As regulars here probably know I run an Irish hosting and domain registration company. We released a bit of software that might be of interest to Nominet registrars earlier this evening. NB: If you aren’t a Nominet registrar it won’t be of any interest / use to you
Category: registrars
Secondary Market Frowned Upon by IE ccTLD
Whenever I meet up with colleagues in the domain industry from outside Ireland they are always amazed at the size of the IE namespace. While it’s not the smallest ccTLD in the world, it is one of the smallest in Europe, especially when compared to its neighbours. Of course one of the many reasons for… Continue reading Secondary Market Frowned Upon by IE ccTLD
ICANN Investigating Domain Tasting
ICANN has announced that it is seeking input and feedback on the topic of domain tasting. (See their announcement for full details) Interestingly enough Michael Gilmour published an article a couple of days ago covering the same topic – “Why domain tasting is great!“, which will probably raise a few hackles! One point that in… Continue reading ICANN Investigating Domain Tasting
RegisterFly – Coming Back To An Inbox Near You
Just when I thought I’d heard the end of Registerfly ….. It looks like a mailserver in RegisterFly was rebooted last night / this morning, as I’m being flooded with mails that I should have received towards the end of last year. It’s kind of amusing when I think of the headaches that they caused… Continue reading RegisterFly – Coming Back To An Inbox Near You
Bringing a tld to life
One of the key elements in any domain space is usage. It doesn’t matter how potentially “cool” or “interesting” a TLD is if nobody is actually using it to provide content. It may be overused and totally abused, but “content is king”! The guys in dotmobi posted yesterday about some of the more interesting domains… Continue reading Bringing a tld to life
Afilias and GoDaddy Trying for .us
In an interesting move Afilias has joined forces with GoDaddy in a bid to manage the .us ccTLD. Frank has the full story
Tucows Acquires ItsYourDomain
According to an announcement on the Tucows blog by their CEO Elliot Noss, Tucows has finalised the acquisition of ItsYourDomain. IYD use an affiliate business model as opposed to the reseller model employed by many ICANN accredited registrars. The acquisition will cost Tucows US$10.35 million upfront.
ICANN Accreditation Under Review
It was inevitable that ICANN would want to review the Registrar Accreditation Agreement following on the collapse of RegisterFly. At both the Lisbon and San Juan ICANN meetings the registrar agreement was a hot topic. So what is going on exactly? Paul Twomey’s announcement yesterday covers most of the salient points: The need for this… Continue reading ICANN Accreditation Under Review
Registrars Resorting To Comment Spam? TodayNic Using Dodgy Marketing
The competition between the various ICANN accredited registrars has been tough for quite some time. All you need to do is look at the pricing being offered by some of the companies, along with the various other enticements they use to attract new registrants and resellers, to get an idea of how tough the market… Continue reading Registrars Resorting To Comment Spam? TodayNic Using Dodgy Marketing
Privacy – US vs EU Perspectives
A few days ago I posted about the state of the EU. This was prompted in part by the first part of John’s excellent study into the .eu namespace and activity therein and partially by Eurid’s latest promotional campaign. My post here may have gone unnoticed, but shortly after it appeared on CircleID Jay Westerdal… Continue reading Privacy – US vs EU Perspectives