This is the March edition of Anchovy News. Here you will find articles concerning ICANN, the domain name industry and the recuperation of domain names across the globe. ...more
Register.SI, the Registry responsible for running the Slovenian .SI country code Top Level Domain (ccTLD), has recently reaffirmed its commitment to ensuring "stable, safe and reliable operations"......more
On 29 May 2020, Verisign released their latest Domain Name Industry Brief detailing the number of reported domain names registered across all the Top Level Domains (TLDs). ...more
Stichting Internet Domeinregistratie Nederland or SIDN, the Registry operator of the country code Top Level Domain (ccTLD) .NL (the Netherlands) appears to be increasing its efforts in its fight against cybercrime....more
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SWITCH, the Registry responsible for running the .CH country code Top Level Domain (ccTLD), recently announced that in late December 2019 some 100,000 .CH domain names had been registered using Domain Name System Security...more
At the beginning of January 2020, the Registry for .PS (Palestine), the Palestinian Nation Internet Naming Authority (PNINA), made available a number of single character .PS domain names. In doing so, the .PS Registry joined...more
The University of Cyprus, the Registry for .CY domain names, recently introduced a new online system for the registration and management of Cypriot domain names. At the same time the Registry also announced that it had...more
EURid, the Registry operating the .EU Top Level Domain (TLD) for Europe, launched the .e? TLD (".EU" in Greek) on 14 November 2019. EURid had already launched the Cyrillic equivalent .
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A 30-page Report by the 12-member Emoji Study Group (ESG) of ICANN’s Country-Code Names Supporting Organization (CCNSO) has reiterated a number of problematic issues that were highlighted in a previous ICANN report on the...more
A recent blog post by the manager of the Netherlands country code Top Level Domain (ccTLD) .NL, SIDN, indicated that only 150 of the 5.8 million .NL domain names are secured with .NL Control, SIDN’s Registry Lock Service.
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NASK, the organisation responsible for the Top Level Domain .PL (Poland), recently announced the introduction of a Registry Lock service for .PL domain names.
Locking a domain name at the Registry level provides an added...more
dotFM, the Registry responsible for the .FM Top Level Domain (TLD), is to join the handful of TLDs that are making emoji domain names available to register. ...more
Emoji, the pictorial symbols typically presented in a colourful cartoon form, are nowadays being widely used on smartphones, in chat, in email applications and in social media. Their increasing popularity has prompted the...more