Nominet, the registry for *.uk, has opened a public consultation on the re-introduction of .uk domain names ie. domains directly under .uk such as businessname.uk The proposals from the registry, however, sound like they’re heavily influenced by the law enforcement “asks” during the current RAA negotiations. They also ignore the recent Article 29 Working Party… Continue reading Nominet Sucking Up To Law Enforcement With New Proposals?
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IEDR To Offer More Frequent Zone Reloads
IEDR have announced that from Monday September 24th at 1am the .ie zone will be reloaded once every two hours. In other words, name server changes, modifications, registrations and other activity will be faster and move much closer to the model employed by gTLDs, such as .com and most ccTLDs such as .me, .co, .co.uk… Continue reading IEDR To Offer More Frequent Zone Reloads
EU Registry Reports Strong Growth And High Renewal Rates
Eurid, the registry for the .eu domain name, has released their quarterly results today. The registry’s performance over the last quarter has been strong with registration rates up 7.6% compared to the same period last year. Renewal rates are also doing very well, with a rate of 85% being reported. As in previous reports, the… Continue reading EU Registry Reports Strong Growth And High Renewal Rates
Kiwi.nz Registrations Opening September 11th
The .nz (New Zealand) domain registry has announced that provisional registrations under the new extension kiwi.nz will open from next Tuesday September 11th 2012. The new extension under .nz will not “go live” until 500 registration requests have been received. During the provisional registration phase, domain names: Can only be registered for a maximum… Continue reading Kiwi.nz Registrations Opening September 11th
Chilean Domain Registry Launch 1 Year Registrations
The Chilean domain name registry (.cl), which is celebrating its 25 years in existence has launched one year .cl domain name registrations. As of September 1st 2012 it is possible to register .cl domain names for either 2 years or 1 year. It’s not clear if the registry has any plans to extend registration periods… Continue reading Chilean Domain Registry Launch 1 Year Registrations
Icelandic Registry To Introduce “Very Important Domains”
The Icelandic registry (.is) plans on introducing extra levels of protection to some domains and their registrants. The new program is called “Very Important Domains” or VID for short (yes another acronym and you’ll have to excuse my childish snigger when I misread it as VDS) It’s not clear from the registry’s announcement how exactly… Continue reading Icelandic Registry To Introduce “Very Important Domains”
Honduran ccTLD Switching to CoCCA
The .hn (Honduras) country code top level domain is switching to CoCCA from Afilias in October. From October 1st all .hn domain names will be on the CoCCA platform.
.Post Is In The Root
Yesterday a “new” domain extension was added to the root nameservers. It’s not really “new”, as it was approved ages ago, but hadn’t been delegated. The .post TLD will be run for post offices and only post offices, so don’t expect to see too many domain names using it.. It’ll be interesting to see which… Continue reading .Post Is In The Root
Brazilian Registry: Another ccTLD Milestone
The domain registry for the Brazilian country code, .br, has passed the 3 million domain names mark. The milestone was reached at 22.52 GMT
SIDN Breaks 5 Million Domains Registered
SIDN, the .nl domain name registry, has broken the 5 million name barrier. CEO of the registry, Roelof Meijer, tweeted the milestone announcement this morning: mariongerritsen.nl is the 5,000,000th .nl domain! Registered through registrar.eu / Openprovider. Congratulations! — Roelof Meijer (@RoelofMeijer) July 30, 2012