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The sale seemed to be to move the registrar business to a new company while leaving existing debts with the old company. The problem for Epik is that reassignment of the registrar agreeement needs ICANN approval. Epik had also been slow to pay ICANN fees and registry fees. It has also made ICANN...

It would be up to ICANN to announce that the breach had been cured. The problem for Epik is that the clock is ticking and Epik has to have the breach cured by the 22nd of June or ICANN will proceed with termination. This is the ICANN breach notices page...

An unusual move by ICANN and it does highlight the seriousness of the situation for Epik (old or new). It still has to cure the items listed in the breach notice or ICANN will proceed with the termination procedure. Regards...jmcc

The Irish market, the UK market and most of the other EU ccTLD markets. The .COM is lucky because it is the de facto US ccTLD (the .US is the official one). Regards...jmcc

Sorry for the late reply. Been a bit busy working on a project involving all the ccTLDs. Most of the ccTLDs were aimed at the local market and had restrictions on ownership. As the markets evolved, some of them relaxed their regulations and allowed foreign registrations. The problem for...

Yep. The new gTLDs are struggling at a country level. Some of the geo new gTLDs are OK in terms of renewal but even .COM struggles in the country markets where there is a strong ccTLD. The new registration volume per month for the ccTLDs in those markets is generally over twice that of .COM...

Queen Elizabeth II is the queen of England/UK. Regards...jmcc

Probably has accelerated since then. A lot of people who register in ccTLDs don't seem to want to register in .COM so the domain name that they register only exists in the ccTLD and in no other TLDs. The more that a ccTLD takes over in its own country, the more common those unique domain names...

It is better than many of the new gTLDs and also slightly better than some in terms of web usage. The problem is that it is difficult to measure usage from a registrations graph as they are different things. It also has a very different market (a lot of US regs) than some of the other larger new...

Web usage and registrations are two very different things because the zone file counts are no longer a reliable metric due to heavy discounting. One of the worst examples was .LOAN. At its peak, it had about 2M registrations. It only had a few hundred developed websites. Yep. All the good...

There's also the web usage/development issue.The percentage of developed sites in the new gTLDs is often much lower than that in the legacy gTLDs and the ccTLDs. That's the business. If the same regulations were applied to .COM/NET then both gTLDs would lose a lot of registrations. Regards...jmcc

It was the lack of awareness that was the problem. What happened in the mid-2000s was that large-scale Domain Tasting created a very real shortage of good dropping domain names. Some gTLDs had the entire day's drop tasted. That created a false demand. So rather than focusing on the gTLDs, people...

Her heart is in the right place but even in retrospect there's a lack of awareness of how rapidly the domain name industry was changing even then. The switch from gTLDs to ccTLDs started in the mid-2000s and, like a lot of ICANN people from that time, she seems almost completely focused on the...

That was, ironically, the point at which Frank Schilling stopped thinking like a domainer and started thinking like a registry operator. However, it was poorly implemented and there should have been better terms for those who had registered domain names. Higher regfees encourage renewals but...

That's one side of the brands effect in action. People remember Zoom but not the extension (early market). With a mature market, people expect that the brand uses *their* TLD and will type their TLD extension after the brand. This is why people still add .com to a brand in the US market...

Quite a few more already. Some of them have been picked up by portfolio operators. This kind of thing makes a non-viable small gTLD commercially viable as part of a portfolio as the marketing budget is bigger. The .BUZZ would have been a good gTLD if the demand for new gTLDs hadn't collapsed...

There are some new gTLDs that have failed to break the 10K registrations mark. A few are struggling around the 1K mark. They may have a place with registry portfolio operator but their survival as a stand-alone gTLD would be in question. The .WED gTLD is one of the most terrifying examples of...

The .XXX had 90,244 registrations at the start of the month. It might sound impressive but the reality is that most of these registrations (approximately 91%) are brand protection registrations rather than developed websites. Brand protection registations tend to be renewed year after year even...

Far more than that, Biggie, Godaddy is now a player in the new gTLDs game and it has what a lot of the other registry operators do not: its own direct-to-user sales sites. Usage in some of its acquired NGTs is low. Among some those aquisitions are some geo gTLDs. They are quite interesting in...

The level of consolidation in the industry is quite high and Godaddy has been on a buying spree over the last ten years or so. Newfold Digital was the major merger in the last year or so. The acquisitions seem to be focused on ccTLD registrars rather than ICANN registrars. A lot of the big...