This is the February 2025 edition of Anchovy News. Here you will find articles concerning ICANN, the domain name industry and the recuperation ...

Tucows has dramatically dropped out of ICANN’s Registration Data Request Service pilot. The company said that RDRS provides a poor user experience that harms user privacy and causes ICANN to produce ...

The domain in question is dotmobiregistry.net - which used to host the WHOIS server for .mobi. A WHOIS server provides ...

Three more of Google’s stockpile of long-dormant gTLDs showed signs of activity recently, strongly suggesting the company may be preparing to launch them. The domains get.eat, get.fly and get.here ...

Another option is to use a WHOIS lookup service, which is a database that keeps track of domain name registration information, including the name and contact information of the domain registrant.