TLD Updates

What are new gTLDs? For those who don’t have a technical background or are not from the domain name industry, a global Top Level Domain or g’TLD is what comes [...]

Sunday 17 July 2022 .cn and .中国-/.china transactions can only be carried out with immediate effect if the registrant's contact ID has passed the RNV. From August 1, 2022, the renewal of registered [...]

.AU Updates Australian businesses and consumers have registered close to 130,000 second level .au domain names 6 weeks since they were launched. 35,000 second level .au direct domain names were [...]

In case you have not heard yet, UNR (Uniregistry) has announced a significant increase in the registration fee for .sexy domains beginning on April 30, 2022. All domains registered before [...]

Verisign, the US government-backed Registry for .com (and .net), plans to raise prices in 2022 and will be followed by annual price increases to cope with rising costs, including the [...]

Thailand launched its new .TH Domain Name. The Thailand Network Information Centre Foundation (THNIC Foundation) have launched a three-round .th second level domain registration process for 2022, as follows: Round [...]

Ukraine’s Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Digital Transformation Mykhailo Fedorov has urged the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers to effectively ban Russia from the Internet. In a [...]

The new gTLD program has struggled to make a significant influence on the overall domain name landscape.  While the launch back in 2012 created a lot of buzz and saw [...]

.bank & .insurance: New Domain Name Suspension Policy fTLD is going to introduce the new Domain Name Compliance Escalation and Suspension Policy in the coming months, as the persistent non-compliance [...]

.sbs (Early Access Phase)  or 'side by side' is for community-minded organisations wanted to show collaboration with different community groups.  The Early Access Phase allows trademark owners to register their [...]