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    Domain Incite Amazon lawyer DiBiase elected to ICANN board

    Greg DiBiase, senior corporate counsel at Amazon, has been elected to serve on ICANN’s board of directors, representing registries and registrars. He beat Reg Levy, associate general counsel at Tucows, in the two-horse second round of voting, and five other candidates overall, to become the...
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    Domain Incite Toshiba goes all-in on its dot-brand

    Japanese electronics giant Toshiba is throwing its weight behind its dot-brand gTLD, .toshiba. The company announced today that from next month it will start to migrate all of its employees to @mail.toshiba email addresses, starting with group parent Toshiba Corp, which currently uses...
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    Domain Incite Tucows quits ICANN’s Whois disclosure pilot

    Tucows has dramatically dropped out of ICANN’s Registration Data Request Service pilot. The company said that RDRS provides a poor user experience that harms user privacy and causes ICANN to produce misleading usage statistics that show an artificially high request denial rate. RDRS is a bit...
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    Domain Incite Is .io safe now? Identity Digital now running Mauritian ccTLD

    Identity Digital appears to have taken over the back-end registry for Mauritian ccTLD .mu, potentially improving the company’s chances of future-proofing at-risk .io. IANA records show that .mu has started using Identity Digital’s nameservers and Whois service. Registrars say the migration to...
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    Domain Incite Google scuppers Team Internet acquisition after profit warning

    A Norwegian private equity company has dropped its plans to acquire Team Internet after Google changed the way it handles advertising on parked domains, a key source of revenue for the company. Oslo-based Verdane had a deadline of today to announce a formal offer for the company, but instead...
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    Domain Incite .ai channel doubles under new management

    .ai has twice as many registrars selling it since Identity Digital took over management of the registry in January, according to the company. The company said over the weekend that its channel has doubled since it announced its partnership with the Government of Anguilla. That seems to mean it...
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    Domain Incite Trump inclined to back deal that threatens .io

    US president Donald Trump has indicated he is likely to back a UK-Mauritius treaty that puts the long-term future of .io domains into question. Speaking to the media yesterday before a meeting with UK prime minister Keir Starmer, Trump said he was “inclined” to support the deal, which would see...
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    Domain Incite Second new gTLD contention set revealed

    The first showdown between new gTLD application consultants D3 Global and Unstoppable Domains has emerged, with the announcement this week of a bid for a cartoons-themed gTLD by a D3 client. D3 said in a press release it has partnered with outfits called Animecoin Foundation and Azuki to apply...
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    Domain Incite As .com shrinks, China adds another 1.2 million domains

    The Chinese are still registering huge numbers of domain names, just apparently not in .com, new numbers suggest. The country’s .cn ccTLD grew by more than 1.2 million domains in the second half of 2024 even as .com shrank and new gTLDs grew, according to the latest stats from local registry...
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    Domain Incite No more Americans as Holland wins ICANN board seat

    ICANN’s country-code registries have picked their next representative for the ICANN board of directors. Byron Holland, CEO of Canadian ccTLD registry CIRA won the seat, which was vacated last September with the abrupt resignation of incumbent Katrina Sataki, who had already been reelected for a...
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    Domain Incite UK intros global domain takedown law

    The UK government has introduced legislation that would give police the power to order registries and registrars outside the country to take down domain names being used for serious crime. The new Crime and Policing Bill (pdf), published yesterday, is a sprawling piece of proposed legislation...
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    Domain Incite Registries have started shutting down Whois

    Nominet seems to have become the first major registry services provider to start to retire Whois across its portfolio, already cutting off service for about 70 top-level domains. Queries over port 43 to most of Nominet’s former Whois servers are no longer returning responses, and their URLs have...
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    Domain Incite ICANN wins IRP because complainant literally doesn’t exist

    An Independent Review Process panel has thrown out a case filed by a failed new gTLD applicant because the applicant was found to have not existed for almost seven years. A Bahrain-based company called GCCIX had applied to run .gcc, for Gulf Cooperation Council, in 2012. Its bid was rejected by...
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    Domain Incite .com could return to growth this quarter

    Verisign might have some better news for investors and analysts when it delivers its first-quarter financial results — it looks like .com might have turned a corner and returned to growth. The TLD has added over 540,000 domains to its zone file between the start of the year and February 20, a...
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    Domain Incite Could Musk’s DOGE kill off D3’s .doge?

    The creation of the US Department of Government Efficiency raises the possibility of a government objection to .doge, a gTLD that D3 Global has announced it plans to apply for. D3, a domain name consultancy that is promising to deliver gTLDs in next year’s application round that connect to...
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