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Effective from the 12th of November 2018, registry Neustar will increase the price of its .biz domain. Openprovider will forward this increase in all Memberships and tiers.

As we have informed you a few months ago, the .voting registry has increased its prices on the 1st of June. This price increase comes with the introduction of a specific online voting software. This means that you can offer a highly attractive bundle (.voting domain plus voting software) to all customers who seek to do online votings.

Two registries that require a local presence for registration of a domain (also called a trustee contact or domicile) have announced changes to that policy as a result of the GDPR: DENIC (.de) and Nominet (.uk).

This week, ICANN has adopted a set of proposed changes to the gTLD transfer policy. In short: the initial transfer confirmation e-mail (“FOA”) will not be required in all cases anymore and it may become very important for the domain holder to approve outgoing transfer e-mails.

Registry Donuts will for the first time convert one of its extensions into a restricted one: .place will get eligibility requirements, which include a geospatial validation component, in anticipation of the launch of a new and innovative value-added service. To prepare for those changes, Donuts will stop accepting new .place registrations on the 18th of May 2018.

.net-domains will be markedly cheaper between the 15th and 31st of this month. The price is lowered from 9,98 to 7,50 dollars. Please note that price is only valid for new 1-year registrations and for Supreme and Domain Membership owners. 

For two weeks only, all 1-year registrations of .com-domains become cheaper. The price is lowered from 8,06 to 6,00 dollars per domain. It goes without saying that .com is a popular extension, so please notify your customers and place your orders.

Until the 1st of August, you can nominate your favourite .eu website for the .eu Web Awards 2018. Don’t think this is just for fame: the winners will get a two-month billboard advertising campaign in Brussels Airport, a custom 1-minute video produced by EURid for their promotional purposes and more.

Get the best name for your online business! Until the end of April, the cost price for “Domain” and “New gTLD” Membership owners is from $3.00 for 1-year new registration.

Whatever your idea is, you start believing it with .MX! In April it’s only $9,00 for 1-year new registrations. Valid for all Membership owners.

.eu has a magic numbers promotion “10-10-10”, which means that for 10 days you can buy a 10-year registration for only €10,00. So, from April 4 till April 13 this year you have a great opportunity to save a lot with the magic numbers promo. Only 10 days. Buy now, buy here!

fTLD Registry, the organization managing the highly regulated .bank and .insurance top level domains, will change its registrant verification process on the 18th of April 2018. From then on, verification is done before the domain is ordered through a webform on the registry’s website.

Within 2 months, on the 25th of May 2018, the General Data Protection Regulation or GDPR becomes effective. This regulation was created to protect personal data of private individuals within the European Union. What can you expect from Openprovider with respect to the GDPR?

Afilias, Radix Registry and ZACR have announced a price increase for their extensions. Effective from the 1st of April 2018, South African domains have slightly increased their prices. Effective from the 21st of August 2018, .space and .pw will increase their prices with $9.00. Effective from the 1st of September 2018, Afilias will increase the price of almost all its extensions.