Nominet have published the Lyons report. The report was prepared by Sir Michael Lyons at Nominet’s request to investigate the registry’s operations. While the report was delivered to Nominet’s Board late last year the registry decided to wait until they had formulated responses to the recommendations prior to publishing it or their response. What will… Continue reading Nominet Publish Lyons Report And Board Response
Middle East DNS Forum Heads To Tunis
The 2016 Middle East DNS Forum will be held in Tunis. The event will be held on April 12 – 13. While the agenda and speakers have not been announced yet previous years have seen a combination of both regional and international speakers covering a broad range of topics related to the domain name and… Continue reading Middle East DNS Forum Heads To Tunis
GoDaddy Pulls Out Of SuperBowl
According to an article over on Market Watch GoDaddy will not be advertising during Super Bowl 50 next February. GoDaddy had been running ads during the Super Bowl for the last 10 years with several of its adverts attracting plenty of controversy. Some of the earlier ads they ran featured the GoDaddy girls, like this… Continue reading GoDaddy Pulls Out Of SuperBowl
Fadi Chehade To Leave ICANN on March 12th
ICANN’s current CEO and President Fadi Chehadé has put out a Christmas greeting on behalf of ICANN. It runs to just over 4 minutes and talks mostly about the IANA transition. However he also declares in the video that his last date at ICANN will be March 12th 2016 (around 2 minutes in): Who will be… Continue reading Fadi Chehade To Leave ICANN on March 12th
WHD Global and WHD USA Dates & Venues Announced
World Hosting Days, or as it’s better known, WHD, will be held again next year. In 2016 the “global” event will return to Rust, Germany, as it has done for the last few years, with the event taking place between March 15 – 17. Due to the events location most people tend to arrive on… Continue reading WHD Global and WHD USA Dates & Venues Announced
ICANN Multistakeholder Ethos Award Nominations Open
ICANN is again running their “Multistakeholder Ethos Award” The award, which is now in its 3rd year: seeks to recognize long-standing community members who have served in leadership roles in multiple ICANN working groups or committees, and demonstrated collaboration with different Supporting Organizations and/or Advisory Committees. The Multistakeholder Ethos Award will recognize ICANN participants who… Continue reading ICANN Multistakeholder Ethos Award Nominations Open
IEDR Hire New Staff
IEDR have announced via an email to their registrars two new hires: Customer Operations Manager Financial Controller The roles were previously held by one person, Angela Butler, who not only ran both areas of the IEDR’s business, but also acted as the organisation’s number 2. Ms Butler announced her departure from IEDR a couple of… Continue reading IEDR Hire New Staff
Domaining Europe Moves To Holland
Domaining Europe / Domaining Spain has been held for the last 8 years in Valencia, Spain. This year the event expanded with two one day events being held in Madrid and Barcelona. For 2016, however, the event’s organizers want to take the “show on the road” and have just announced that the main event of… Continue reading Domaining Europe Moves To Holland
Dot London Running Twitter Based Advent Giveaway
The .london domain registry has been working hard over the past year to build on its “local” roots. As you can expect the .london domain name is meant to be for people and businesses in London, so their site is full of examples and testimonies of London based businesses and people and how they use… Continue reading Dot London Running Twitter Based Advent Giveaway
DotGlobal Registry Giving Away Premium Names
The guys over at the .global registry are doing something a little different for Christmas. They’ve giving away premium domain name every day of advent! Every day from December 1st until December 24th you can enter a draw to win a premium .global domain name: We will be giving away one valuable premium domain name… Continue reading DotGlobal Registry Giving Away Premium Names