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… Continue reading McAfee Report Not Good For IE ccTLD
Category: registries
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.… Continue reading Mexico – Over 250 Thousand Domains Registered
Eurid Goes Offline For Upgrade
Image via Wikipedia Eurid 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.
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… Continue reading 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 days It 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.… Continue reading 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… Continue reading 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 received It’s not big surprise that more than one entity was interested in… Continue reading 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 confusion Over 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… Continue reading Should Registries Contact Registrants About Renewals?
Eurid Drops The Ball on EPP
Eurid’s EPP service has been offline or unstable for most of today. The explanation provided was that the maximum number of concurrent connections had been reached… So why did it take them most of the day to increase the number in the configuration? The mind boggles!
Eurid and the failure to promote dotEU
In some ways the failure of .eu to capture hearts and minds makes me sad. I’m European. I’d like to think that a European namespace could be a success, but that seems to be a misplaced desire. As I mentioned some time ago, the only way to grow a namespace or TLD is through usage.… Continue reading Eurid and the failure to promote dotEU