The Mexican NIC has announced that they’ve broken the 250 thousand mark. In their latest newsletter, which is sent registrants and stakeholders, the Mexican domain registry speaks of how it took 15 years to get the first 100 thousand domains registered, but only 2 and a half years to get the next 100 thousand names.… Continue reading Mexico – Over 250 Thousand Domains Registered
Month: May 2008
Nominet Expanding Online Services To Include Registrant Transfers
Nominet has been working on developing and improving their “online services” over the past year. The “online services” are available to both registrants and registrars and allow both user types to manage various aspects of their interactions with the UK registry. Next month the registry plans to take the domain transfers / trades online. The… Continue reading Nominet Expanding Online Services To Include Registrant Transfers
WIPO Orders Cancellation of Multiple Domain Registrations
Image via Wikipedia I keep a close eye on the WIPO UDRP decisions, as sometimes they can be very interesting. In most cases decisions are either upheld or denied and when they are upheld the normal followup would be for the domain in question to be transferred to the IP holder. However WIPO’s latest set… Continue reading WIPO Orders Cancellation of Multiple Domain Registrations
Eurid Goes Offline For Upgrade
Image via Wikipedia Eurid is expanding its technical infrastructure this weekend. According to notifications sent to Eurid registrars they are expanding into a new data centre space. Unfortunately the knock-on effect is that the registry backend will not be available to registrars for up to six hours on Saturday.
Sedo Ups The Ante On Auction Bidders
Image by vaXzine via Flickr Sedo, which is one of the most popular domain markets, is running a number of “premium” domain auctions in the coming weeks. Some of the domains that are scheduled to come under the hammer include america.com, import.com and cognac.com. While cognac.com is unlikely to get the same level of interest… Continue reading Sedo Ups The Ante On Auction Bidders
Using Maths To Sort Out TLD Confusion
Stephane’s latest post talks about an attempt to use a mathematical algorithm to help decide on which TLDs to allow in the future. The algorithm, which you can read more about here, works on the basis of comparing “strings” to see if they are confusing. It draws in part on the Levenshtein distance It will… Continue reading Using Maths To Sort Out TLD Confusion
IE ccTLD Zone Reloads More Frequent
The IE Domain Registry has announced in the last few days that they are now doing rebuilds and reloads 7 days a week and that the frequency has been increased from twice a day to four times a day