This year's IGF is being held in Kyoto, Japan. The event will be held in the Kyoto International Conference Center in Kyoto. When? Sunday, October 8 – Thursday, October 12, 2023 (5 days) The official IGF website doesn't have any details on hotels or anything else for now. The IGF is free to attend but advance registration is compulsory. This year's event will … [Read more...] about IGF 2023 to be Held in Kyoto, Japan
Domain Pulse Agenda Published
Domain Pulse is being hosted by Switch, the Swiss domain name registry, this year. The event will he held on February 6th and 7th 2023. So the venue is in Switzerland in the town of Winterthur, which is quite close to Zurich. From Zurich airport you can get a train or a taxi - it should take about 20 minutes. The event is officially held over two days, but the second day … [Read more...] about Domain Pulse Agenda Published
ICANN Gets First Female CEO
ICANN made what could be conservatively described as a surprise announcement last night. Göran Marby, who had been the organisation's CEO for the last 6 plus years was gone and had been replaced by Sally Costerton. While Sally Costerton's position is officially Interim President and CEO it still means that she is the first female to hold the top role in the organisation. … [Read more...] about ICANN Gets First Female CEO
Centralnic Head Honcho Announces Immediate Retirement
Centralnic's CEO Ben Crawford announced his immediate retirement earlier today. The announcement was made via his personal Twitter account: He also tweeted that the role of CEO would be filled by the Groups's CFO Michael Riedl. In a press release later this morning the company announced that they'd be promoting Michael Green from Finance Director to CFO to replace … [Read more...] about Centralnic Head Honcho Announces Immediate Retirement
EURid Hire New CTO
EURid, the company that runs the .eu domain registry, has announced the hiring of a new CTO. EURid's new CTO has been announced as Nathan Meurrens. Meurrens was most recently Manager of Digital Architecture for NTT-DATA in Belgium. He has previously held a variety of roles in various IT companies in his native Belgium going back more than 20 years. His predecessor, Peter … [Read more...] about EURid Hire New CTO
EURid to Raise Prices
The .eu domain name registry, EURid, announced on Thursday at their annual registrar event that they would be raising their prices from next year. From January 1st 2023 the wholesale price of .eu domain names will rise by 25c. The price rise will impact registrations, renewals, transfers and activation fees across both .eu and its IDN extensions. The rise is 6.25%. While … [Read more...] about EURid to Raise Prices
Dan to Integrate With Afternic DLS
In a move that should surprise very few people Dan.com is going to be integrating more closely with Afternic. Both Afternic and Dan are owned by GoDaddy, so the two aftermarket services working together makes a lot of sense. In an email to users Dan.com announced that the integration is live since last week. If you'd already opted in to Dan's "Open Domain Distribution … [Read more...] about Dan to Integrate With Afternic DLS
Domain Pulse Opens Registration
Domain Pulse will be held in Switzerland next year in Winterthur, which is close to Zurich. The event's theme for 2023 is "Internet as critical infrastructure: Maintain sovereignty and protect from abuse" and will run over two days. Where? Winterthur, Switzerland When? February 6 -7, 2023 Registration is free, but is compulsory. You can do it here. Domain Pulse … [Read more...] about Domain Pulse Opens Registration
New Zealand Switches to Canadian Software Backend
Earlier this week the .nz registry announced that they'd made the switch to CIRA's (the .ca domain name registry) domain registry backend software. CIRA have been quite successful in winning over country code operators to switch to using CIRA's software to run their backend systems. The .ie ccTLD switched over to the CIRA system previously. In both cases the software and … [Read more...] about New Zealand Switches to Canadian Software Backend
Ye Buying Parler
Remember Parler? While it might not be garnering as much media attention these days as it did back in early 2021, it's still around. And it looks like it's going to be owned by Ye (the artist who used to be known as Kanye West). I saw a tweet and blog post about the news from DomainGang and assumed it was parody, but no. Reality is stranger than fiction. You can read the … [Read more...] about Ye Buying Parler