EURid, who run the .eu domain name registry, have been having issues over the last few days which are the result of a number of denial of service attacks. The registry’s services were degraded from the morning of Friday 24th April through until Monday. Services returned to normal, but unfortunately it looks like either the… Continue reading EURid Registry Platform Under Attack
Month: April 2020
CENTR Releases Global Domain Report
CENTR has published their report covering domain names globally for Q4 2019. The overall picture is positive, with a 3% growth year on year. Within Europe growth rates were also up compared to the previous year, though they’re still lower than the global growth rate (1.6% vs 3%). CENTR has also started tracking retail pricing… Continue reading CENTR Releases Global Domain Report
ICANN and the Risk of Lobbying
The sale of .org was made public back in November of last year. ISOC probably thought that selling off PIR and the .org domain registry would be relatively simple and I sincerely doubt they expect the backlash that the announcement triggered. There have been thousands of articles written about the proposed sale. If you made… Continue reading ICANN and the Risk of Lobbying
Amazon Registry is Hiring
Amazon Registry is hiring. The company has multiple top level domains including .bot .aws and others for a total of 52. While some of them are for internal use, others are distributed. The Seattle based company is currently advertising for software development engineers. They operate as a business unit within the giant that is Amazon:… Continue reading Amazon Registry is Hiring
ICANN’s Government Group Wants to Slow Whois Work
Since ICANN woke up to the very large conflicts between its policies and contracts and privacy law there have been some groups that have been pushing for ICANN to find a swift resolution. One of the more vocal among them was the Governmental Advisory Committee (GAC), which is made up of representative of governments from… Continue reading ICANN’s Government Group Wants to Slow Whois Work
ICANN 68 Goes Virtual
Under normal circumstances ICANN holds three public face to face meetings per year. This year, as we all know, is not a normal year and the circumstances are anything but normal. So I sincerely doubt anyone will be surprised that the next ICANN meeting will not be held “in person” but solely online. ICANN’s Board… Continue reading ICANN 68 Goes Virtual
RIPE 80 Goes Virtual and FREE
The upcoming RIPE meeting was originally meant to be held in Berlin. Obviously with the ongoing pandemic that cannot happen, so they’ve decided to switch to a virtual meeting instead. However the virtual meeting will be an abridged version of the meeting, with only a small number of key sessions being held. The meeting will… Continue reading RIPE 80 Goes Virtual and FREE
GoDaddy Enters the Registry Business
In what probably came as a surprise to many observers GoDaddy has announced that they are acquiring NeuStar’s registry business. The announcement comes quite soon after the web giant’s acquisition of Frank Schilling’s Uniregistry registrar and marketplace. Both Neustar and GoDaddy made announcements about the acquisition last night. So what exactly have they bought? Neustar… Continue reading GoDaddy Enters the Registry Business
Centralnic and its Companies Reshuffle Leadership
Centralnic, which is a publicly traded company, is arguably the fastest growing company in the DNS space these days. Sure, GoDaddy and some other companies in the space might be bigger, but Centralnic’s growth has been truly impressive. Yesterday they announced a number of changes to their management team. First off, in what might come… Continue reading Centralnic and its Companies Reshuffle Leadership