While the launch of .africa has been delayed the launch of .capetown, .joburg and .durban is going ahead on schedule.Tomorrow, July 1st, will see the opening of the sunrise and landrush:They've also released a video to explain how the process will work:http://youtu.be/uLa5w59qIVk … [Read more...] about South African DotCities Sunrise Open Tomorrow
Archives for June 2014
Ed Vaizey’s Speech at #ICANN50
Ed Vaizey, the British minister for Culture, Communications and Creative Industries, spoke at the opening ceremony for the ICANN public meeting in London.Here's the video:http://youtu.be/AUyVeU9Tfb4The official text is here Related articlesBiggest Ever ICANN Meeting Convenes in London (technology.ie) … [Read more...] about Ed Vaizey’s Speech at #ICANN50
ICANN Hires CTO
In the run up to the ICANN meeting in London, the organisation announced yesterday that they were hiring a CTO.It may seem a little bit odd that ICANN didn't have a CTO, so filling that gap was long overdue.The new hire is an old hand in DNS industry circles - David Conrad: Conrad has more than 30 years of experience in the Internet industry, including 5 years with … [Read more...] about ICANN Hires CTO
DotPress Pioneer Program Launches
One of the other uncontested strings that Radix applied for is .press. Personally I think this could be quite an attractive extension, though I'm not sure how "big" it will be in terms of volumes. As a blogger and someone who is fascinated by the media I really think that a .press domain name could be used in some pretty interesting ways.Earlier today Radix announced … [Read more...] about DotPress Pioneer Program Launches
DotHost Launch Pioneer Program
Radix, who have applied for several domain extensions, announced today the launch of the .host pioneer program. The .host domain is pretty self-explanatory and is aimed at companies operating in the hosting sector. They've been doing quite a bit of targeted marketing over the last year with them exhibiting at industry events worldwide such as HostingCon and World Hosting … [Read more...] about DotHost Launch Pioneer Program
.Us ccTLD Adopting URS From July 1 2014
Neustar, who run the backend registry operations for .us and others, announced yesterday that the .us ccTLD will be adopting the URS from July 1st 2014.The URS is a shorter and cheaper method of lodging a domain name dispute than the UDRP. Of course it's .us, so the terminology is a little different. In .us land a UDRP is a usDRP and a URS is a usRS.Unlike with gTLDs … [Read more...] about .Us ccTLD Adopting URS From July 1 2014
Video: Jean-Francois Baril on EWG Final Report
Jean-Francois Baril was interviewed by Brad White earlier this week about the Expert Working Group on gTLD Directory Services's final report.The EWG, which was formed in early 2013 was tasked with reviewing the current whois system and to come up with an alternative. Jean-Francois explains what the report does, why it was done and also touches on some of the issues the … [Read more...] about Video: Jean-Francois Baril on EWG Final Report
Paul Vixie: The Openness of the Internet is Poisoning Us
Paul Vixie recently gave a presentation at a security conference in the Netherlands entitled "Defective by Design -- How the Internet's Openness is Slowly Poisoning Us "It's a provocative title for a talk and this interview he gave at the conference is well worth watching.Watch it and make up your own mind:http://youtu.be/J0YxPqdFtZ4 Related articlesISC … [Read more...] about Paul Vixie: The Openness of the Internet is Poisoning Us
Welcome to the .uk .. Unless You’re Not in the UK ..
The .uk launch today has been getting quite a bit of press coverage. Getting a big name celebrity like Stephen Fry to endorse the shorter namespace is also a nice win for Nominet.As part of the PR around the launch they've also put out a big welcome sign near Heathrow airport:http://youtu.be/_nRZjZO9gk4And they did register the domain and put up a minisite … [Read more...] about Welcome to the .uk .. Unless You’re Not in the UK ..
.Uk Launches Tomorrow
Domain name registrations directly under .uk launch tomorrow morning at 0800 London / Dublin time.Nominet, the .uk registry, have put in place a "grandfathering" system to decide who has the right to register a .uk domain name.Essentially if you have an existing .co.uk domain name registered before October 28th 2013 you get first dibs on the matching .uk domain. In fact … [Read more...] about .Uk Launches Tomorrow