If you’ve been following the newTLD process within ICANN over the last year or so you will have probably been aware of how slow and tortuous development has been. To recap, ICANN, which oversees domain names globally, announced that it was “opening up” the internet so that “anyone” could get the domain extension they wanted.… Continue reading Berlin The Latest New TLD Battleground?
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AFNIC / CORE To Run .Paris
The Mayor of Paris was very upbeat about the new TLD project when he spoke during the ICANN meeting in Paris. Not surprisingly Paris is one of the European cities that is pushing hard to get its own tld .paris. According to news released earlier today the .paris bid is going to be using a… Continue reading AFNIC / CORE To Run .Paris
Food Fight Anyone?
Image via Wikipedia Ah the joy of it all. First we had the quite public squabbling over .eco that I mentioned recently, now it looks like we’re going to have a full on “food fight”. If nothing else the new TLD process is going to be great fun for anyone who likes a bit of… Continue reading Food Fight Anyone?
Making Sense of New Domain Extensions
Blacknight, which I founded, has launched a new site to help end users get to grips with the “new domains” ie. the new TLD project. If anyone has any feedback or would like to assist please let us know:marketing [at] blacknight.com
Nominet Introduces Phishing Lock and Other New Features
Nominet maybe attracting some undue attention due to behind the scenes squabbles, governance reviews and proposed policy changes, but the registry is also developing new features and services. Today they announced a number of things that are worthy of attention. The biggest one in many respects is the introduction of a new domain locking mechanism… Continue reading Nominet Introduces Phishing Lock and Other New Features
BRS Media Makes a Play For dotRadio
BRS Media, which is the company behind the .am and .fm domain extensions, will be announcing later today that it will be applying for the new TLD “.radio” domain extension with ICANN. BRS’ George T Bundy is obviously excited by the move: “The future for Internet Radio is vibrant, with the largest growth in mobile… Continue reading BRS Media Makes a Play For dotRadio
New gTLD Update – Scottish Users Prefer .scot
Image by Scottish Government via Flickr The campaign for a TLD for Scotland announced a small change of tack earlier today on their facebook presence. While previously the campaign had been focussed on setting up the .sco tld for Scottish culture etc., they are now pressing ahead with .scot instead. Davie Hutchinson, one of the… Continue reading New gTLD Update – Scottish Users Prefer .scot
Enum UK Goes Live
Nominet have announced that ENUM is now live. Full details on the Nominet site
Telnic Whois Service Now Available
As the Telnic (.tel) “go live” progresses, the registry operator has finally launched their WHOIS service. It’s available from the command line or via the web based whois What makes the .tel whois slightly different is the little addition at the end of the output: Contact information: Disclosure of contact data is restricted becauseof UK… Continue reading Telnic Whois Service Now Available
Eurid To Keep .EU?
Image via Wikipedia According to a news alert I received last night, Eurid’s contract to manage the .eu namespace has been renewed for a further 5 years. The news, which appears to have either been broken or leaked at the Eurid registrar dinner last night in Mexico city appeared on a French domain news site,… Continue reading Eurid To Keep .EU?