The Freename Forum

... 2024 to 3,711,027, a slight net increase of 28,551 domains. The renewal rate has also risen slightly from 81% to 83%. However, the number of multi-year registrations fell from 6,036 to 5,261. In strategic terms, the partnership with the Shadowserver Alliance was important for EURid; it aims to ...

The .eu administrator EURid has published its annual report for 2023. According to the report, .eu, which now has 53 employees, closed the past year with an officially confirmed 3,684,820 domains, a decrease of 17,444 domains or the equivalent of 0.47 per cent compared to the previous year. This ...

... of Montenegro's .me country code extension, has provided an exclusive insight into premium domain sales in 2023. And it wasn't a particularly good year; a significantly weaker primary market in the post-COVID era combined with slower economic and venture capital investment on a global scale clearly ...

... Internet industry, law, politics, philosophy and security. NORID, the administration of the Norwegian .no extension, organizes this forum every year. This November's theme is security and freedom. NORID points out that digitalization is taking place in all sectors and in all parts of society ...

... examples of the former option from the recent past, which also come with a price tag. For example, one of the most expensive known domains of the year is due to just such an upgrade: In February 2024, the domain tp.com fetched US$ 1,200,000 (approx. EUR 1,127,735) and moved to the company Teleperformance, ...

... which is following in the footsteps of VeriSign and CENTR with the publication of its "The global domain name market" report for the year 2023, will be the big exclamation mark. According to AFNIC, around 368 million domains were registered worldwide across all top-level domains at ...

This year, the Canton of Zurich is once again releasing protected names below the .zuerich top-level domain for use in an application procedure. This includes domain names in which there is an increased public or special interest, ...

The Coordination Center for TLD RU, registry of the Russian country code extension .ru, has published an activity report for the year 2023. According to the report, exactly 5,439,137 .ru domains were registered at the end of 2023, an increase of 12.7 percent; in addition, 768,883 domains ...

... usage figures for the WHOIS successor "Registration Data Request Service" (RDRS) remain sobering: six months after the start of the two-year test phase, the number of requests fell to a record low. With the application of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), many domain registrars ...

... Donald Trump, the NTIA has lifted the cap on the maximum allowable price and allowed VeriSign to potentially increase fees by seven percent per year in four out of six years, with no strings attached. VeriSign's financial figures and the importance of .com domains would indicate that the company ...