Monday, November 24, 2025

Data Escrow for your new gTLD?

As a key component of the global domain ecosystem, DENIC Services ensures the secure registration and operation of generic (gTLD) and country-code (ccTLD) top-level domains. DENIC Services provides essential Data Escrow services, relied upon by more than 2,800 domain registries and registrars internationally.


Its robust and highly secure IT infrastructure stores the data for over 180 million domains, representing more than 50% of all domains globally. Operating a gTLD necessitates the deposit of registry data with an accredited escrow agent. DENIC Services meets this requirement as the only designated escrow service in the ICANN RDE programme, and is fully approved under the ICANN Registry Data Escrow programme.

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Thursday, November 6, 2025

Latest news: the new gTLD Guidebook was adopted

Just in case you missed:

  1. The ICANN84 Governmental Advisory Committee Communiqué Now Available. 12 very exciting pages to read and even more exciting starting page 6 of the PDF (the rest is a transcript):
    1. Applicant Support Program Implementation and New gTLD Next Round Outreach.
    2. Additional Fee for Evaluation of Geographic Names During the Next Round of New gTLDs.
    3. Latin Script Diacritics.
    4. IGO Protections.
  2. The ICANN Board just "adopted" the next round Applicant Guidebook (also called the "AGB"),
  3. ICANN Request for Proposal: New gTLD Program: 2026 Round Background Screening Services,
  4. ICANN Request for Proposal: Evaluator Panels for String Similarity and Variant Strings for the new gTLD Program: 2026 Round,
  5. Collaboration Key to Delivering ICANN’s New gTLD Applicant Guidebook.

There is a new "Quick links" pages on the ICANN website here.

.BRAND new gTLD Reports are updated once a month.

.BRAND new gTLD Reports are updated once a month.
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