Nominet, the .uk domain name registry, has announced the appointment of Jill Finney as Chief Commercial Officer (CCO). From their announcement: The CCO role has been newly created as we aim to build on our strengths as an internationally-respected registry and respond to the challenges of a liberalised domain name market. As part of her [...]
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PIR’s New Year Message – .Org Price Increase Coming July
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 [...]
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”
Dotme Registry Reports Stellar Growth
The .me domain name registry is growing from strength to strength. Earlier today they issued a release in which they reported their latest growth figures. They’ve not only surpassed the 650k domain name mark, but they’re also the fastest growing ccTLD (country code top level domain) in Europe according to the latest CENTR report. The [...]
Chilean Registry Drops Registrant Update Fee
NIC Chile has updated their domain transfer policies. Changing the registrant / holder of a .cl domain name is no longer a billable action effective October 1 2012. Previously the change of registrant / holder, sometimes referred to as a “trade”, also prolonged the registration period by 2 years. This is no longer the case [...]
EU Registry Reports Strong Growth And High Renewal Rates
Eurid, the registry for the .eu domain name, has released their quarterly results today. The registry’s performance over the last quarter has been strong with registration rates up 7.6% compared to the same period last year. Renewal rates are also doing very well, with a rate of 85% being reported. As in previous reports, the [...]
Chilean Domain Registry Launch 1 Year Registrations
The Chilean domain name registry (.cl), which is celebrating its 25 years in existence has launched one year .cl domain name registrations. As of September 1st 2012 it is possible to register .cl domain names for either 2 years or 1 year. It’s not clear if the registry has any plans to extend registration periods [...]
.Nz Registry Enables DNSSEC
The .nz domain registry has announced that they have enabled DNSSEC in the New Zealand namespace: New Zealanders will be able to better secure their web presence from today, thanks to a major technical security deployment by InternetNZ subsidiaries .nz Registry Services (NZRS) and the Domain Name Commission (DNCL). Following more than two years of [...]
Brazilian Registry: Another ccTLD Milestone
The domain registry for the Brazilian country code, .br, has passed the 3 million domain names mark. The milestone was reached at 22.52 GMT
DotCo Celebrates 2 Years In Operation
CoInternet aka .co launched 2 years ago today. They’ve pushed out a nice infographic to highlight some of their achievements: Have you registered any .co domains?
IEDR Update WHOIS Output To Include Registration Date
IEDR have updated their whois output to include the domain name registration date. The whois output now includes both the registration and the expiry dates. See example: whois neylon.ie % Rights restricted by copyright; http://iedr.ie/index.php/mnudomregs/mnudnssearch/96 % Do not remove this notice domain: neylon.ie descr: Michele Neylon descr: Sole Trader descr: Personal Trading Name admin-c: AHN397-IEDR [...]
Co.no To Go Live July 4th
Co.no will be going live on July 4th 2012 ie. in two days time. The operator for co.no was involved in a court case with the Norwegian domain registry (Norid), but won. According to an email they sent to their partners this evening co.no domains will be activated at 10 am CET on July 4th. [...]
CIRA To Go Offline For 24 Hours
CIRA, the .ca registry, is taking their entire registry offline except for resolution services for 24 hours. While most domain registries conduct scheduled maintenance that would impact the SRS at some level and for several hours at a time I don’t think I’ve ever seen a relatively large domain registry plan a 24 hour outage [...]
Telesign Use New RAA Update To Spam Registrars
I wasn’t sure who was going to be happy about the new RAA docs that were published last night. I guess I now have the answer – Telesign. Telesign have been trying to get “in” with registrars over the last couple of years but their sales tactics are quite lacking. Today’s missive arrived in my [...]
RAA Negotiations Update – Is Anyone Going To Be Happy?
I cannot write impartially or objectively about the RAA (Registrar Accreditation Agreement – the contract between ICANN and its registrars). It would be disingenuous of me to even try to do so. I run a registrar so any changes to the RAA will have a direct and tangible impact on me, my staff and my [...]
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