Join the ICANN organization’s Global Domains Division, ICANN accredited registrars and gTLD registries in a three-day summit to be held 6-9 May 2019, in Bangkok, Thailand.
ICANN66 | 21st AGM, Montréal Canada 2-7 November 2019
ICANN65 | Policy Forum Marrakech, Morocco 24-27 June 2019
ICANN64 | Community Forum Kobe Japan 9-14 March 2019
Update on .eu domains following Brexit
EURid, the Registry for .eu domain names, has published a Brexit action plan following discussions with the European Commission. Such discussions came about after the Commission’s Notice to Stakeholders, published in March last year, announced that UK undertakings and organisations would no longer be eligible to hold .eu domain names.
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.
