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ICM Registry, the registry for .sex, .porn, .adult and .xxx domain names, has announced a price increase that will be effective from the 1st of September 2017.

.top, the domain extension for “high level users” is subject to a special offer, and the domain registration is available for 1 year for only 4.71 CNY. This promotion is only valid during the month of August for members who have a Membership Plan.

Verisign, the registry for .tv, has announced a price increase that will be effective from the 1st of September 2017. The new Member price will be USD 25.00. All tier prices will increase with $2.50 as well.

Since last week, .be domains can be protected against outgoing transfers by placing a transfer lock, just like you’re used to for .com domains and other gTLDs. This lock is an additional protection for the domain holder, next to the authorization code.

Portfolio registry XYZ.com, well-known from their .xyz extension but also registry of several high-end domains like .theatre, .car and .security, has announced that they’ve acquired the extension .storage and re-launch it from November on, including Sunrise and Early Access Phase.

SIDN is one of the most progressive registrars with respect to acknowledging the existence of resellers: they show the reseller name in both whois and e-mails to end users. SIDN has now designed a new logo “.nl by SIDN” that resellers can include on their website to show that they register .nl domains and to highlight the .nl extension.

If you delete a .co domain after the 1st of August 2017, or if one of your .co domains expires after this date, you can reactivate the domain during 30 days after the deletion. At this moment, this period is only 15 days. With this change, the .co registry synchronizes its redemption period with those of most generic extensions like .com and .net.

The registries IIS (.se and .nu) and NIXI (.in) have announced price increases for their extensions. The .in increase will become effective from the 1st of August 2017, the .se and .nu increases will become effective on the 1st of January 2018.

Effective from the 15th of July 2017, the .asia registry will simplify its eligibility requirements and will no longer require an address in the Asia-Pacific region for registration of a .asia domain. The new Charter Eligibility Declaration states that all “entities that have established, seeking or have nexus relationship and presence within the Sponsor Community” are eligible to register a .asia domain.

Registries Norid (.no) and BermudaNIC (.bm) have announced price increases to their extensions. Uniregistry has mitigated a part of their previously announced price increases.

User passwords expire every 180 days. When a user signs into the RCP with an expired password, they will be prompted to create a new password. Previously, changing the password at the prompt was optional, but in the interest of increased security, we have decided to make it mandatory.