SIDN, the ccTLD registry for .nl, has unveiled new branding for the .nl ccTLD. Up until now the branding available was focussed on either SIDN itself or its registrars. There was no real “.nl brand” per se. The registry explain their rationale in an email to registrars: In March 2016, we introduced our new corporate […]
CENTR, the body which represent of European domain registries, will be holding its annual awards again this year. What’s different for 2017 however is that they’ve added a new category: Registry of the Year And unlike with the other award categories, this one is open for voting to the registrar channel. The question registrars are […]
The 5th annual Africa DNS Forum is being held in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania on July 26 – 28. The event, which is being organised by AfTLD, ICANN and ISOC in association with a number of other organisations, will run over two days and cover both technical and business aspects of the domain name industry. […]
RIPE has introduced a code of conduct for its mailing lists. In common with many technical organisations and communities a lot of the work within the RIPE community is conducted via mailing lists. The organisation already had a code of conduct for its face to face meetings, but it didn’t cover interactions on the mailing […]
This year’s IGF (Internet Governance Forum) meeting is being held in Geneva, Switzerland from December 18th to 21st. The venue for the event will be the United Nations Office at Geneva Palais des Nations, Avenue de la Paix 14, CH-1211 Geneva 10, Switzerland. As the Swiss government is the host for the event it’s no big […]
Brands and Domains is a domain event that focuses on brand owners and how they are using or potentially could use top level domains. And in this context when we say “top level domain” what we mean is the likes of Sony running the .sony TLD. The event is scheduled to be held in The […]
The full schedule for ICANN 59, the policy forum, which is being held at the Sandton Convention Centre in Johannesburg from June 26 – 29 has been published. As this is a “policy forum” there are fewer frills ie. no big opening ceremony, gala or board meeting. As they’ve been doing for the last few […]
ICANN 59 will be held in Johannesburg, South Africa later this month. In ICANN terms it’s what they call a “policy forum”, so the focus will be on policy work and the meeting won’t have as many of the frills you find at the bigger meetings. For those of us in Europe the timezone difference […]
The M & A activity in the hosting and domain markets continues. Earlier today it was announced that The Hut Group has acquired UK2. The Hut Group isn’t in the hosting or domain name space directly, but as a global e-commerce company would be a big consumer of infrastructure to support its brands, which include […]
The .eu ccTLD is quite different in that it is run by the European Commission. The Commission contracts EURid to run the registry on their behalf. As the entire thing is setup and managed by the European Union institutions the ccTLD’s policies are based on European treaties and laws. Complicated? Yes, but it’s still fully […]
