Image by blacknight via FlickrIn what could best be described as a surprising move, ICANN CEO, Rod Beckstrom, tweeted his salary details (pdf) to the world yesterday afternoon.Beckstrom has been using Twitter (and Facebook) to share quite a bit of information related to the organisation's inner-workings. While this has been met with a positive reaction by many members of the … [Read more...] about ICANN Chief Tweets His Income
Colombian ccTLD Relaunch Now Underway
The relaunch of Colombia's ccTLD got underway within the last couple of hours and the new registry operator is already reporting several hundred domains registered. According to a "tweet" from their official account 322 domains were registered in the first few minutes.While the full launch of .co is still a few weeks away today's launch is probably a good "warm up" for the new … [Read more...] about Colombian ccTLD Relaunch Now Underway
DNGlobe Loses ICANN Accreditation
Image via WikipediaICANN has terminated DNGlobe LLC's ICANN accreditation effective February 22 2010.In a letter to DNGlobe ICANN outlined why the registrar's accreditation is being pulled. Apart from anything else they do not have a WHOIS server accessible on port 80 ie. via a browser. Their website is currently unreachable as well, which is not a good sign.They also owe ICANN … [Read more...] about DNGlobe Loses ICANN Accreditation
DomainPulse 2010
Domain Pulse, which is the biggest German speaking domain industry event of the year, kicks off in Lucerne, Switzerland on Monday.This year's event is hosted by Switch, the Swiss domain registry.The event's programme includes topics such as DNS SEC, registrar accreditation, legal issues and IDNs. … [Read more...] about DomainPulse 2010
Keep Track of Domain Industry Events
Like so many other industries, the domain industry has a plethora of events every year. Keeping track of all to them can be a chore, so a site worth bookmarking is Domain Name Calendar, which gives a fairly comprehensive listing of domain industry events. It's run by the same people who are behind Domain Name NewsNice work! … [Read more...] about Keep Track of Domain Industry Events
OpenSRS Celebrates 10 Years
It's sometimes easy to forget that the domain industry is a relatively new sector.Elliot Noss, CEO of Tucows, sent an open letter to all of OpenSRS' resellers yesterday celebrating their ten years in business:Hello,With great pride I note that January marks the 10th anniversary of the first domain name registered through OpenSRS.Back in the spring and summer of 1999, we started … [Read more...] about OpenSRS Celebrates 10 Years
GoDaddy Advert Deemed Offensive
Bob Parsons, the larger than life founder of GoDaddy, tweeted earlier this afternoon that the GoDaddy Ad for the Super Bowl had been rejected - again. CBS rejected the advert, which can be viewed online, as being "offensive to certain viewers".Of course the outcome of their decision will be even more PR for GoDaddy, but that was inevitable.But what is so offensive about the … [Read more...] about GoDaddy Advert Deemed Offensive
Registry Registrar Separation Now Probably Going To Be A Policy Debate
Again on the subject of new TLDs ....One of the "issues" that concerned a number of people is the concept of "vertical separation".The basic idea is that registries and registrars should be kept separate.While that is a wonderful Utopian ideal, the reality is that in the real world companies own other companies, people trade in stocks and shares etc., etc. So it's far from … [Read more...] about Registry Registrar Separation Now Probably Going To Be A Policy Debate
Big Brands Shooting Themselves In The Foot?
One of the topics that keeps coming up in ICANN policy discussions and as part of the new TLD application process is "transparency". ICANN, and the internet community in general, has had plenty of issues in the past with "bad actors" who have caused a lot of issues for everyone (think of many of the registrars who have lost accreditation in the last couple of years for … [Read more...] about Big Brands Shooting Themselves In The Foot?
Apple Launch iPad – But Where’s The Domain?
If you work in the domain industry it's only natural that you would put big brands' choices under the microscope to some degree.In the case of Apple they are a very big target.Earlier today Apple released, to much hype, their latest product offering. The iPad.You can read all about its features here, but where would you go to find out about the product itself and actually order … [Read more...] about Apple Launch iPad – But Where’s The Domain?