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Company's Innovation Labs will become a separate company. Domain name company Identity Digital has spun out its nascent agent identity initiative into a new company called Known. Identity Digital launched a division called Innovation Labs earlier this year. It described its initial initiative, DNSid...
Journey to the West Corporation, a Chinese company, says it has applied for more than 100 top level domain names. Its website lists 323 primary and replacement strings related to China. Domain Name Wire notes this is the first such disclosure it has seen that includes internationalised strings.
ICANN's Board Accountability Mechanisms Committee has denied a reconsideration request from LaToya Hopelyn Johnson-McKenzie, a prospective new TLD applicant who had sought extra time to apply. The request concerned the deadline for submitting top level domain applications. Domain Name Wire reports the committee rejected the appeal for an extension.
The number of registered domain names has surpassed 400 million for the first time, according to Verisign's latest Domain Name Industry Brief. The company recorded 401.6 million registrations as of the end of the reporting period, marking a milestone for the global domain name base.
Verisign has published its Q2 2026 Domain Name Industry Brief, showing combined.com and.net registrations reached 179.1 million. The report offers a snapshot of domain registration trends across the two extensions during the quarter. The full brief is available at DNIB.com.
Company files launch plans for three more top level domains. Google Registry has filed plans with ICANN to launch the .eat, .here, and .fly top level domain names. The company applied for the domains in the 2012 top level domain expansion round. With the 2026 round application window about to close,...
Companies have about a month left to apply to provide backend registry services for new top level domains. New top level domain name applications are due on August 12, and that date is also the deadline to apply to be a Registration Service Provider (RSP), ICANN has announced. RSPs are backend regis...
Two-way agreement will syndicate listings between the two platforms. Two years after announcing its Atom Distribution Network, domain sales platform Atom has landed a big fish. Starting today, Atom is syndicating Premium and Plus listings to Dynadot. Dynadot has 11 million domains under management, ...
Domain Name Wire | Domain Name News. # ICANN opens application period for new top level domains. Andrew Allemann 3 Comments May 1, 2026. Fourteen years after the last round closed, ICANN has opened a brief window to apply for new top level domains. Andrew Allemann has been registering domains for ov...
# .AI domain name prices going up $20. **Registry is increasing prices by 14% on March 5.**. Registering and renewing .ai domain names is about to get more expensive. The .ai domain name has become extremely popular during the artificial intelligence boom. This has created a windfall for Anguilla, t...
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