The second-largest registrar is moving up the chain with 40 top-level domain applications. Fifteen of them overlap with portfolios published by rival applicants, though two of those rivals filed more than three hundred strings each, which is most of the explanation.
A single Telegram channel address in a US sanctions filing took the whole of t.me offline for nineteen hours. Telegram's answer is to apply for its own top-level domain, but a registry contract does not move a company out of the jurisdiction that caused the outage.
The Dutch host has launched an English site and will add European data centers. The Netherlands is the eleventh most fragmented market we track and its leader holds 12.6 percent, so a challenger there has no dominant incumbent to displace.
BalticNOG moves from Vilnius to Riga for its second edition. On paper it is a network operators meeting. Read the sponsor list and the topics and it is a hosting infrastructure event, from IPv4 leasing to BGP hijacks to peering.
Our data across 115 countries: Cloudflare appears in every top eight, GoDaddy in 49. But 375 providers appear in total, 284 of them in a single country, and in five markets the national leader leads by under one point.
More than 1,600 applications arrived before ICANN's window closed, but the bigger change is the rulebook. Private resolution of contention sets is now prohibited, and unlike its 2012 predecessor the Guidebook says nothing about where the auction money goes.
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