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ICANN will hold its 63rd Public Meeting (ICANN63) in the Barcelona International Convention Centre from 20 to 25 October. ICANN63 is hosted by the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Business, through the Secretary of State for Digital Advancement, and Red.es, a public corporate entity responsible for managing the Internet Domain Name Registry for the country code .es, and for developing programs to stimulate the digital economy. Speakers at the Opening Ceremony on 22 Oc
BrettKavanaugh.com Website Established...
Brett Kavanaugh, recently mired in several allegations of sexual assault from his younger self-confessed beer-drinking days, has found a website using his name set up as a resource for sexual assault survivors. The website uses the domain name BrettKavanaugh.com. Its a little embarrassing for the newest member of the US Supreme Court, missing out on registering his personal domain name. The website is organised by a group called Fix the Court, who describes themselve
Nominet Donating Minimum of 200k To BB...
Nominet, best known for managing .uk, is donating 1 for every new .uk domain name registered to BBC Children in Need until Monday 19th November. With a minimum commitment of 200k from new domain registrations, funds raised will go towards projects that use digital or new technology to support disadvantaged children and young people across the UK. Money raised through new domain registrations, including those ending in .co.uk, .uk, me.uk and org.uk, will go on to supp
CIRA Explains Why Registering ccTLD Do...
Registering domain names in a country code top level domain often has benefits to that countrys local internet community. In the case of Canadas ccTLD, Byron Holland, President and CEO of CIRA who manages .ca, recently explained how in a post on the company blog. In his post, Holland explains how CIRA invests its resources into our aspirational goal of building a better online Canada. In fact, we believe so much in this goal that weve invested C$6 million (US$4.64m)
GoDaddy Founder Bob Parsons Resigns Fr...
GoDaddys founder Bob Parsons has announced he will resign from the companys board of directors on Friday 5 October to devote his full-time efforts to the array of businesses he created under the Yam WorldWide Umbrella, 7 years after he sold the company and ceased being the company CEO. A serial entrepreneur, Parsons founded GoDaddy in 1997, with the idea that a domain enabled anyone to have their own piece of digital real estate. He changed the shape of the Internet
IIS To Offload Their Registrar Busines...
The Swedish ccTLD manager IIS has decided to offload its registrar business, .SE Direkt. .SE Direkt, which has almost 122,000 .se domain names under management with 87,000 customers (almost 67,000 corporate and 21,000 private individual customers), sells domain names but doesnt offer additional services such as webhosting, which most registrars offer these days as a means of making money. The domain name registration business isnt particularly lucrative when it co