Month: September 2012

Cloud Registry’s Calendar For ICANN Toronto Is Now Available

The guys in Cloud Registry have made available a “sane” iCal feed of the ICANN Toronto timetable You can grab it here They’ll try their best to keep it up to date, but it’s a free service to the ICANN community, so you get what you pay for 🙂 I’d recommend following them on Twitter… Continue reading Cloud Registry’s Calendar For ICANN Toronto Is Now Available

Article 29 Working Party Deem RAA Asks In Violation of EU Law

The Article 29 Working Party has written to ICANN to express their concerns about some of the “asks” being tabled by law enforcement in the RAA negotiations. They focus on two areas of contention: Annual re-verification of contact details Data retention In both instances they find that the “asks” are in violation of EU law.… Continue reading Article 29 Working Party Deem RAA Asks In Violation of EU Law

ICM To Launch Search.xxx This Week

ICM Registry, the company behind the .xxx top level domain, are getting into the search business. This Thursday they’ll launch search.xxx, which is going to allow you to “search .XXX” ie. developed sites that use the .xxx top level domain. If you use a .xxx domain name and want to find out about getting it… Continue reading ICM To Launch Search.xxx This Week

IEDR To Offer More Frequent Zone Reloads

IEDR have announced that from Monday September 24th at 1am the .ie zone will be reloaded once every two hours. In other words, name server changes, modifications, registrations and other activity will be faster and move much closer to the model employed by gTLDs, such as .com and most ccTLDs such as .me, .co, .co.uk… Continue reading IEDR To Offer More Frequent Zone Reloads

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… Continue reading EU Registry Reports Strong Growth And High Renewal Rates

Webfest Returns To Budva

This year’s Webfest is being held in Budva, Montenegro again. The now annual event is the largest of its type in the region and attracts participants from Montenegro as well as the neighboring countries. This year’s lineup includes Ryan Freitas (about.me), Ruth Burr (Seomoz), Heidi Harman (Geek girl meetup), Ivan Minić (burek.com) and many more.… Continue reading Webfest Returns To Budva

New ICANN Boss Rejigs Management

ICANN’s new CEO Fadi Chehadé started working full-time for ICANN yesterday. His first order of business? Rejigging the organisation’s management structures and bringing in new execs. It’s going to take time to fully understand the implications and the impact of the changes that were made in yesterday’s announcement, and you can probably expect to see… Continue reading New ICANN Boss Rejigs Management

IEDR To Go Offline Again This Evening

IEDR have informed registrars that they will be taking all registration services offline this evening from around 7pm until midnight. As with their unplanned outages in the last few days the .ie zone will continue to resolve as normal, but new registrations, modifications and whois lookups will be unavailable This will be the 3rd outage… Continue reading IEDR To Go Offline Again This Evening

Wired Think Verisign Competes With GoDaddy

Wired is one of the few publications that generally does a good job of reporting all things technical and internet related. However the magazine’s site last night ran an article reporting on the GoDaddy outage with the title: Amid Outage, GoDaddy Moves DNS to Competitor VeriSign On what planet do GoDaddy and Verisign compete? I… Continue reading Wired Think Verisign Competes With GoDaddy

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