According to several reports UK registrar and hosting company UK Reg has been experiencing intermittent issues.More details are available here and hereThe company issued a statement to explain what happened:123-reg experienced intermittent performance issues on its DNS servers between late afternoon on Friday 16 November and Sunday 18 November. This meant that some customers … [Read more...] about UK Registrar 123 Reg Experiencing Issues?
Eurid Quarterly Report – EU Usage Up
According to the latest report from Eurid to the EU Commission usage of .eu domains is up based on DNS query volumes.Seemingly registrants average 2.6 domains each!The full report is available for download as a PDF … [Read more...] about Eurid Quarterly Report – EU Usage Up
New ICANN Chair Encourages Participation
ICANN's new chairman, Peter Dengate Thrush, has been urging more public participation in ICANN.Speaking at the Internet Governance Forum in Rio, Mr Dengate Thrush told attendees that "the door is open".In common with a lot of big organisations ICANN has been trying in recent months to get more public involvement, with Kieren McCarthy doing stellar work on the communications … [Read more...] about New ICANN Chair Encourages Participation
eNum 353 Public Day
The Irish eNum registry is organising a public "user day" later this month:Venue: Gresham Hotel, O'Connell St, Dublin 1 Date: Wednesday 28th November 2007 Time: 4.00 p.m. to 7.00 p.m. (followed by drinks and snacks) here will be no charge to attend the information session. (parking available; close to DART and LUAS) Agenda: * Welcome and Introduction (IENUM) * ENUM in … [Read more...] about eNum 353 Public Day
Nominet Registrant Emails Change
Nominet have announced that they will be delaying the registrant welcome emails by 48 hours for new registrations.This change comes in response to registrar feedback, as many registrants were getting confused by the Nominet emails.More info on the Nominet news site … [Read more...] about Nominet Registrant Emails Change
Nominet Registrar Conference
Nominet is organising a conference next week to bring its registrars up to date on services and products (as well as industry trends!).The conference will cover topics such as enum, raising capital, email marketing and SEO.Full details may be found on the Nominet site … [Read more...] about Nominet Registrar Conference
DomainFest 2008 Auction With SnapNames
The 2008 DomainFest, which is to be held in Hollywood, will include a live auction this time round.Since Oversee acquired SnapNames earlier this year it's only logical that they would be the partner chosen to run that part of the event.If you have some domains that you'd like to auction off now is the time to let the guys in DomainFest / SnapNames know … [Read more...] about DomainFest 2008 Auction With SnapNames
British Museum Wins Domain Dispute
The British Museum has won a dispute involving the domain britishmuseum.comThe Museum, which has been established for over 250 years did not have any issue in proving their rights in the name. What is interesting, however, is that the respondent attempted to claim that the UDRP was a reverse hijack.The respondent tried to claim that they had been making legitimate use of the … [Read more...] about British Museum Wins Domain Dispute
ICANN – Data Escrow Implementation
I've mentioned some of the concerns that have been raised in the ICANN community over the past year.One of the areas that was of particular concern in the aftermath of the RegisterFly meltdown was registrant data. In simple terms, if a registrar fails there could be a serious issue gaining access to the information linking registrants to their domain names. For some registries … [Read more...] about ICANN – Data Escrow Implementation
Domain Registration Periods – What is Sane?
While it is possible to register a .com for up to 10 years the same is not true of many ccTLDs.In the case of .ie for example the only registration period currently supported by the registry is one year.With .eu, which might be better described as a regional TLD, the registration period is one year also.Nominet, for reasons that I've never fully understood, offer a two year … [Read more...] about Domain Registration Periods – What is Sane?