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Tucows Takes Over Parava’s Domains

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Tucows is taking over the 33 thousand odd domains that were under the accreditation of Parava.The full announcement of the transfer on the ICANN site includes contact details and more. Unfortunately the deaccredited registrar did not transfer billing data, so registrants will need to contact Tucows (under their Hover.com brand) to renew their domains.More information on the … [Read more...] about Tucows Takes Over Parava’s Domains

IE Domain Registry Announces Record Growth

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The IEDR, which is the current registry operator for dotIE (.ie), announced today that its quarter 1 registration figures were the highest to date. Close to 10 thousand IE domains were registered in the period up to the end of March 2009, which is a 28% increase over Q4 2008. Though the press release doesn't mention that Q4 is shorter due to the Christmas break, which leads to … [Read more...] about IE Domain Registry Announces Record Growth

Nominet Introduces Phishing Lock and Other New Features

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Nominet maybe attracting some undue attention due to behind the scenes squabbles, governance reviews and proposed policy changes, but the registry is also developing new features and services.Today they announced a number of things that are worthy of attention.The biggest one in many respects is the introduction of a new domain locking mechanism - "phishing lock".This new … [Read more...] about Nominet Introduces Phishing Lock and Other New Features

New TLDs Need Sanity

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The much vaunted launch of the new TLDs as announced at the ICANN Paris meeting last year is probably a bit of a damp squid in many respects.Don't expect to see any actual progress there until next year at the earliest.In the meantime you can read all about the plans people have for launching their "solutions".The problem with some of the proposed "solutions" is simply that … [Read more...] about New TLDs Need Sanity

Some Domain Dispute Figures (Just for fun!)

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Trawling through domain dispute data can be vaguely amusing, if you're a bit bored on a Saturday... By TLD in no particular order: .ie - total of 25 cases, 4 so far this year of which 3 are ongoing (greenoffice.ie, todayfm.ie, monsterfinance.ie) .es - 145 .fr 180 .tel - none to date .mobi - 189 to date .asia - 8 to date .pro - 8 to date .name - 38 so far .museum - … [Read more...] about Some Domain Dispute Figures (Just for fun!)

Dotmobi Release WordPress Mobile Pack

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One of the things that I love about the guys at dotMobi is their tireless work to promote the mobile internet.Their latest move is the release of the Wordpress Mobile Pack which is probably the most comprehensive suite of tools to render a CMS powered site "mobile ready" (put another way, it makes mobifying your site dead easy).So what is included?Looking at the release notes … [Read more...] about Dotmobi Release WordPress Mobile Pack

MarkMonitor Makes Wild Claims NZ Registry Provides Calm Response

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A recent post on MarkMonitor's corporate blog, which was also published on Circleid, dealt with the recent issues affecting several prominent .nz domains. Markmonitor, who describe themselves as: "the global leader in enterprise brand protection." are obviously going to have a particular viewpoint when it comes to domains and how they "should" work. In their post MarkMonitor … [Read more...] about MarkMonitor Makes Wild Claims NZ Registry Provides Calm Response