Taliban is attempting to close down independent media outlets in Afghanistan by deleting their .af domain names. The Ministry of Co...
McCarthy wins Nominet director election51 Kieren McCarthy, the former reporter who has spent much of his career bashing .uk registry Nominet in the pages of The Register, has be...
Paraguay to chair the GAC71 Paraguayan government official Nicolas Caballero has been elected as the next chair of ICANN’s Governmental Advisory Committee. H...
ICANN approves ccTLD-killer policy199 ICANN has formally adopted a policy that would enable it to remove ccTLDs from the DNS root when their associated countries cease to ex...
.br tops five million names107 Brazil’s .br ccTLD has topped five million registered domains for the first time. Stats provided by registry NIC.br show that the...
ICANN returning to Puerto Rico108 ICANN has added Puerto Rico back on its list of future meeting venues after cancelling this year’s trip to San Juan due to the pa...
.au passes four million names as 2LDs surge100 Australia’s .au domains has surpassed four million registered names for the first time, boosted by second-level regs. The milesto...
Nominet gets new CFO93 Nominet has recruited Vodafone’s head of finance to be its new CFO. The company announced today that Carolyn Bedford will join on...
