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April 19 Sunrise Deadline to Register Brands in Alternative Root Domains Such As (dot)NFT

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A new internet frontier is opening, one that is not associated with or controlled by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) and shares little in common with the more well-known and used TLDs such as...more

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.AU Domain Names Must Have A Presence In Australia

Foreign entities looking to register Australian domain names need to be aware that the eligibility requirements have changed and the threshold is now much higher. If a foreign entity is relying on a registered Australia...more

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Anchovy News, March 2021

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This is the March edition of Anchovy News. Here you will find articles concerning ICANN, the domain name industry and the recuperation of domain names across the globe. ...more

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Brexit and .eu Domains

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The European Registry for Internet Domains (EURid) launched the “.eu” top level domain in 2005. It offers the opportunity of a pan-European Internet name (for websites and e-mail addresses) for those who meet the eligibility...more

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Registry.SI working to prevent abuse of .SI domain names

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Register.SI, the Registry responsible for running the Slovenian .SI country code Top Level Domain (ccTLD), has recently reaffirmed its commitment to ensuring "stable, safe and reliable operations"......more

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Domain name growth across all TLDs

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On 29 May 2020, Verisign released their latest Domain Name Industry Brief detailing the number of reported domain names registered across all the Top Level Domains (TLDs). ...more

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SIDN and its fight against cybercrime

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Stichting Internet Domeinregistratie Nederland or SIDN, the Registry operator of the country code Top Level Domain (ccTLD) .NL (the Netherlands) appears to be increasing its efforts in its fight against cybercrime....more

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100,000 DNSSEC domain names for .CH

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SWITCH, the Registry responsible for running the .CH country code Top Level Domain (ccTLD), recently announced that in late December 2019 some 100,000 .CH domain names had been registered using Domain Name System Security...more

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.PS joins the single character domain name club

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At the beginning of January 2020, the Registry for .PS (Palestine), the Palestinian Nation Internet Naming Authority (PNINA), made available a number of single character .PS domain names. In doing so, the .PS Registry joined...more

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Top Level .CY domain names available

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The University of Cyprus, the Registry for .CY domain names, recently introduced a new online system for the registration and management of Cypriot domain names.  At the same time the Registry also announced that it had...more

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Launch of .EU?

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EURid, the Registry operating the .EU Top Level Domain (TLD) for Europe, launched the .e? TLD (".EU" in Greek) on 14 November 2019.  EURid had already launched the Cyrillic equivalent . ...more

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ICANN report wipes the smile off emoji domains

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A 30-page Report by the 12-member Emoji Study Group (ESG) of ICANN’s Country-Code Names Supporting Organization (CCNSO) has reiterated a number of problematic issues that were highlighted in a previous ICANN report on the...more

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The importance of Registry Lock

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A recent blog post by the manager of the Netherlands country code Top Level Domain (ccTLD) .NL, SIDN, indicated that only 150 of the 5.8 million .NL domain names are secured with .NL Control, SIDN’s Registry Lock Service. ...more

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.PL Registry lock service introduced

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NASK, the organisation responsible for the Top Level Domain .PL (Poland), recently announced the introduction of a Registry Lock service for .PL domain names. Locking a domain name at the Registry level provides an added...more

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.UK right of registration – have you secured your .UK domain?

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Nominet, the Registry responsible for operating the .UK country code Top Level Domain (ccTLD) for the United Kingdom, launched the registration of domain names directly under the .UK top level domain name extension back in...more

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Is Brexit spurring a .EU domain exit?

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EURid, the Registry responsible for running the .EU namespace, has recently released its Quarter 3, 2018 Progress Report, covering the .EU and .ЕЮ extensions and this revealed a drop in the overall number of registrations....more

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Domain Names: .ME to allow IDN registrations

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doMEn d.o.o., the Registry for the .ME country code Top Level Domain (ccTLD), has recently announced that it would soon allow the registration of Internationalised Domain Names (IDNs) under .ME....more

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Domain names: .DK – A safe zone

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The Registry Dansk Internet Forum (DIFO), responsible for the management of the Top Level Domain (TLD) .DK, recently announced that it had reduced by 3,000 the number of Internet websites selling counterfeit goods or involved...more

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.PT a frontrunner in Europe

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The Association DNS.PT, the Portuguese Registry responsible for running the .PT country code Top Level Domain (ccTLD), recently announced a new record for .PT domain name registrations that outstripped parallel European...more

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Netherlands – Cybersecurity: Hackman to the rescue!

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In May, SIDN, the Registry responsible for the country code Top Level Domain (ccTLD) extension .NL (Netherlands), published an article on the Ethical Hacker Rickey Gevers and the efforts of the Netherlands to make the Dutch...more

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European Commission issues important notice on the impact of Brexit on .EU domain names

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On 28 March 2018, the European Commission’s (EC) Directorate-General for Communications Networks, Content and Technology released an important notice to stakeholders (the “Notice”) on the impact of Brexit on. ...more

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dotFM embraces emoji domain names

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dotFM, the Registry responsible for the .FM Top Level Domain (TLD), is to join the handful of TLDs that are making emoji domain names available to register. ...more

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.CH leads the way in the battle against fraud

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SWITCH, the Registry responsible for the country code Top Level Domain (ccTLD) .CH, recently published an article on the subject of counterfeit goods and fraudulent websites hosted under the .CH ccTLD and the measures they...more

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SSAC gives the thumbs down to the use of emoji in domain names

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Emoji, the pictorial symbols typically presented in a colourful cartoon form, are nowadays being widely used on smartphones, in chat, in email applications and in social media. Their increasing popularity has prompted the...more

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