PIR, the .org domain name registry, have announced a price increase in .org effective July 1st 2013. The new price will push .org to USD$8.25, which is higher than .com! That's a price increase of $0.55. Not exactly the New Year message a lot of people would have liked to receive.. As has been reported elsewhere, however, Verisign's new contract with ICANN does not … [Read more...] about PIR’s New Year Message – .Org Price Increase Coming July
Archives for December 2012
Vietnamese Registrar Gets Slapped By ICANN Compliance
Vietnamese registrar Mat Bao has been issued with a formal breach notice by ICANN Compliance. The registrar appears to be having pretty serious issues. They're not escrowing domain data to Iron Mountain (or anyone else) even though they're a relatively new registrar and would have been obliged to do so as soon as they started registering domains. Add to that their … [Read more...] about Vietnamese Registrar Gets Slapped By ICANN Compliance
DNS.be Rebranding as DNS Belgium
DNS.be, which runs the .be domain registry for Belgium, is rebranding It's a logical move, as the company is also running the new TLD bids for .brussels and .vlaanderen The new brand will be "DNS Belgium" … [Read more...] about DNS.be Rebranding as DNS Belgium
New TLDs The Movie
Pinky of DomainDiction put out a short tongue in cheek "trailer" earlier today. Enjoy: It uses some of our graphics from DotWhat.co :) The "draw" is taking place today in LA Related articles New gTLD lottery tickets now on sale (domainincite.com) … [Read more...] about New TLDs The Movie