The ICANN meeting in New Delhi, India, came to a close yesterday.According to the official press release 720 people were in attendance from 76 countries, including 290 from India.Full details on the ICANN site … [Read more...] about ICANN New Delhi Draws To A Close
Network Solutions Don’t Eat Their Own Dog Food
Bret has done it again.His blog posts may not be the longest, but boy are they incisive!In one of his most recent posts he mentions a marketing mail he got from Network Solutions promoting business blogging. Nothing amazing there. But Network Solutions don't seem to have a blog, or if they do it's well hidden!Simple test - try and find a blog on the Network Solutions site. I … [Read more...] about Network Solutions Don’t Eat Their Own Dog Food
Champagne.ie UDRP Decision
The former registrant of the domain champagne.ie probably doesn't feel like celebrating, as he lost the UDRP against him.You can read the entire decision here on the WIPO site."Champagne" and related terms have been the subject of domain disputes in several constituencies over the last few years, with the champagne.co.uk decision still being appealed.The decision is worth … [Read more...] about Champagne.ie UDRP Decision
ICANN Meeting in New Delhi Opens
The 31st international ICANN meeting opened in New Delhi, India earlier this morning.There are quite a few "hot" topics that need to be discussed over the coming days, but whether any actual resolutions / decisions will be made is far from clear. … [Read more...] about ICANN Meeting in New Delhi Opens
Eurid Drops The Ball on EPP
Eurid's EPP service has been offline or unstable for most of today.The explanation provided was that the maximum number of concurrent connections had been reached... So why did it take them most of the day to increase the number in the configuration? The mind boggles! … [Read more...] about Eurid Drops The Ball on EPP
Nominet EPP Live
Nominet has put its EPP service live as of this morning.Best of luck to them! … [Read more...] about Nominet EPP Live
IEDR Engages With Reseller / Registrar Community
While a lot of registries have been engaging actively in dialogue with registrars and resellers the IE Domain Registry has been avoiding it for the last few years.This finally changed with the launch of a private discussion forum for accredited IEDR resellers in the last few days.To date the activity on the forum hasn't been relatively low key, but it will be interesting to see … [Read more...] about IEDR Engages With Reseller / Registrar Community
ICANN To Axe Add Grace Period – Domain Tasting On Its DeathBed
Domain tasting in its current form may soon become a thing of the past.The blogs and mailing lists have been buzzing for most of today following on from ICANN's announcement that they were going to try and axe the AGP (Add Grace Period) which has been abused by registrars.While initially it wasn't 100% clear when the change would come into effect a press release from ICANN in … [Read more...] about ICANN To Axe Add Grace Period – Domain Tasting On Its DeathBed
Porn.mobi To Go Under The Hammer
Caroline Greer's latest post to the dotMobi blog includes a preview of some of the domains that are up for auction next month.The auction, which will take place at T.R.A.F.F.I.C West in Las Vegas will be handled by MonikerSome of the domains are sure to attract a lot of attention, as they include banks.mobi, cards.mobi, tickets.mobi and porn.mobiSo how much will they … [Read more...] about Porn.mobi To Go Under The Hammer
Eurid and the failure to promote dotEU
In some ways the failure of .eu to capture hearts and minds makes me sad. I'm European. I'd like to think that a European namespace could be a success, but that seems to be a misplaced desire.As I mentioned some time ago, the only way to grow a namespace or TLD is through usage. Once people start to see a domain extension in "action" then they begin to start using it. If people … [Read more...] about Eurid and the failure to promote dotEU