US government’s DotGov Program has finally introduced an additional security measure to help ensure only legitimate domain registrations under its restricted .GOV TLD.
The five-year Right of Registration period launched back in June 2014 by Nominet, the registry operator for the .UK ccTLD, has come to an end. Domain holders of third-level .UK domains (.CO.UK, .ORG.UK, .ME.UK, .NET.UK, .PLC.UK and .LTD.UK) had until 25 June to secure their equivalent shorter second-level .UK domains before they were released to the public.
A question mark hangs over the future of .IO the ccTLD for the British Indian Ocean Territory based on on the Legal Consequences of the Separation of the Chagos Archipelago from Mauritius in 1965.
The number of domain registrations has risen year on year by 4.9% according to the latest industry data from Verisign’s Domain Name Industry Brief
