ICANN have officially announced that their next European meeting will held in Paris, France. (Full announcement here) The meeting is scheduled to run from 22-27 June 2008, though venue details are yet to be announced. … [Read more...] about ICANN To Hit Paris
Web Based Tool For Nominet Registrars
As regulars here probably know I run an Irish hosting and domain registration company. We released a bit of software that might be of interest to Nominet registrars earlier this evening. NB: If you aren't a Nominet registrar it won't be of any interest / use to you … [Read more...] about Web Based Tool For Nominet Registrars
Tracking the weather on your mobile – weather.mobi goes live
Weather.mobi is the first of the premium dotmobi domains to go live. The registry made an official announcement a few hours ago and the site is already up and running. Unlike paramount.mobi, that reserves a lot of its premium content for US subscribers only, weather.mobi provides local weather information for even the smallest of Irish towns. The Weather Channel have been … [Read more...] about Tracking the weather on your mobile – weather.mobi goes live
Secondary Market Frowned Upon by IE ccTLD
Whenever I meet up with colleagues in the domain industry from outside Ireland they are always amazed at the size of the IE namespace. While it's not the smallest ccTLD in the world, it is one of the smallest in Europe, especially when compared to its neighbours. Of course one of the many reasons for this is the policy. While the policy surrounding registrations has relaxed … [Read more...] about Secondary Market Frowned Upon by IE ccTLD
ICANN Investigating Domain Tasting
ICANN has announced that it is seeking input and feedback on the topic of domain tasting. (See their announcement for full details) Interestingly enough Michael Gilmour published an article a couple of days ago covering the same topic - "Why domain tasting is great!", which will probably raise a few hackles! One point that in particular caught my eye: Domains that are … [Read more...] about ICANN Investigating Domain Tasting
mobi takeup reflected in serps
I wrote recently about how usage as opposed to fluffy PR was the best strategy to promote a new TLD. The guys over in dotmobi obviously agree (they even included my post in their latest newsletter!) and their most recent article is about the takeup of the domain as measured by search engine results / pages indexed. It's worth reading, though I'd have to take some of the … [Read more...] about mobi takeup reflected in serps
MSN Blocking .info?
According to recent reports Microsoft's MSN messenger is blocking URLs using the .info extension It seems that this change only happened in the last couple of days. Has Affilias been made aware of this change? Is it an anti-phishing / anti-spam measure? Full story here … [Read more...] about MSN Blocking .info?
RegisterFly – Coming Back To An Inbox Near You
Just when I thought I'd heard the end of Registerfly ..... It looks like a mailserver in RegisterFly was rebooted last night / this morning, as I'm being flooded with mails that I should have received towards the end of last year. It's kind of amusing when I think of the headaches that they caused for the industry over the last few months and now they're filling up my inbox … [Read more...] about RegisterFly – Coming Back To An Inbox Near You
Bringing a tld to life
One of the key elements in any domain space is usage. It doesn't matter how potentially "cool" or "interesting" a TLD is if nobody is actually using it to provide content. It may be overused and totally abused, but "content is king"! The guys in dotmobi posted yesterday about some of the more interesting domains that they had come across recently. What did that lead to? … [Read more...] about Bringing a tld to life
Moniker TRAFFIC Auction Deadline Tomorrow
Tomorrow is the final day that Moniker will be accepting submissions for the TRAFFIC conference being held this October … [Read more...] about Moniker TRAFFIC Auction Deadline Tomorrow