Neustar, which has the contract with the US government to run the .us ccTLD, has opened a public comment on the kids.us namespace. The usTLD Stakeholder Council, of which I am a member, has recommended that the current suspension of the kids.us namespace be maintained indefinitely. The rationale behind this is pretty simple. While the underlying… Continue reading Suspension of Kids.us Open To Comment
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USTLD Stakeholder Council Organise “Town Hall”
The .us ccTLD, which is run by Neustar under contract to the US government recently established a Stakeholder Council. The Council’s role is to help provide guidance and input to the registry on how to run the namespace. (Disclosure: I’m one of the members) As one of the council’s activities is to garner input from… Continue reading USTLD Stakeholder Council Organise “Town Hall”
Gene Kearon Joins .Irish
Domain industry veteran, Gene Kearon, has joined .irish. Kearon, who was most recently with Dominion Enterprises, announced last night that he was joining .irish. He will be helping promote the new TLD for the global Irish community at the upcoming ICANN meeting in Singapore. Kearon previously worked at Neustar where he was heavily involved in… Continue reading Gene Kearon Joins .Irish
Neustar Releases Visualisation On New gTLDs and DNS Collision
Neustar published a report yesterday which debunks ICANN’s study on DNS Collision. They’ve followed up with a visualisation: Related articles Neustar Analysis Shows ICANN Study Overstates Risk of Harmful Domain-Name Collision (circleid.com) .CLUB offers solution to name collision risks (domainincite.com)
Neustar Announce .Biz Price Increase
Neustar have announced an increase in the wholesale registration fee of .biz domain names. The price will rise from $7.85 to $8.63, an increase of $0.78. The new pricing will come into effect on September 1st 2013. Expect to see price increases coming to a registrar near you soon 🙂
Colombian ccTLD Relaunch Now Underway
The relaunch of Colombia’s ccTLD got underway within the last couple of hours and the new registry operator is already reporting several hundred domains registered. According to a “tweet” from their official account 322 domains were registered in the first few minutes. While the full launch of .co is still a few weeks away today’s… Continue reading Colombian ccTLD Relaunch Now Underway
Neustar and DotGreen
While the squabble over .eco might not have vanished, it’s not as “big” a news item this week.. So how about .green? Neustar announced earlier today that the organisation running the .green bid has chosen them to run their backend if their bid is successful. Neustar already runs the registry backend services for .tel, .biz… Continue reading Neustar and DotGreen
GoDaddy / Afilias Fail In Bid For .US
I mentioned some time ago that GoDaddy and Afilias had joined forces to bid on the .us tender. Adam Strong reports that the US Department of Commerce has decided to renew Neustar’s contract