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.sas could be the first contested dot-brand gTLD

Scandinavian Airlines System Group is to apply to ICANN for a generic top-level domain, .sas, in what could turn out to be the first example of a contested dot-brand. The company has agreed to ...

.com passed 100 million mark in October

Verisign’s .com registry passed the 100 million domains under management milestone in October, the company’s monthly ICANN registry report revealed today. The exact number of domains ...

Startup America obtains s.co and offers free .co domains to entrepreneurs

Startup America, an initiative to encourage entrepreneurship in the US, has relocated to S.co and will offer a free one-year .co domain registration to registered members. For .CO Internet, the ...

Hackers stole data from Verisign, Blacknight

Hackers broke into Verisign’s corporate network and made out with sensitive data, it emerged today. The attacks happened in 2010 and the company does not believe its all-important domain ...

.me beating .co in start-ups?

The .co top-level domain may have more registrations, but more tech start-ups are opting for .me domain names, according to an informal study. Doctoral student Thomas Park compiled a list of ...

Exclusive: StarHub confirms dot-brand gTLD bid

Singapore telecommunications firm StarHub will become the fifth company to publicly reveal plans for a “dot-brand” generic top-level domain. The company, which offers broadband ...

ARI signs up 21 new gTLD clients

ARI Registry Services says it signed up 21 new generic top-level domain clients in the first week after ICANN opened the program earlier this month. The majority were dot-brand applicants, ARI ...

Verisign to apply for a dozen new gTLDs

Verisign plans to apply to ICANN for about 12 new generic top-level domains, according to the executive in charge of registry services. “We intend to do about 12. Most of those will be ...

Sedari wins .moscow contract

Registry services start-up Sedari has won a deal to support for an application for the .moscow and .МОСКВА generic top-level domains. The deal is with the non-profit Foundation for Assistance for ...

One-year .co.uk domains will be more expensive

Single-year .co.uk domain name registrations will cost more per year than multi-year registrations, under plans outlined by .uk registry Nominet today. The registry announced back in November that ...
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