Domain names are mission critical brand assets and consumers trust them to signpost to authentic content and services. Disruption to domain name and DNS services means our email stops working, apps and websites cannot be readily found or the confidentiality, integrity and availability of corporate and consumer data is compromised.
Ken Taylor, Director of Business Development, previews the next INTA Leadership Meeting in Austin Texas.
Back in 2011, ICM, the registry operator of the .XXX gTLD encouraged rights owners to block their trademarks during the launch period of this adult orientated registry. In two busy summer months, over 80,000 rights owners applied for blocks that exactly matched their marks under the .XXX Sunrise B scheme.
Since GDPR came into force the question of the future or Whois has been asked. In May the ICANN Board adopted 27 of the 29 recommendations from Phase 1 of the Expedited Policy Development Process for gTLD Registration Data (EPDP). What’s next?
Recently, the right of registration period for .uk domains closed and those domains that remained unclaimed were released by .uk domain registry, Nominet. Here we ask Nick Wood questions about the process and what brand owners can do if they missed a domain they wished to have registered.
NIC Bolivia, the registry for .BO domains, has announced the introduction of IDNs.
The Start of Something Big
ICANN publishes a paper entitled, ICANN Org’s Readiness to Support Future Rounds of New gTLDs. Outlining ICANN’s assumptions for policy implementation and operational readiness for a subsequent round of new gTLDs.
Latest global domain name counts for ccTLDs country code domains outperformed other domains in percentage growth over the last year.
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.
During the Global Domains Division (GDD) Summit in Bangkok from the 6-9th of May 2019, Dietmar Lenden of Com Laude/Valideus sat on the panel for .BRAND Registry Operations: Business Continuity and Resilience. This talk outlined key steps to help brands ensure business continuity and resilience of their registry.
