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Happy Birthday .sydney

New South Wales businesses and individuals today celebrated a milestone with the .sydney domain namespace marking its one year anniversary. Since launching the world's most iconic web address a year ago, almost 9,000 domain names have been registered under .sydney.

Priority Access Program for Verisign’s First IDN New gTLD, .コム

Verisign launched its first IDN new gTLD, .コム - the .com you know, now in Japanese - on Dec. 9, 2015 at 12:00 a.m. UTC. We recently submitted updated TLD Startup Information for .コム to ICANN, extending the end date for the .コム Sunrise Period from Jan. 31, 2016, to March 14, 2016, and shifting the dates of the subsequent registration periods.

PowerMTA Now Offers Scheduled Delivery Control

In PowerMTA v4.5 and later versions messages can now be scheduled for delivery. The feature allows for scheduling multiple delivery windows.

New .PET Domain Sunrise Period Begins January 19

Afilias, a leading domain registry operator, today announces that the Sunrise Period for the new “dot PET” or .PET top level domain is now open for eligible trademark holders only.

.CO Hits 2 Million Domains as Premium Sales Surge

Neustar, Inc., the operator of the .CO Top-Level Domain, today announced that .CO has surpassed 2 million total domain names under management, with new domain registration growth accelerating from 10 percent in 2014 to 18 percent in 2015.

Neustar’s Career Site Launched Under Its Own Branded TLD: ‘careers.neustar’

We're proud to announce that Neustar's careers webpage has been re-launched as a stand-alone website: careers.neustar

Data Volumes and Network Stress to Be Top IoT Concerns

A new research commissioned by Neustar on many guises of the Internet of Things (IoT) reveals that despite being the topic du jour of 2015, IT departments' No. 1 concern is that the resulting explosion in data volumes will start to overwhelm their networks in 2016, leading to security concerns around keeping all the extra data safe.

DKIM for ESPs: The Struggle of Living Up to the Ideal

Given the increase in email fraud (phishing) and an increasingly complex email landscape, it is increasingly important for email service providers to implement email authentication properly.

Reactivation Campaign: Shared vs. Dedicated IPs

Within the digital messaging industry, an opportunity will sometimes arise for an email marketing manager to send a re-activation campaign to dormant email addresses, in order to galvanize subscribers who don't respond to your messaging.

Radix Closes Holiday Sales With Over 35K Paid Registrations

Radix has been actively working behind the scenes to create a splash across the domain name market with aggressive Black Friday and Cyber Monday deals.