ICANN today announced that it has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with MFSD Srl (MFSD) establishing MFSD as a new Uniform Rapid Suspension System (URS) provider. The URS is a rights protection mechanism that facilitates the rapid suspension of...

Highlights also include r4.co, leading the ccTLD category at 12,000 USD and Pferde.net leading the “Other” category at 45,000 EUR. Other notable domain name sales include

Remember those emails that ICANN requires for verification emails that registrars must send to domain owners? For your safety and your domain name the first thing is suggested to do is to verify the authenticity of the email, by checking...

To allow the launch of country and territory names for four new TLDs, three RSEP demands were forwarded by the registry operators. According to .BNPPARIBAS, .GLOBAL, .FIRESTONE and .BRIDGESTONE Registry Agreements, it was demanded to retain the registrations of country...

The Generic Names Supporting Organization (GNSO) Council seeks volunteers for a new Working Group that will conduct a Policy Development Process (PDP) to Review All Rights Protection Mechanisms (RPMs) in All Generic Top-Level Domains (gTLDs). The GNSO Council approved the...

Verisign has just released its latest Domain Name Industry Brief, revealing that 3,1 million domain names were added in the third quarter of 2015. The total number of registered domain names across all top level domain names as of September...

“Innovation is about going where no one else will. It’s about creating opportunities that don’t exist, until you put in the work to bring them to life.” – These are some of the beliefs of the founders of .CO domain....

Cyber criminals never cease to impress with creative and new ways of spreading their malware “goodies”. They, once again, have come up with a new idea of infecting unsuspecting users. The latest trend in launching malicious advertising campaigns has been...

Google has recently acquired another “alphabet” domain name – abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwx.com . According to whois records, the domain name was owned by The Giardino Law Firm, Inc of San Antonio. Prior to him, a man from Tennessee owned the domain name.Moreover,...

The Coordination Center for TLD RU, announced recently that the deputy CEO of the company was appointed Chief Legal Advisor at IDI. You can read the announcement after the jump ” Sergei Kopylov, Deputy Director of the Coordination Center for...