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 [...]
New TLD Applications Are Now Being Accepted
Applications for newTLDs are now being accepted via the ICANN website here. Expect lots of coverage in the mainstream media about this in the next few days. You can also expect plenty of outrage from some quarters, upset from others and maybe a couple of legal battles for good measure. I posted a bit more [...]
CORE Wins Contract For .Sport Bid
CORE, which runs the backend for .cat and .museum, has been chosen by SportAccord, the International Sports Federation, to run the backend and administration for a .sport bid. In a press release issued earlier today Vincent Gaillard, Director General of SportAccord, spoke of the choice of CORE: “We are extremely happy to appoint CORE [...]
ICANN To Release Updated gTLD Applicant Guidebook
ICANN’s CEO, Rod Beckstrom, has confirmed that ICANN will be releasing an updated version of the gTLD Applicant Guidebook by January 12th. #ICANN- we are shooting to have an updated new gTLD Applicant Guidebook pubished by January 12, ’12 to reflect already approved changes — Rod Beckstrom (@RodBeckstrom) January 7, 2012 There has [...]
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.
Press Release: Blacknight Kicks Off The New Year With Big Domain Savings.
Shameless self-promotion type post below.. this pays the bills – sorry! FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Blacknight Kicks Off The New Year With Big Domain Savings. The largest registrar of .ie domains want to help you start the New Year with a huge January sale on hosting and domains. The New Year is the perfect time to [...]
XXX General Availability Starts Today
XXX will “go live” later this afternoon. How many domains will be registered by Christmas? Will they break the 1 million mark? Irish registrar Blacknight, which I founded and own, put out the following release earlier today, so this post is a self-promotion Blacknight Announce General Availability Launch of .XXX Irish registrar and hosting company [...]
Sedo CEO To Step Down
Sedo’s CEO Tim Schumacher has announced that he will be stepping aside. The announcement came this afternoon via his Twitter account: After 11 years, I will soon retire as CEO of Sedo and transition to the supervisory board. What a change for both me personally and Sedo So who will be taking the reins [...]
ICANN Communications Fiasco
If you’re a big international organisation you need to be good at communicating. ICANN, unfortunately, doesn’t have an exactly stellar track record in this area. One of the organisation’s biggest critics, Kieren McCarthy, was hired by the organisation to improve things, but he left a couple of years later (though he hasn’t left the organisation [...]
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. [...]
ARIN Trials WhoWas Service
ARIN is running a trial service that gives users access to historical IP whois data ie. it will tell you who was responsible for an IP address or block of IPs. The service is not automated and if you want to access it you will need to submit a request via email with information about [...]
Nominet Now Offers Registry Services
Well I guess it wasn’t really a secret that Nominet was going to be offering gTLD registry services.. However the new registry services site makes it very clear that they are “open for business” So far there have been rumours about Nominet’s involvement in a number of UK based applications including .london and a .wales, [...]
ICM Launch Buy.xxx
ICM Registry are getting a lot of attention in the media at present, though most of it probably isn’t that welcome. With both ICM and ICANN being named in a law suit tensions are probably running high.. However ICM are a business and they’re currently trying to make their launch as successful as possible. Enter [...]
Centralnic Now ICANN Accredited
Centralnic, the company that runs .uk.com and other extensions, is now an ICANN accredited registrar. They don’t appear to be listed on the IANA site yet or on the ICANN list of accredited registrars, however ICANN has informed registry operators of the accreditation, so expect their name to appear there soon. Related articles So Centralnic [...]
ICANN Seeking Feedback on Domain Transfers
As part of its ongoing review of domain transfers ICANN has opened a public comment period. You can read the full announcement here. This time round the focus is on: “change of control” ie. when a domain changes registrant / holder with OR without a change of registrar Timing out / expiring transfer authorisations. At [...]
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