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.
.GAY – Tentative Launch Schedule
Registry operator Top Level Design, LLC has announced a tentative launch schedule for the new gTLD .GAY as follows.
.CLUB announces Trademark Sentry, a registry-specific blocking service that will allow the owner of a US-registered trade mark to block that mark appearing within any portion of a .CLUB domain name, thereby protecting, according to the registry, “trillions of permutations of a qualified trademark”.
ICANN is planning to renew four ‘legacy’ TLD contracts (.ORG, .INFO, .ASIA, .BIZ), which it has issued for public comment following renewal negotiations with the registry operators.
ET – Registrations now opened The Ethiopian Registry, Ethio Telecom, has now opened registrations of .ET domains to foreign applicants; until now registrations under this TLD were restricted to local applicants only.
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
World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) have published a press release which describes how 2018 was a record breaking year for business submitting cybersquatting cases.
News and developments in the domain industry
Dominion TLDs – Price Change and Verification Removal for .AUTOS
Registry operator Dominion has announced the discontinuation of .AUTOS verification process starting on March 15th, 2019 at 17:00 UTC.
.GAL – Price Promotion
Registry operator Asociación PuntoGal has announced that it is running a pricing promotion on. GAL domains from 1 to 28 February 2019, with new 2-year registrations offered at a reduced fee.
