BRS Media, which is the company behind the .am and .fm domain extensions, will be announcing later today that it will be applying for the new TLD “.radio” domain extension with ICANN. BRS’ George T Bundy is obviously excited by the move: “The future for Internet Radio is vibrant, with the largest growth in mobile… Continue reading BRS Media Makes a Play For dotRadio
Belgian Registry Hits 900k Mark
DNS.be has announced that the 900th thousandth .be domain has gone live. So how long before they break the magic million? Full release below: 900,000th .be domain name activated Today 16 April 2009, saw the 900,000th .be domain name registered with DNS BE. The 900,000th domain name is artchaud.be, owned by a Flemish artist creating… Continue reading Belgian Registry Hits 900k Mark
ccTLDs.com Victim Of Its Own Success Or Of Corner Cutting?
Popular domain forum ccTLDs.com is inaccessible this morning. Any attempt to reach the site is met with the default Apache 509 error: “The server is temporarily unable to service your request due to the site owner reaching his/her bandwidth limit. Please try again later. “ Now the forum may have been popular, but I honestly… Continue reading ccTLDs.com Victim Of Its Own Success Or Of Corner Cutting?
DotMobi CEO Shortlisted For Award
Trey Harvin, CEO of dotMobi, has been shortlisted for the Mobile Internet Innovation award in this year’s Irish Internet Association Net Visionary awards. DotMobi has been promoting their Instant Mobilizer service to website / domain owners to encourage them to make their websites “mobile friendly”. Public voting is currently open, so why not cast your… Continue reading DotMobi CEO Shortlisted For Award
New gTLD Comment Period Closes
ICANN has been holding a public comment period on the second draft of the new gTLD handbook. This period was due to close yesterday. Prior to yesterday afternoon there was a healthy number of comments, but in the past 24 hours a significant number of new comments have been submitted. The tone and content of… Continue reading New gTLD Comment Period Closes
Access .Tel Information Using Perl
If you’re a Perl coder then you may find a new Perl module of some interest to you. Net::Lookup::DotTel gives you access to looking up a variety of records (information) associated with a .tel domain name. Pretty cool!
Olympics Want Special Treatment From ICANN
Whenever I hear the misinformed harping on about how “anyone will be able to get their own TLD” I sigh deeply. If only it was that simple. The most recent assault on the new gTLDs comes from the Olympics – the International Olympic Committee to be precise. You can read the full text of their… Continue reading Olympics Want Special Treatment From ICANN
Rick Latona Adult Domain Auction Yields Mixed Results
Domain auctions can be fascinating to watch and predict – though they can be a little dangerous to get involved with. Last night Rick Latona held a live auction with an adult theme. Going under the hammer were a very wide range of not only domain names, but also services (hosting, video editing etc.,) for… Continue reading Rick Latona Adult Domain Auction Yields Mixed Results
Telnic Highlight Domains In Use
Image via CrunchBase Telnic, which recently launched .tel to general registration, has set up a “.tel of the week” The first domain they’ve chosen is removals.tel To have your .tel domain considered you should contact Telnic directly: community@telnic.org The registry operator reported that they had registered over 100,000 .tel domain names in the first 24… Continue reading Telnic Highlight Domains In Use
ICANN Sydney Hotel Rooms Going Fast
Either the ICANN meeting in Sydney is going to be very popular or the timing is bad, as the venue hotel has already sold out!