Month: December 2013

RIPE Opens Call For Hosts for RIPE 71

RIPE has opened a call for hosts for RIPE 71 which will be held between November 9 – 13 2015. As it’s a meeting for network operators the connectivity requirements are quite specific with the venue needing at least 300 megabits and ideally a Gig Full details here

Domain Pulse Release Schedule

Domain Pulse takes place every year in either Germany, Austria or Switzerland. The event is organised by and hosted by DENIC, nic.at and SWITCH. Next year’s event is being held on February 20th and 21st in Salzburg, Austria. The preliminary agenda has just been released and covers topics that should be of interest to anyone… Continue reading Domain Pulse Release Schedule

CENTR Publish Quarterly Report

CENTR have just published their quarterly statistical report. Naturally the report is focussed more on European ccTLDs, but it contains plenty of data on domains at a global level. You can grab the full report here

UPC’s Filters Continue To Block Pirate Bay

The Pirate Bay has been jumping from one domain extension to another over the last few weeks. According to an article over on Torrent Freak, the site has another 70 domains that it could switch to. Here’s what I get when I try to visit the site no matter which ccTLD it’s using: I’m not… Continue reading UPC’s Filters Continue To Block Pirate Bay

Pirate Bay’s Domain Hopping Fails

The Pirate Bay has been “hopping” from one domain extension to another over the last few months. At the moment the site is using a .gy domain name, which is Guyana The site had announced that it was switching to a .pe domain name (Peru), but the domain has already been suspended. The site had… Continue reading Pirate Bay’s Domain Hopping Fails

Efibre.ie Transferred to Eircom in Domain Dispute

Several months ago Eircom, one of Ireland’s largest ISPs,  launched a fibre broadband product under the moniker of “eFibre”. For some reason, however, they hadn’t registered the corresponding domain name. One of their competitors Magnet had and setup a very simple site:   I’m not sure how many people noticed, though I did see a… Continue reading Efibre.ie Transferred to Eircom in Domain Dispute

Nominet Delegates First Batch of Reserved .uk Domains

While Nominet won’t officially be launching “direct UK” until next year they’ve already started delegating some of the domains. Apparently 69 names were requested by the UK government and the first of these were delegated recently: Nominet has delegated the new second-level .uk domain names royal.uk, princeofwales.uk, supremecourt.uk and jcpc.uk to the Royal Household, the… Continue reading Nominet Delegates First Batch of Reserved .uk Domains

Pool Wins شبكة. Contract

Pool.com have won another contract to run the auctions for شبكة.(dot Shabaka). They made the official announcement earlier today. They’ve also been chosen by DNS Belgium as mentioned recently. Here’s the full release:   NEWEST OF NEW gTLDs NAMES POOL.COM AS AUCTION SERVICES PARTNER ‘شبكة.’ Accelerates to Market on Strength of Proven, Leading Platform Ottawa,… Continue reading Pool Wins شبكة. Contract

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