Peter Vergote has been elected chair of CENTR. Mr Vergote works in the legal and policy team with the .be registry. The election took place at the organisation’s meeting earlier today in Salzburg. The previous chair was Mathieu Wiell, AFNIC’s CEO.
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Nominet Publish Draft Member Code
Nominet, the domain registry for the .uk ccTLD, has published a draft “member code”. Nominet’s structure means that its registrars are also “members” of the organisation, so this move is quite an interesting one. You can read the draft text on the Nominet site here. From an initial reading the “code” appears to be quite [...]
First Decision Under New French Dispute System Published
AFNIC’s new dispute resolution system, Syreli, is now live with one decision published so far. The first case involved infragenius.fr The case was processed fully in less than a month, with the initial complaint being logged on November 22nd 2011 and the decision being handed down on December 19th 2011. The first case was pretty [...]
Is The Gabon Registry Offline?
It looks like the Gabon registry is having issues of some kind. While it’s not unheard of for a domain registry operator to have technical difficulties they’re usually “blips”. In the case of the .ga registry, however, it looks like the zone has been having serious issues since September of last year! Stéphane Bortzmeyer conducted [...]
Irish Domain Registry Reports Growth
IEDR, the current registry operator of the .ie ccTLD, has reported overall growth of 12.9% in the name space during 2011. The renewal rate has also improved compared to the previous year. More details here.
V.me Goes To Visa
Visa has acquired the domain v.me and is going to use it for a “digital wallet” and “global acceptance mark”. The service will be called v.me – obviously. Here’s the official release: The .ME Registry and Visa have announced www.v.me as the online destination for V.me by Visa, Visa’s digital wallet and global acceptance mark. [...]
Co.uk Registry To Offer Multi-Year Registrations
Nominet, the registry operator for .uk, has announced that multi-year domain registration will be made available from 1 May 2012. The new registration periods will fall inline with other ccTLDs and gTLDs that offer the more flexible 1 – 10 year registration periods. The change, which will be welcomed by many, comes after consultation with [...]
CoCCA Ploughs Ahead With Policy Changes
CoCCA is implementing a number of significant policy changes effective 7th November. The changes, which were only announced today, will impact registrations in several cctlds, namely: .af .cx .gs .gy .ht .ki .ms .nf .sb You can read about the actual changes here, but basically they’re going to be sending lots of emails to registrants [...]
Norid (.no) To Permit Companies To Register More Domains
That a ccTLD registry would restrict companies in the number of domains they can register is peculiar in some respects, as no such limitation exists in gTLD space .. The .no (Norway) domain registry will be expanding the number of domains entities may register from 30 November 2011. The permitted number will be increased to [...]
Comments On CoCCA’s Proposals
CoCCA have published a set of proposals under the title of “Best Practice Recommendations for Minimising Harm ( and increasing trust ) in small ccTLDs”. While the spirit of the proposals is admirable I find the proposals themselves to be more than a little disturbing from both a registrant and registrar viewpoint. Since I’m not [...]
French Registry Celebrates 25 Years With Full Rebranding
AFNIC, the French registry which runs .fr, is celebrating their 25th anniversary in style – literally. The registry has unveiled a new web identity including a new logo as well as launching a series of events to celebrate their quarter century of existence. Here’s the new logo: And for .fr there’s this new look as [...]
Canadian Domain Registry Embraces Video
ccTLD registry managers have been “upping their game” quite a bit over the last couple of years. Whether this was inevitable or is due to the oncoming “threat” of new TLDs isn’t clear. In any case it’s a positive move. Some of the registries have embraced social media, unveiled slick websites and done some interesting [...]
.ly Registry Defaced
Kevin posted about this, but it’s worth reposting .. The .ly registry has been defaced. Whether they’ve got any deeper than the frontpage isn’t clear, but it just goes to show that any service hanging off the .ly cctld should be wary ..
4th International conference for ccTLD registries and registrars of CIS, Central and Eastern Europe Schedule Finalised
The final schedule for the 4th International conference for ccTLD registries and registrars of CIS, Central and Eastern Europe which is being held in Serbia in September has been published. The speakers for the event include ICANN staff, CENTR, Afilias, registrars, registries, ccTLD managers. It should be an interesting event judging by the lineup (Disclosure [...]
SIDN Launch 2011 Awards
SIDN, the .nl ccTLD registry, has launched the 2011 SIDN Internet Awards. The awards will be presented at the event in November under 5 different categories: Government and citizens in dialogue The power of the network A secure internet The internet and the environment Knowledge transfer in the digital world Full details and the [...]
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