The .us ccTLD registry has a stakeholder council which holds a "town hall" annually. This year's meeting will be held on November 4th at 1200 Eastern. The town hall will cover updates on what's been going on with .us and their plans for the future. As it's a "town hall" format there's usually the option for people to ask question and interact with the panelists. The … [Read more...] about .US Town Hall 2021
EURid Wins Bid to Keep Registry Contract
EURid has won the tender bid to operate the .eu domain for a further 5 years until 2027. The official announcement was made by the Belgium based company on Monday, though they'd informally announced that they had the winning bid at the Web Awards last Friday night. "We feel honoured to have been chosen to continue to serve the .eu stakeholders," stated "EURid is an … [Read more...] about EURid Wins Bid to Keep Registry Contract
Spanish ccTLD on Track to hit 2 Million Registrations
The .es domain registry for Spain is on track to hit the two million domains registered mark. They'll probably break the two million mark this side of Christmas if my calculations are correct. In common with many other country code domain name operators, the .es registry offers multiple extensions though the data clearly shows that most people and businesses opt for .es, … [Read more...] about Spanish ccTLD on Track to hit 2 Million Registrations
Host.ie Novara.ie and Digihost Go AWOL
Earlier today one of Ireland's oldest hosting providers seems to have gone completely offline. The company in question is Host.ie, which is also known as Novara or Digihost. Over the better part of 20 years the provider has changed hands a couple of times, as well as its name. These days it's known as "Hostopia Ireland", after the company was acquired by American provider … [Read more...] about Host.ie Novara.ie and Digihost Go AWOL
Candidates for Nominet Elections Announced
This year's Nominet Board elections will be for two non-executive directors (NEDs). As usual the seats are open to anyone and they don't need to be a Nominet member to be elected, though only Nominet members get to vote. The full slate of nominees was announced earlier this afternoon. With 6 candidates running for 2 seats this will be one of the more hotly contested … [Read more...] about Candidates for Nominet Elections Announced
.Club Registry DNS Goes Down
The DNS for the entire .club domain extension is currently offline, or at least appears to be. While some DNS servers might be still serving old data from their cache the actual DNS servers for the domain are not working correctly. The .club registry are apparently aware of the issue, but no details of what it is nor when it will be resolved. All gTLD registry operators … [Read more...] about .Club Registry DNS Goes Down
Facebook, Instagram & WhatsApp Suffer Outage
Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp have all suffered an outage this afternoon. Facebook owns all three platforms, so it looks like there's an issue on Facebook's side. It's unclear at this juncture what is causing the outage, though previous outages impacting big platforms have usually been due to software updates gone wrong. However it is clear that it's impacting … [Read more...] about Facebook, Instagram & WhatsApp Suffer Outage
Tucows Enters Domain Registry Market
Tucows has entered the domain name registry business. Earlier today the Toronto based domain name registrar announced that it was acquiring Frank Schilling's UNR which was his backend registry business. The transaction announced today appears to be solely for the backend services and not any domain extensions. Schilling had previously sold off his registrar and … [Read more...] about Tucows Enters Domain Registry Market
CloudFest 2022 Will be “In Person”
CloudFest will be held "in person" next year. The organisers of CloudFest have announced that the hosting industry event will be held March 22 - 24 in Europa-Park in Germany. In common with most events its 2020 edition was cancelled due to the COVID pandemic. In 2021 the event organisers held several events online only. Registration for the event as well as hotel … [Read more...] about CloudFest 2022 Will be “In Person”
Epik Hack Exposes Data of Millions of Non-Customers
Domain name registrar and web hosting provider Epik has been hacked and a very large amount of data is now "in the wild". At this juncture it's unclear exactly how much data is involved, but indications would suggest that the breach was extensive and included not only customer details, but also credit card data. While any hack is serious and a data breach is always a … [Read more...] about Epik Hack Exposes Data of Millions of Non-Customers