The Freename Forum

To kick off the new year, we not only look back at the development of registration figures in December 2024, but also present you with a review of the last twelve months. .com remains the industry king by a wide margin, but the decline is accelerating. ...

... As at 27 November 2024, 572,575 domains were registered. Compared to 1 October 2024, .ai has thus increased by 39,507 domains. The positive development becomes even clearer if you look back to 20 December 2023, when the registry reported 353,928 .ai domains. The Estonian Internet Foundation ...

... proceedings is declining slightly for the first time in ten years. ‘Gigalaw's Domain Dispute Digest Third Quarter 2024’ is a 15-page report on the development of UDRP proceedings over the past three months. Doug Isenberg analysed the resolved UDRP proceedings of all five ICANN-accredited dispute ...

... economic benefits of a non-financial nature include ‘Training materials (e.g. applying for a gTLD, becoming a registry operator)’, a ‘capacity development programme’, access to an application consultant and an address list of voluntary professional TLD service providers. The ASP's resources ...

... other statistics: users can get all the data about a domain and everything associated with that domain at any time with a single search.”307 The development of such a registry is a constructive initiative, but this registry must be scalable and reliable and incorporate data from all of the relevant ...

... work will be done on open source projects that explore how human creativity and new technologies can complement each other in open source development. CloudFest 2025 will take place from 17 to 20 March 2025 at Europa-Park, Europa-Park-Straße 2, 77977 Rust (Germany). Tickets are currently ...

... ccTLDs. This is due to limited resources, a more heterogeneous level of digital use and national priorities focussing on other aspects of digital development. It should not be forgotten, however, that in over 35 per cent of countries worldwide there is no out-of-court dispute resolution procedure ...

... communicates with legitimate customers to restore their trust. GoDaddy continues to work on expanding fraud protection. In a list, they show the development this year and announce that they are currently working on the development of technology for machine learning and automation to detect and ...

... favourable fees through new registrations. This is good for registrars' profits, but not for VeriSign. For the full year 2024, VeriSign expects a development of between -2.9 and -2.3 per cent; the registry is thus reducing its previous forecast of -3 to -2 per cent. Economically, however, VeriSign ...

... of cases were dismissed, in 2001 even 15.75 percent. The rate is now around five percent, with only 2.47 percent of cases rejected this year. The development is based on the fact that fewer and fewer unclear and more and more clear cases of cybersquatting are being filed. The parties are following ...