Tag Archives: domain name registrars

Wed 4th November 2015
Written by DomainNameWire in EN and tagged
.Com's latest winners and losers - Registrar results with .com are in for July ICANN has published Verisign’s registrar data for .com from July. Here’s Domain Name Wire’s monthly look at how registrars performed with .com. Keep in mind that these reports are published after a three month delay. So this post is about July’s results. Let’s start by reviewing which registrars added the most new .com domain name registrations: 1. GoDaddy* 893,043 2. eNom** 218,457 3. HiChina 152,135 4. PublicDomainRegistry 117,568 5. Tucows ... read more ...
Thu 1st October 2015
Written by DomainNameWire in EN and tagged
Domain name registrars no longer have to lift ubiquitous guilt insurance - ICANN waives insurance requirement for accredited registrars. ICANN’s board approved a resolution this week to waive an insurance requirement for domain name registrars. The registrar accreditation agreement requires registrars to carry general liability insurance of at least $500,000, but ICANN will no longer require this. ICANN has decided to waive the requirement for a couple reasons. First, the reason for requiring the insurance was to protect registrants. But most general liability insurance ... read more ...