Nominet's annual registrar conference takes place this November 4th in London's Science Museum. If nothing else the UK registry operator is good at picking memorable locations for its events. Last year they chose Lord's cricket ground and gave all attendees a cricket ball... More information on the event here … [Read more...] about Nominet Registrar Conference To Be Held In Science Museum
Italian Registry Ignores Its Partners
The Italian domain name registry issued a press release about hitting the 2 million domain mark.What's interesting about the release is that there is zero mention of the domain name registrars.So does the Italian registry think that the domains registered themselves? … [Read more...] about Italian Registry Ignores Its Partners
Italian ccTLD Registry Tops 2 Million Name Mark
In the last hour or so the .it registry topped the 2 million names registered mark. They hit the 1.5 million name mark in March 2008. … [Read more...] about Italian ccTLD Registry Tops 2 Million Name Mark
IEDR Release Annual Report
The IEDR, the operator of the .ie ccTLD registry, have released their annual report for 2009.The document, which obviously cost quite a bit to design, covers various aspects of the organisation's activities and is not limited to the domain registrations. In common with quite a few ccTLD operators IEDR is also involved in ENUM, though there has been little or no takeup for the … [Read more...] about IEDR Release Annual Report
IEDR Celebrates 10 Years
The Irish domain name registry operator (IEDR) is celebrating 10 years.In recent weeks the number of registered .ie domain names exceeded the 150 thousand name mark. … [Read more...] about IEDR Celebrates 10 Years
Norid Trying To Scare Prospective Registrants of co.no domains?
Norid, the domain name registry for Norway (.no), has a page on their site about co.no which is worth reading.While most of it is "normal" ie. co.no is a domain and subdomains off it are being sold etc., etc., what is vaguely worrying is the last part of the page:The domain co.no is on a "prohibited/reserved"-list (Appendix A in the domain name policy). This means that while … [Read more...] about Norid Trying To Scare Prospective Registrants of co.no domains?
Belgian Registry Launch DNSSEC
The Belgian domain name registry, dns.be, has enabled DNSSEC starting today. DNSSEC uses cryptography to digitally sign DNS data to help avoid fraudulent attacks on users, such as cache poisoning and others. You can read more about the technology here … [Read more...] about Belgian Registry Launch DNSSEC
SE Registry Breaks One Million Name Mark
The Swedish domain name registry has announced that they have breached the one million domain name mark. Danny Aerts, CEO of the .se registry, is obviously delighted with the milestone: Achieving one million is confirmation that we have succeeded in making .se the obvious top domain choice in Sweden Full story on their site … [Read more...] about SE Registry Breaks One Million Name Mark
Russian ccTLD Breaks 3 Million Mark
The Russian ccTLD, .ru, has broken the 3 million mark in terms of domains registered. At time of writing there are over 3 million active domain registrations. While any milestone is impressive the fact that this comes after the Russian registry tightened controls on domain registrations renders this news particularly noteworthy. … [Read more...] about Russian ccTLD Breaks 3 Million Mark
ICANN 40 In San Francisco
ICANN's 40th meeting will be held in San Francisco from 13-18 March 2011. Expect more details including the venue and more to be made public in the coming days and weeks ... … [Read more...] about ICANN 40 In San Francisco