Frank mentions that the Dutch registry (SIDN) has reached the 3 million names mark. … [Read more...] about Dutch Registry Reports 3 Million Names
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PIR Blog Now Live
The management team behind PIR (dotOrg) have a blog. Although there are only a couple of articles on there at present hopefully they'll be adding more content over the coming weeks and months. … [Read more...] about PIR Blog Now Live
McAfee Report Not Good For IE ccTLD
Anti-virus vendor McAfee have released their second report on Malware (pdf) which tracks incidences of malware on a TLD basis.The previous report, which received a lot of press coverage, was very favourable for several ccTLDs, including .ie (Ireland).This time round the Irish ccTLD may not be listed in the "dangerous" list, but the threat levels have practically doubled! This … [Read more...] about McAfee Report Not Good For IE ccTLD
Mexico – Over 250 Thousand Domains Registered
The Mexican NIC has announced that they've broken the 250 thousand mark.In their latest newsletter, which is sent registrants and stakeholders, the Mexican domain registry speaks of how it took 15 years to get the first 100 thousand domains registered, but only 2 and a half years to get the next 100 thousand names.More details on their site (in Spanish) … [Read more...] about Mexico – Over 250 Thousand Domains Registered
Eurid Goes Offline For Upgrade
Image via WikipediaEurid is expanding its technical infrastructure this weekend.According to notifications sent to Eurid registrars they are expanding into a new data centre space.Unfortunately the knock-on effect is that the registry backend will not be available to registrars for up to six hours on Saturday. … [Read more...] about Eurid Goes Offline For Upgrade
Fun and Games In the ccTLD World
There must be something in the air. I'm not sure exactly what it is, but there are a lot of things going on in the ccTLD world at the moment.In the UK Nominet's AGM is being held this week. This would normally provoke a yawn from most people - it's an AGM - how exciting can that be? This year's AGM looks like it could be quite entertaining, although it probably isn't going to … [Read more...] about Fun and Games In the ccTLD World
Nominet Issues Spoofing Warning
In common with many domain registries Nominet relies heavily on email for communication to registrars AND registrants.Unfortunately they seem to have been the target of some spoofing in recent daysIt sounds like they've been the victims of a "Joe Job", where a spammer basically "hijacks" a person or organisation's domain when sending mails.More information is available on the … [Read more...] about Nominet Issues Spoofing Warning
Scottish Nationalists Seek TLD
The Sunday Times carried a story this weekend that Scotland is seeking its own TLD.DotSco plans on presenting its case to ICANN later this year.There has been some heated discussion of the topic on one of the Nominet private members' lists, but whether this will translate into the kind of reasoned argument that could allow for the establishment of new TLD is another … [Read more...] about Scottish Nationalists Seek TLD
Dotasia Proves That Commerce Sells
The DotAsia launch is more or less over at this stage, so it's as good a time as any to examine which names people were most interested in acquiring.According to a recent post on Stephane Vangelder's blog over 500k applications were receivedIt's not big surprise that more than one entity was interested in acquiring sex.asia, but Stephane notes that buy.asia was in much higher … [Read more...] about Dotasia Proves That Commerce Sells
Should Registries Contact Registrants About Renewals?
I've always had mixed feelings about registries contacting registrants directly.On one level it doesn't bother me in the least, but on another I can see how it causes confusionOver the past couple of years we've been dealing with an ever-growing number of registries and seen a wide variety of policies and implementations, but the contact policy is one that always causes some … [Read more...] about Should Registries Contact Registrants About Renewals?