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Centralnic Pushing .LA

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Centralnic have just announced that .la domains are available to their resellers / registrars: As you may know, earlier this year CentralNic became the registry provider for .LA. We are pleased to be able to inform you that we are now able to offer .LA to all accredited CentralNic resellers. .la is the ccTLD for Lao People's Democratic Republic, but it can also be marketed … [Read more...] about Centralnic Pushing .LA

Mobi Ready Tools Upgraded

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.mobi is aimed at mobile devices and all domains are meant to serve mobile ready content. While that may sound like a nice idea, or possibly a bit crazy, the people running the registry, which is based in Dublin, Ireland, take it very seriously. Of course they know that it's not going to be that easy for everyone to build sites that work on mobile devices, so they have … [Read more...] about Mobi Ready Tools Upgraded

EU Domain Scam – Eurid Pulls Registration

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Francesco, who works for Ascio, posted to the Eurid registrars' list yesterday about a domain scam (in German). The scam is strikingly similar to so many of those that we have seen for .com, .ie and .co.uk over the last few years. The text of the mail is below: Sehr geehrte Damen und Herren Sie haben diese E-Mail erhalten, weil Sie der registrierte Inhaber von … [Read more...] about EU Domain Scam – Eurid Pulls Registration

EU NameSpace is Dead?

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The EU sunrise and landrush has probably been discussed to death, but what is the landscape like over a year later? A lot of industry insiders were right to express their doubts about the stability of EU following on from the high profile squats, that have been discussed here at length. Of course any discussion on a new TLD would have to wait until after the first wave of … [Read more...] about EU NameSpace is Dead?

Kieren McCarthy on Sex.com, ICANN and the domain industry

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Kieren McCarthy was interviewed by Monte Cahn on Webmasterradio a couple of weeks ago. It's well worth listening to (mp3) Kieren talks about his book on the sex.com battle, his role in ICANN and gives some very interesting insights into the domain industry. You may not agree with everything he says, but you can't deny that it's a fascinating interview. … [Read more...] about Kieren McCarthy on Sex.com, ICANN and the domain industry

ICANN San Juan – New gTLD Frustration

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The ICANN meeting in San Juan drew to a close yesterday. As can be expected ICANN released a number of press releases and statements and these are now being scrutinised by the domain industry. Bret Fausett, for example, is not overly impressed with Paul Twomey's statement on new gTLDs: ICANN's President Paul Twomey has declared that ICANN's new gTLD policy is "on … [Read more...] about ICANN San Juan – New gTLD Frustration

ICANN Dropping Fees?

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According to a post on Jay Westerdal's blog ICANN are to drop their fees per domain later this year. The announced reduction will be from 22 cents (US) to 20 cents (US) per domain. Unfortunately, as mentioned previously, the registries will be upping their prices later this year, so while ICANN maybe cutting the cost on one side someone else is increasing it on another NB: … [Read more...] about ICANN Dropping Fees?

ICANN Focus On Registrants

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In the aftermath of the RegisterFly fiasco there has been a lot of discussion of how best to protect registrants should a registrar fail. When the .travel registry had financial issues the issue of registry failure made it onto the agenda. The ICANN meeting in San Juan this week is not without discussions of these and other topics, which were topics in a workshop held there … [Read more...] about ICANN Focus On Registrants