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| 2024 review of the .FR TLD: over 800,000 new domains registered |
| Afnic, the association responsible for .FR domain names, published its annual review of .FR activity. Analyses of the activity of the French Internet domain and market trends in 2024: With 4,216,786 domain names registered at 31 December 2024, the .FR Top Level Domain has continued to assert itself as a mainstay of the digital sector in France. |
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| Pierre Bonis joins the CENTR Board of Directors |
| Pierre Bonis, has been elected as a Board of Directors member of CENTR (Council of European National Top-Level Domain Registries), the association of European country code top-level domain (ccTLD) registries. |
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| The Top 6 of growing Brand TLDs of 2024: practices and strategies |
| Certain brand TLDs posted considerable growth in 2024, an indication that more and more businesses are looking to strengthen their digital strategies and improve the management of their online identities. Using ICANN data1, Afnic has established a ranking of brand TLDs. Several actors stand out, notably: .DVAG, .ALLFINANZ, .SCHWARZ, .AMAZON, .TOYOTA and .GOOG. |
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| Can a virtual red cross be placed on a hospital network? |
| A number of international treaties grouped together under the name “international humanitarian law” prohibit combatants from bombarding buildings marked with a red cross. But in today’s computerised world, an unscrupulous combatant wishing to prevent hospitals from functioning has no need to attack the physical buildings. It could prevent the emergency humanitarian and healthcare services from helping the victims of a conflict by cracking the digital infrastructure, without even breaching international law. Would “digital emblems” allow resources that must not be attacked to be clearly marked? |
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| Amazon and its personalised Internet domain: eyes fixed firmly on the future |
| Amazon, a leader in online commerce and web services, stands out as a key player in the universe of brand TLDs. During the ICANN82 Community Forum (ICANN is the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers), which was held in Seattle from 8 to 13 March 2025, Matt Crossman, Senior Corporate Counsel with Amazon, and Christina Badur, company lawyer, unveiled the group’s strategy for managing domain names and the opportunities offered by its .amazon brand TLD. |
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| Afnic
7 avenue du 8 mai 1945
78280 Guyancourt
France
Tél. : +33 (0)1 39 30 83 00 |
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