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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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