HEXONET Newsletter

Beginning in March 2022, Australian customers will be able to register domain names in the 2nd Level (2ld.au), like Hello.au, directly!

Until now, only 3rd level .AU domains (3ld.au) were allowed for registration (e.g. domain.com.au or domain.net.au), so this is a significant change and a great opportunity for any registrants operating in Australia. At HEXONET, we are actively preparing the system to support your success!

We have created a dedicated .AU Release page and we'll be using it to provide you real-time updates and information for all you need to know about what's to come, and what you can do in preparation. Moreover, we will inform you by newsletter as soon as we are ready to accept your pre-orders, and will be announcing a webinar in the coming weeks to further explain this exciting development.

As of 09:00 UTC on October 15, 2021, please note that the following changes are being made to the .LOVE premium list: 1-character ASCII .LOVE domains will be released and have been added to the premium list 1, 2, 3-character IDN .LOVE domains will be released and have been added to the premium list (Arabic, Cyrillic, Greek, Hebrew, Japanese, Korean, Lao, Thai).

Previously banned and reserved domains are being released and added to the premium list The existing premium domains law.love and glutenfree.love are making tier changes The current .LOVE premium tiers will remain unchanged and there will be no other price changes made to the existing premium domains.

here are also no changes being made to the standard pricing for all other .LOVE transactions. The updated price points for these premium domain changes can be obtained via the EPP fee extension.

.TOP's registry is planning to adjust a part of premium domain registration / renewal / transfer / redemption price from Wednesday, December 1st, 2021, at 10:00 am (UTC+8).

The main content of the adjustment is to reduce the price of some premium domain names’ registration, while increasing their renewal price, transfer price, redemption price, etc. In order to ensure the accuracy of the premium domain names in the list, the list will be released by the registry within one week before the price adjustment.

If a premium domain name is registered in the list during the list is released to the price adjustment period, the price will still be determined according to the price rules before the adjustment.

ShortDot is moving to a "HIGH-HIGH" pricing model on all newly registered .icu premium domains. This change, once effective, will be reflected via the CentralNic EPP system at 14:00 UTC on February 28th, 2022.

Domains that are grandfathered into the existing model will also be priced via the EPP system at their existing renewal rates. All premium domains registered before February 28th, 2022 at 14:00 UTC will be grandfathered into the existing HIGH-LOW pricing model so nothing changes for existing customers.

These domains will continue to renew and transfer at standard wholesale rates until the domain is not renewed and is deleted.

Please note that DK Hostmaster will modify the way of changing name servers for .dk domains. The new process will involve an authinfo token in order to authenticate the request. Unfortunately, we are currently not fully aware of all technical details. Nevertheless, we would like to provide you with this advance information: If you are currently using Hexonet's name servers and we are your name server manager, you may be able to use our API/web interface to manage your name servers. However, the process may be different if you are using a third-party name server.

We are working with the registry to get all the requirements. Please check our Hexonet wiki, we will publish more technical information here as soon as possible: https://wiki.hexonet.net/wiki/DK In the meantime, the current process to update name server is still operational.