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Businesses in the Netherlands Love Their .NL, While Registrar Rewards Result...
Almost three-quarters (73%) of all businesses registering domain names in the Netherlands chose a .nl domain, according to a survey conducted on behalf of the .nl registry SIDN. This was more than 4...
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Global Domain Registrations Climb Up, But .NET and New gTLDs Slide Down:...
Global domain name registrations continue to rise, with approximately 332.4 million registrations at the end of 2017 across all top level domains, according to the latest Verisign Domain Name Industry...
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Registries Aren’t Content Police, But Keeping Trust Is Reputationally...
Registries universally said they’re not content police in a discussion on domain name take down processes involving legal counsels from the operators of 6 European registries, both generic and country...
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SIDN Signs Up For nic.at Anycast Network RcodeZero In More Industry...
The Dutch and Austrian ccTLD managers, SIDN and nic.at, have signed a cooperation agreement under which all domains managed by SIDN will additionally be hosted on the nic.at anycast network RcodeZero...
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New gTLDs Plummet, .NET Slides, While .COM and ccTLDs Continue To Grow:...
The growth in domain names was once upon a time not so many years ago on a sharp upward trajectory. But over the last couple of years that growth has slowed dramatically, with registrations growing...
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Slow Adoption of IPv6 Risks Harming Dutch Innovation Climate: SIDN
Slow adoption of IPv6 in the Netherlands is liable to harm the nation’s innovation climate. That’s the conclusion of research carried out for SIDN, the .nl ccTLD registry. According to monitoring by...
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.BR Hits 4 Million Domain Name Registrations
Brazil’s ccTLD manager, NIC.br, announced [Portuguese only] Monday they’ve reached the 4 million registrations mark after ‘more than 25 years of flawless operation’. There are over 120 second level...
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CIRA Explains Why Registering ccTLD Domains Benefits the Local Internet...
Registering domain names in a country code top level domain often has benefits to that country’s local internet community. In the case of Canada’s ccTLD, Byron Holland, President and CEO of CIRA who...
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Franco-Dutch Research Project To Study Domain Name Abuse
SIDN Labs, Afnic Labs and Grenoble Alps University have commenced a new research project on the “Classification of compromised versus maliciously registered domains” (COMAR). The Franco-Dutch project,...
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SIDN Sets Up Privacy Portal and Legal Help Desk To Assist Registrars Comply...
To assist their registrars comply with the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation, SIDN, the .nl ccTLD manager, has set up a Privacy Portal and a Legal Help Desk. SIDN acknowledges that...
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ICANN, Verisign, SIDN and Others Warn of Global Domain Name Hijacking Campaign
A number of domain name organisations including ICANN, Verisign and SIDN have warned of domain hijacking threats. SIDN, the .nl ccTLD registry, has advised they “have been working with NCSC-NL to...
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ICANN Calls For DNSSEC Deployment For All Unsecured Domains Following Domain...
Following increasing reports of malicious activity targeting the DNS infrastructure, ICANN is calling for full deployment of the Domain Name System Security Extensions (DNSSEC) across all unsecured...
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DNS Belgium Asks Belgians If They’ve Ever Registered A Domain Name. 5% Say Yes.
The internet is increasingly playing a part in the lives of Belgians with growing numbers enjoying the freedom it gives them, go online for entertainment and feel the internet is an essential part of...
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Openprovider Founder/CEO Talks Best Thing About New gTLDs, Company...
Growth and GDPR implementation along with the high costs of domain transfers among gTLDs due to ICANN policies were among the lowlights of 2018 for Openprovider’s Founder and CEO Arno Vis, but there...
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ICANN Announces 2 2021 Public Meeting Locations: Cancún and The Hague
ICANN announced Monday the 2 remaining public meeting locations for 2021 that were yet to be announced: Cancún and The Hague. Cancún, Mexico, will host ICANN70 from 20 to 25 March 2021. The Community...
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