Last night ICANN published a timeline for the new TLD process moving forward. They also revealed that there were currently 500 new TLD applications that had not been completed. Whether they will be completed by 2359 UTC tonight remains to be seen, but I doubt if they’ll all get done in less than 24 hours.… Continue reading ICANN Publish New TLD Timeline
Month: May 2012
Telnic Senior Staffer Departs
Looks like there’s more musical chairs going on. This time it’s chez Telnic where their registrar liaison has announced his departure at the end of this month. Adrian Snell has been with Telnic for the last four years and saw the company through its initial launch phase. Will we be getting some big announcement about… Continue reading Telnic Senior Staffer Departs
Pinky Brand Leaves Afilas / DotMobi
Domain industry veteran Pinkard Alan Brand, better known as “Pinky”, has left Afilias / DotMobi. Brand was with .mobi from before their launch and in recently had been focussing on the GoMobi product. With Pinky’s deep industry knowledge and experience I’d expect to see him being snapped up fairly quickly! Related articles DotPro Registry Migrating… Continue reading Pinky Brand Leaves Afilas / DotMobi
Host Europe Acquires Mesh Digital
Host Europe has acquired Mesh Digital, which includes the two registrar brands DomainMonster (retail) and Domainbox (wholesale). Financial details of the transaction were not disclosed. More info here
Irish Politicians Screw Up With XXX
An article in yesterday’s Sunday Times (Irish edition) by Harry Leech covers .xxx and Irish politicians and political parties. It’s obvious that they didn’t do anything about protecting their “brand” in XXX: Endakenny.xxx and finegael. xxx were both registered in December 2011, as were the addresses sinnfein.xxx and fiannafail.xxx Needless to say the domains were… Continue reading Irish Politicians Screw Up With XXX
Big News Chez GoDaddy
This evening has seen a couple of pretty big stories coming out of GoDaddy. First off GoDaddy CEO told reporters that the company was applying for 3 domain extensions (TLDs) including .godaddy (their .brand). He wouldn’t say what the other two strings were, but it’s safe to assume that they are more generic. The other… Continue reading Big News Chez GoDaddy
Bob Recstrum Speaks On New TLDs
So while Rod Beckstrom may not have been saying much about the TAS outage his parody alter-ego Bob Recstrum has been having fun (at his expense) Today, following the announcement of a date for TAS re-opening: #Newgtlds update: I am pleased to announce a new Reveal Day. On 30 June, I will reveal what… Continue reading Bob Recstrum Speaks On New TLDs
.Be Registry Offering Registrants Certificates
DNS.be, the organisation that runs the .be registry, recently upgraded their software backend to add some new features. While most upgrades usually only impact registrars, the latest update includes an interesting new feature for registrants – registration certificates. While this isn’t a completely novel idea (a number of other ccTLDs offer it) it’s a nice… Continue reading .Be Registry Offering Registrants Certificates
New TLD Application System To Come Back Online At End of Month?
ICANN’s latest update has set a date of May 22 for the re-opening of the application system. What that means in terms of the “big reveal” is unclear at this juncture, though some skeptics are positing that it won’t happen until the public meeting in Prague. I wonder if we can persuade Paddy Power to… Continue reading New TLD Application System To Come Back Online At End of Month?
A “Glitch” Does Not Last This Long
ICANN has been consistently referring to the issues with the new TLD application system as a “glitch”. That’s a serious misnomer. As a native English speaker I’d consider a “glitch” to be something small and inconsequential. When the software and systems that you are using to process millions of dollars of domain applications is forced… Continue reading A “Glitch” Does Not Last This Long