From 1 February 2019, “DNS Flag Day”, DNS systems around the world are going to disable some backwards compatibility features. This means that old or misconfigured DNS servers will no longer function correctly. Specifically, zones hosted on servers that do not support EDNS0 queries will fail to resolve correctly.
Serbia – launch of IDNs
The Register of National Internet Domain Names of Serbia (RNIDS), the registry for .rs domains, has launched an Initial Registration Period (‘IRP’) for IDNs.
.BOT
Registry operator Amazon has extended its second Limited Registration Period to 1 May 2019.
According to the latest Verisign Domain Name Industry Brief there are now approximately 342.4 million domain name registrations across all top-level domains (TLDs), which is an increase of approximately 2.6 million domain name registrations.
A special working group charged with coming up with changes to the Whois service that bring it in line with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) published its initial report on 21 November 2018 and opened it up for public comment. The Initial Report responds to the call to answer a set of questions and determine if the Temporary Specification for gTLD Registration Data should become a General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)-compliant ICANN Consensus Policy as is, or one with modifications.
.INC
Registry operator, Intercap Holdings, have announced the launch of their new gTLD .INC as follows
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.ONL and .RICH – Release of previously reserved names
Registry operator, I-Registry, have announced they will be releasing all 1- and 2-character names as well as a large number of short and intuitive names, for the extensions .ONL and .RICH
The registry for .SCOT, Dot Scot Registry Limited, informed us yesterday of a change to the dates for the .SCOT price promotion.
