With the COVID-19 pandemic an ongoing crisis across the globe many businesses are currently closed. Some of them may never open again. While some governments are offering packages of financial assistance the current situation is going to hit many sectors really hard. Against the backdrop of the current pandemic companies in the internet infrastructure have become even more … [Read more...] about COVID 19: What Registrars and Registries are Doing to Help
Kelly Hardy Joins CentralNic as Policy Chief
Domain industry veteran Kelly Hardy is now Head of Policy for Centralnic's Registry Services division. The announcement was made at the end of last week and it sounds like she'll be covering both ICANN's GNSO, the ccNSO as well as several other Internet governance fora: Kelly will head up CentralNic's Policy Consultancy, helping both ccTLD and gTLD registry partners with … [Read more...] about Kelly Hardy Joins CentralNic as Policy Chief
Nominet Election Nominations Open
The nomination period for the election to Nominet's Board has opened. This year the election is for one non-executive director (NED). While only Nominet members can nominate people or vote in the election Board members do not need to be members of Nominet. The AGM is scheduled to be held in London on September 22nd. Full details of the process is included in the … [Read more...] about Nominet Election Nominations Open
Club Registry Celebrates 6 Years
The team at .club are celebrating 6 years in operation. It's one of the new TLD domain extensions that many agree is a success. They've released a graphic that highlights some of their milestones over the last 6 years of operation: The headline numbers are pretty impresssive: over 1.3 million domains registeredover 300 thousand active websites157 registrarsover $8 … [Read more...] about Club Registry Celebrates 6 Years
RIPE Board Election Remember to Vote!
While the RIPE meeting like so many other events was forced to go virtual, there will be an election next week for a number of positions on the RIPE Executive Board. Voting is open to RIPE members. Full details of the General Meeting are here. Next week's GM includes an election to fill three seats and there are currently 12 candidates running. You can read their bios … [Read more...] about RIPE Board Election Remember to Vote!
EURid Q1 Results Show Growth
EURid, who operate the .eu ccTLD domain registry, have released their Q1 2020 report. The report covers the period up until the end of March 2020 (obviously), so it does not show the full impact of COVID-19 on domain registrations or renewals. The report for Q2 should make for interesting reading! So what does the report show for Q1? Registrations are up 15% compared … [Read more...] about EURid Q1 Results Show Growth
NamesCon Europe Cancelled
NamesCon Europe has joined the ever growing list of events that have been cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The event was scheduled to be held in Budapest in August. The organisers are now planning to hold the event there in July 2021 instead, with the dates currently announced as July 15th - July 17th. In the interim the NamesCon team are exploring options … [Read more...] about NamesCon Europe Cancelled
EURid Registry Platform Under Attack
EURid, who run the .eu domain name registry, have been having issues over the last few days which are the result of a number of denial of service attacks. The registry's services were degraded from the morning of Friday 24th April through until Monday. Services returned to normal, but unfortunately it looks like either the attackers have started up again or there is a … [Read more...] about EURid Registry Platform Under Attack
CENTR Releases Global Domain Report
CENTR has published their report covering domain names globally for Q4 2019. The overall picture is positive, with a 3% growth year on year. Within Europe growth rates were also up compared to the previous year, though they're still lower than the global growth rate (1.6% vs 3%). CENTR has also started tracking retail pricing of domain names, as well as special offers … [Read more...] about CENTR Releases Global Domain Report
ICANN and the Risk of Lobbying
The sale of .org was made public back in November of last year. ISOC probably thought that selling off PIR and the .org domain registry would be relatively simple and I sincerely doubt they expect the backlash that the announcement triggered. There have been thousands of articles written about the proposed sale. If you made the mistake of setting up an alert for mentions of … [Read more...] about ICANN and the Risk of Lobbying
Amazon Registry is Hiring
Amazon Registry is hiring. The company has multiple top level domains including .bot .aws and others for a total of 52. While some of them are for internal use, others are distributed. The Seattle based company is currently advertising for software development engineers. They operate as a business unit within the giant that is Amazon: We are a small, fast-paced … [Read more...] about Amazon Registry is Hiring