🟡.RU – Mandatory identification from September 1st. 2026 From September 1, 2026, the management of .ru, .рф, and .su domains will be possible only after completing identification via Gosuslugi. 🔗https://www.nic.ru/en/ 🟡ICANN Updates Community Guidance on the...
🟡 1.5 million malicious domains A new research estimated 1.5 million malicious domains were registered during the first five months of 2026. Such a large-scale industrial production, with domains rapidly activated and clustered within a small group of registrars,...
🟡ICANN accelerates preparation for the 2026 gTLD round ICANN continues to operationalize the next application round, including progress on Registry Service Providers (RSPs) and system readiness ahead of ICANN85. 🔗 https://www.icann.org/ 🟡Verisign reports a plateau in...
🟡Geopolitics and domains In January 2026, reports emerged that a Russian developer had recovered the domains seized by the registrar Namecheap. The domain owner has sent an application to ICANN to open a case with the initiation of Namecheap verification. He filed the...
🟡 ICANN – Notice of breach! The growth of registrations due to domain names used for illegal purposes is also illegal. ICANN requests that MainReg cure the breach by 28 January 2026, by taking the following actions: a detailed explanation of each step that was...
🟡 2025 Marks Record-Breaking Year for WIPO Domain Name Disputes A Report by WIPO and the Internet Commerce Association (ICA) reviewing the UDRP, outlining a roadmap for its future and a number of high-consensus and readily implementable recommendations that could...
