Domain Pulse is starting a series of quick questions on the state of the domain name industry and what 2018 holds. Our first respondent is Brian Cute, CEO of Public Interest Registry, who touches on 2017, what are the big issues of 2018 including for .org, what are the growth areas for 2018 and will…
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Registries Aren’t Content Police, But Keeping Trust Is Reputationally Important: Domain Pulse
Registries universally said they’re not content police in a discussion on domain name take down processes involving legal counsels from the operators of 6 European registries, both generic and country code TLDs. However processes vary among the registries. The discussion involved representatives from dotSaarland, DENIC (.de), SWITCH (.ch), SIDN (.nl), DNS Belgium (.be) and Nominet…
The Future and Privacy are Everywhere at Domain Pulse in Munich
Domain Pulse 2018 got underway in Munich at BMW Welt Thursday with a keynote to kick off proceedings that indirectly reassured the record 450 attendees their jobs may not be at risk after all due to emerging technologies. In a presentation by Matthias Horx, Trend Researcher and Futurologist from zukunftsInstitut, considered the most influential trend…
.IS Shortens Its Grace Period
The grace period (i.e the period from when a domain name is suspended until it is deleted) for .is domains has been 60 days since .is domain names were available. This period will soon be shortened to 30 days, counting from the renewal date. The reason for this is simply to get deleted domains one…
Global Domain Registrations Climb Up, But .NET and New gTLDs Slide Down: Verisign
Global domain name registrations continue to rise, with approximately 332.4 million registrations at the end of 2017 across all top level domains, according to the latest Verisign Domain Name Industry Brief out today. The increase for the fourth quarter was approximately 1.7 million domain names, or 0.5%, from the third quarter and 3.1 million, or…