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It’s concerned about the services being offered at GDOT .com. The Georgia Department of Transportation (GDOT) has lost a cybersquatting complaint it filed against the registrant of gdot .com. The state’s department of transportation uses the domain name gdot.ga.gov. It no doubt became concerned when gdot .com was developed this year into a site called […]

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Appeals court confirms domain owner wasn’t cybersquatting with his purchase of TRX.com. The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has affirmed a lower court’s ruling in a cybersquatting case involving TRX.com. The lower court had ruled that the owner of TRX.com was not cybersquatting and awarded attorney’s fees as an exceptional case. That ruling will stand. […]

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Service providers can submit for inclusion in the directory. The Domain Name Association (DNA), a trade group part of i2Coalition, is creating a directory to help groups interested in applying for new top level domains. With the next round of top level domain expansion on tap for 2026, many potential applicants are seeking a helping […]

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Judge said Chinese domain company failed to comply with court order. A United States district judge has found (pdf) Leascend Technology Co., Ltd to be in civil contempt of court. The action stems from a lawsuit Meta Platforms, parent company of Facebook and Instagram, originally filed against domain name registrar OnlineNic. Meta alleged that the […]

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Term popular with AI and real estate jumped into top 10 most-sold keywords. Afternic has released the list of the most popular keywords in domains sold on its aftermarket platform in January. This list is very useful for domain investors, who can search for expiring names and other inventory that includes these keywords. Here’s the […]

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He had a record year. Here’s how it breaks down. Braden Pollock had a record year last year, selling $6.5 million of domains. Many of his sales are headline-grabbing, but he also does a robust business with less expensive domains. Today, he reveals some of his recent domain sales, explains how he prices domains, and […]

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It likely has to do with what these domains are based on, not the list of domains themselves. As investors nurse their losses from the latest round of Trump’s tariffs, many are scrambling to make sense of the Trump administration’s seemingly erratic rationale for which countries were targeted. One theory making the rounds in articles […]

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A recently-decided cybersquatting dispute at World Intellectual Property Organization is yet another example of a company misunderstanding what UDRP is for. UDRP is designed to settle cybersquatting cases, not trademark disputes. It is not designed to take a domain away from a legitimate business that has chosen a name similar to another business’s name. Rexel […]

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Google announced this morning that they are releasing their TLD registry platform, Nomulus, which is written in Java, under an Apache 2.0 license. The company uses the software to run their own registry for their TLDs. Portfolio TLD applicant Donuts has partnered with Google and contributed to the source code – they will also be running a public test instance of the system, which is geared towards being run on the Google Cloud Platform. So far, Rightside (NASDAQ: NAME) has been operating Donuts’ registry backend.

Also covered by:

• DomainNameWire: Google open sources domain registry, Donuts collaborates as pressure on registry providers mounts. The article focusses on the rising pressure on Domain Registry Operators, and a potential switch of platforms by Donuts away from Rightside.

Here’s the full press release:

Date: Tuesday, October 18, 2016 8:00am PT

Author: Ben McIlwain, Software Engineer

Today, Google is proud to announce the release of Nomulus, a new open source cloud-based registry platform that powers Google’s top level domains (TLDs). We’re excited to make this piece of Internet infrastructure available to everyone.

TLDs are the top level of the Internet Domain Name System (DNS), and they collectively host every domain name on the Internet.  To manage a TLD, you need a domain name registry — a behind-the-scenes system that stores registration details and DNS information for all domain names under that TLD. It handles WHOIS queries and requests to buy, check, transfer, and renew domain names. When you purchase a domain name on a TLD using a domain name registrar, such as Google Domains, the registrar is actually conducting business with that TLD’s registry on your behalf. That’s why you can transfer a domain from one registrar to another and have it remain active and 100% yours the entire time.

The project that became Nomulus began in 2011 when the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) announced the biggest ever expansion of Internet namespace, aimed at improving choice and spurring innovation for Internet users. Google applied to operate a number of new generic TLDs, and built Nomulus to help run them.

We designed Nomulus to be a brand-new registry platform that takes advantage of the scalability and easy operation of Google Cloud Platform. Nomulus runs on Google App Engine and is backed by Google Cloud Datastore, a highly scalable NoSQL database. Nomulus can manage any number of TLDs in a single shared instance and supports the full range of TLD functionality required by ICANN, including the Extensible Provisioning Protocol (EPP), WHOIS, reporting, and trademark protection. It is written in Java and is released under the Apache 2.0 license.

We hope that by providing access to our implementation of core registry functions and up-and-coming services like Registration Data Access Protocol (RDAP), we can demonstrate advanced features of Google Cloud Platform and encourage interoperability and open standards in the domain name industry for registry operators like Donuts. With approximately 200 TLDs, Donuts has made early contributions to the Nomulus code base and has spun up an instance which they’ll be sharing soon.

For more information, view Nomulus on GitHub.

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