ICANN's Nominating Committee announced their appointees last night. The NomCom is charged with recruiting and selecting a portion of ICANN's leadership. The NomCom is mandated to ensure that overall, ICANN's leadership is diverse in geography, culture, skills, experience, and perspective. The basic criteria is that selectees are people of integrity, objectivity and sound … [Read more...] about ICANN NomCom Appointees Announced
Web.com To Acquire Network Solutions
This is pretty historic. Web.com have announced their acquisition of Network Solutions. Web.com previously acquired Register.com. Here's the full release: JACKSONVILLE, Fla. and HERNDON, Va., Aug. 3, 2011 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Web.com (Nasdaq:WWWW), a leading provider of internet services and online marketing solutions for small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs), and … [Read more...] about Web.com To Acquire Network Solutions
Registrar Stats Relaunchs With Paid Model
RegistrarStats, which is run by eNom / DemandMedia, re-opened yesterday. The site is no longer free (even though there's no indication of pricing on the site) with prices starting at $500 / month with a minimum commit of 3 months. Whether the reports being offered are any different or any better than those that were available previously is not clear. … [Read more...] about Registrar Stats Relaunchs With Paid Model
Tucows Acquires Epag
Tucows have announced the acquisition of German registrar Epag: EPAG, based in Bonn, Germany, is an ICANN-accredited registrar with over 400,000 domains under management and is notable for offering over 200 Top Level Domains (TLDs). Tucows plans to continue serving EPAG customers and resellers via existing EPAG tools and will also integrate EPAG’s domain services into its own … [Read more...] about Tucows Acquires Epag
Centralnic’s Gb.com In Dispute – gb.com now wildcarded
Centralnic's gb.com is no longer pointing to their nameservers and any domains in the zone are now being wildcarded to the main gb.com website which carries the following notice: You may be here because you have been sold a domain or email service using the gb.com domain that has ceased to work. You can restore that service swiftly by registering with GB.COM Ltd. GB.COM … [Read more...] about Centralnic’s Gb.com In Dispute – gb.com now wildcarded
MetaCert Content Labelling For XXX
The proverbial "cat" is finally out of the "bag". MetaCert have announced their partnership with ICM Registry for content labelling. Basically what it means is that every .xxx domain name will be classified by MetaCert who specialise in "labelling" content ie. giving consumers information about the type of content that a site provides. There's a pretty good article about … [Read more...] about MetaCert Content Labelling For XXX
ICANN Seeks Input On Issues Surrounding Domain Transfers
ICANN's domain name transfer policy, which is abbreviated to IRTP, is undergoing a series of reviews. To date two of those reviews have taken place. IRTP A is finished, while IRTP B's recommendations are currently being processed. The next review is, logically, "C" and the preliminary issues report is now available for public comment ie. feedback. This time round … [Read more...] about ICANN Seeks Input On Issues Surrounding Domain Transfers
Minds and Machines vs COCCA – Registry Software Still Open Source
COCCA, which runs the backend for over 30 ccTLDs, issued a clarification last week about its registry software. You can read it below, but the key takeaway is that: COCCA is 100% open source Minds and Machines has no control over COCCA Any developments made to COCCA were done without Minds and Machines Here's the statement: Public Notice, Clarification: … [Read more...] about Minds and Machines vs COCCA – Registry Software Still Open Source
Irish Domain Registry Reporting Growth
The .ie ccTLD has reported strong growth during the 2nd quarter of 2011: The IEDR’s quarterly registrations report shows that the total number of .ie domains now stands at over 165,000 with a total of 20,995 domains being registered in the period from January to June this year, a 10% increase on the 19,099 domains registered in the same period last year. These new … [Read more...] about Irish Domain Registry Reporting Growth
Nominet Research Team Finds DNS Bug
Simon McCalla has posted some details on the Nominet management blog about how their research team and in particular Roy Arends were instrumental in finding the latest bug in BIND. Disclosure: As a registrar I was informed about the bug before it was made public, but couldn't speak of it in public Related articles UK Registry Opens Consultation on Registration Periods … [Read more...] about Nominet Research Team Finds DNS Bug