The 2019 edition of Domain Pulse will be held in Bern, Switzerland. Switch, the .ch ccTLD manager, will be the hosts for the 2019 event which is being held on February 18th and 19th in the Town Hall in Bern. Registration for the event is free and should open in the next few weeks. At […]
The New Zealand Domain Name Commission is taking legal action in Seattle against DomainTools. DomainTools, according to the filing, is in breach of the whois terms of use and by collecting and storing the whois data of .nz domains. The filing goes into a lot of detail about how the New Zealand country code […]
After the Brexit vote I posited that there could be an impact on EU registrants based in the UK. Over the past year the UK government has been engaged in negotiations with the EU to navigate the application of Article 50 and the UK’s exit from the European Union. While there has been a lot […]
The Latvian city of Riga will play host to the first edition of “Baltic Domain Days” next month. The event will run over two days and is being organised in association with the .lv ccTLD registry, ICANN and the .ee and .lt domain registries. Registration for the event is 100% free, but is obligatory. The […]
The .ie ccTLD has changed its registration policies effective yesterday March 21st 2018. From yesterday registrants will only need to provide a “connection” to Ireland and, depending on whether they’re a business or an individual, proof of identity. They’ve also added a more streamlined registration process for existing registrants, as they’ll already have been “validated” […]
The .ie ccTLD, which is the country code domain name for Ireland has long had very restrictive policies governing registration. Even if you were Irish or had a business based in Ireland registering a domain name in the local country code extension wasn’t straightforward – at least not compared to the ease with which you […]
Last year the .ie ccTLD opened a consultation process around “liberalisation”. As anyone who has tried to register a .ie domain name would know, compared to registering a .com or .eu the amount of paperwork and general bureaucracy associated with a .ie domain name has always been excessive. The consultation showed that there was strong […]
The IEDR has opened a consultation on removing DNS checks during registrations, transfers and other operations. At the moment when a .ie domain name registration is requested the IEDR will check if it passes the policy requirements and then does a technical check. If it fails the technical check the registration can fail. The same […]
DNS Belgium, who run .be as well as .brussels and .vlaanderen, have been running a “Registrar Forum” for the last few years. The forum has 15 members drawn from DNS Belgium’s management and the registrars. Due to one of the member’s terms expiring there is now an opening on the forum. If you’re a .be […]
The 3rd CENTR awards were held last night in Brussels’ Bibliothèque Solvay. Each of the finalists had a short video to explain what their project was about. The winners were: Marketing Campaign Excellence Category: .CA Product Marketing team for its brand awareness and lead generation campaign (CIRA) Safe and Sound DNS Category: Barbara Povše (Registry.si) & […]
