GMO nearly tripled its monthly registrations, and it was a good month for .com overall. ICANN has published the latest registrar-by-registrar data for the .com namespace using official data Verisign provides to ICANN. The data is always three ... Continue ReadingLeave a Comment
Which domain registrars are biggest in Europe
· Domain RegistrarsHere's who dominates the domain market for European ccTLDs. This is the second in a series of posts about the European domain market, contributed by domain and hosting analytics firm ShareShift. View the previous story here. As a reminder, this ... Continue ReadingLeave a Comment
Cloudflare launches domain registration API
· Domain RegistrarsAPI allows people to check availability and register domains in their AI or coding workflow. Cloudflare (NYSE: NET), which has one of the fastest-growing domain name registrars, has launched a registrar API. The API allows people to search for ... Continue ReadingLeave a Comment
About those .su domain rankings…
· Policy & LawThe former Soviet Union's domain traffic is driven by a botnet. Last month, Cloudflare launched a new section in Cloudflare Radar that ranks top level domains by their "DNS Magnitude", which is a measure of how many unique clients send queries to ... Continue Reading3 Comments
New Cloudflare Radar data ranks .su ahead of .com
· ServicesDNS Magnitude rankings are a surprising way to look at top level domain popularity. Cloudflare announced today that it is publishing new data related to top level domains and their popularity. The new section in Cloudflare Radar ranks top level ... Continue Reading4 Comments
Senator threatens domain registrars to clean up abusive registrations
· Policy & LawChairman of Intelligence Committee cites Russian influence efforts in threat to domain registrars. U.S. Senator Mark R. Warner, Chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, sent letters to five domain name registrars and Verisign today ... Continue Reading2 Comments
Akamai loses cybersquatting fight with Cloudflare
· Policy & LawIt's not often that two large companies are involved in a cybersquatting dispute under the Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution (UDRP). But that was the case in a just-decided dispute between two Content Delivery Network companies over four domain ... Continue Reading2 Comments
Cloudflare domain registrar expands, enables one-click DNSSEC
· Domain RegistrarsRegistrar is now open to all Cloudflare customers. The Cloudflare domain name registrar is now available to all Cloudflare customers, the company announced on Friday. The registrar launched a highly-secure registrar in 2016 and started expanding the ... Continue Reading11 Comments
Cloudflare announces no-markup domain name registrar
· Domain RegistrarsCompany will charge registrants exactly what it has to pay the registrar and ICANN. Cloudflare announced today that it is expanding its domain name registrar offering in a bid that could shake up the domain name registration business. The key ... Continue Reading3 Comments
Heading to WHD next week? Here are some interesting sessions.
· UncategorizedFrom net neutrality to blockchain, here are three interesting sessions at next week's conference. WorldHostingDays is heading to Las Vegas next week and much of the domain name industry will be there. If you will be at the conference and have something ... Continue ReadingLeave a Comment
