The ICANN Community met for this year’s Annual General Meeting in Dublin, Ireland and, while the weather was a bit gray, the conversations and conference sessions sparked many bright ideas. ICANN policy work isn’t always glamorous. Conference centers can blur together, and even the most meaningful topics can test your focus by the fifth meeting […]
ICANN finalized changes to the Registration Data Policy, which sets data processing requirements for gTLDs. Domain registrars and registries are required to comply with the updated Policy by August 2025. Many of the new Registration Data Policy requirements are already in place at Enom and other registrars: We redact registration data from the public Whois […]
Like many things in life, the domain industry is something that seems simple at first glance but reveals itself to be really complicated when you do a little digging. There are stringent ICANN policies dictating how domain registrars and registries need to operate, and a lot of thought, discussion, and legal review goes into making […]
As the world’s largest wholesale registrar and a global supplier of domain names, Tucows regularly engages in policy work within our industry. The Open Internet is an agent for positive change, and we believe in the importance of stable Internet infrastructure and the value it brings to the domain name system — across both generic […]
From an early point in the current global crisis, it was clear to Tucows (Enom’s parent company) that we were going to need to do something new and different in how we responded to COVID-19 related domain registrations. Many of these domains are registered for good, helpful purposes, such as community organization, dissemination of healthcare […]