Brands and Domains is a domain event that focuses on brand owners and how they are using or potentially could use top level domains. And in this context when we say “top level domain” what we mean is the likes of Sony running the .sony TLD. The event is scheduled to be held in The […]
The US Republican party (GOP) , which currently dominates both houses, as well as controlling the White House, has a rather “different” 404 page. (They also have their own TLD .gop) A 404 page is one that a web server, such as Apache or IIS, displays when you click on a link to a non-existent page […]
ICANN and a couple of other organisations are taking advantage of venue chosen for the 2017 GDD Summit. ICANN will be holding a “DNS Symposium” in the Hotel NH Collection Madrid Eurobuilding in Madrid on Saturday 13th May. It’s the first time that ICANN organises this type of event. The focus of the event will be […]
Fora, which is run by the same people as “The Journal“, published a piece over the weekend on Irish companies and domains. It’s not often that the Irish media, either online or offline, covers domains, so it’s worth a quick read. The piece talks about how the guy behind IT.ie paid over €10k to acquire the domain […]
Donald Trump is apparently planning to launch a television network, but he does NOT have trump.tv. He also doesn’t have trump.org. Visit either and you’ll get this message: This site is not owned by nor affiliated with Donald Trump or any of the trademark holder(s) of the Trump name. Vote NO to Trump He wasn’t […]
For the last couple of years the “Nordic Domain Days” have been held as part of a larger event, The Swedish Internet Days (Internetdagarna) which covers a very broad range of internet related topics. The next Nordic Domains Days, however, will be a standalone event. When? 17th and 18th January 2017 Where? Wanha Satama, Helsinki, […]
Joss Whedon has made it clear more than once that he has little time for Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump. He’s not alone and to underline this Whedon has gathered together a really impressive array of stars in a clever and witty PSA that encourages people to vote – but not for Trump. The video […]
Big companies hold huge portfolios of domain names. We aren’t talking about a few hundred domain names, but in many cases literally thousands of domain names. While most of the big companies rely on specialised domain registrars to look after their domain registrations, they often have internal staff who deal with the day to day […]
Web Summit founder Paddy Cosgrave announced via Facebook and Twitter that the company had acquired websummit.com for an undisclosed sum. Apparently they’d been negotiating the acquisition for the last 5 years. The domain has been registered since November 2001, which is long before Web Summit’s first event was held in Dublin. The domain had switched […]
Got a wireless router or modem? If it’s made by TP-Link you might run into an “interesting” issue. The company was using the domain tplinklogin.net for their configuration portal for users. Unfortunately for them and their users, they forgot to renew the domain name. Why they chose an external domain name instead of an IP address […]
