As ICANN’s Expenses Soar and Income Plateaus, Will Costs to Registries, Registrars and Registrants Have to Rise?

ICANN published its tax returns for itself and its affiliate Public Technical Identifiers for the year ending 30 June 2024 this week. When combined with looking at the corresponding annual reports, they show soaring expenditures but income has plateaued. While ICANN attributes some of the increased expenditure to the upcoming new gTLD expansion, what does this mean for registries, registrars and registrants? Higher prices?

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DENIC’s Andreas Musielak Heads From Frankfurt to Salzburg Taking Over as nic.at CEO as Richard Wein to Retire

Andreas Musielak, currently Chief Operating Officer at DENIC, will be heading from Frankfurt to Salzburg mid-year to take on the role of Commercial Managing Director and CEO at nic.at, the Austrian registry announced Tuesday.

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PIR and IWF Partner To Assist All Domain Registries in Battle Against CSAM

Public Interest Registry, the team behind .org, and the UK’s Internet Watch Foundation have partnered to make available tools to all domain name registries in the global battle against child sexual abuse material.

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Vienna Calling for Domain Pulse 2024: Looking at Where Future Technologies are Leading Us and Domain Industry Updates

The agenda and venue for next edition of the Domain Pulse meeting, to be held in Vienna from 22 to 23 February, have now been released. And registration is now open.

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Italian Digital Marketing Agency Wins Main Prize in .EU Web Awards

Last week saw EURid hold the 10th annual .eu Web Awards ceremony in Brussels, honouring the most exceptional .eu websites of the year. An Italian digital marketing company, Web To Emotions Web Agency Rome, won the main prize of the evening.

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UK Charity Hope for Justice Working To End Modern Slavery And Human Trafficking Wins Main Prize in .ORG Impact Awards

Hope for Justice, a UK-based charity working to bring an end to modern slavery and human trafficking, and to protect the human rights of victims and survivors, won the main prize in the fifth annual .ORG Impact Awards from the people behind the .org top-level domain, Public Interest Registy.

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ICANN Celebrates Quarter of a Century Coordinating DNS

ICANN celebrated its 25th birthday Thursday with a news release outlining its achievements in overseeing the coordination of the Internet’s naming system. The organisation was established in 1998 when Bill Clinton was president with a vision of a unified and globally accessible Internet. In its news release ICANN notes the milestone reflects its unwavering commitment to maintaining this goal and recognising the significant impact it holds.

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European TLDs Form Centre To Strengthen Cybersecurity Capabilities and Resilience

Eleven European TLDs with support from the organisation representing 50 TLDs across Europe, CENTR, have launched the European top-level domain Information Sharing and Analysis Centre (EUR TLD ISAC). The Centre has the goal of strengthening cybersecurity capabilities and resilience among TLD operators across Europe as well as fostering collaboration.

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84% of ccTLDs Now Offer IDNs As ccTLD Growth Stalls, But Increases in gTLDs

Internationalised Domain Names may have failed to attract significant numbers of registrations, but they’re now offered by 84% (144) of all ccTLDs, with a further one in preparation to launch, according to the latest IDN World Report. But growth has been limited and awareness is still low.

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Nominet Supports Programmes To Research CSAM and Develop Digital Skills

Over the past couple of weeks Nominet, the .uk registry, has announced it will be funding Internet Matters to carry out research into the growing problem of self-generated child sexual abuse material (CSAM) as well another programme to address the UK’s growing digital skills shortage and pull down the barriers many face trying to enter the rapidly-evolving workforce.

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