Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit will go on general release in the US later this month. The movie, which stars Chris Pine, Kevin Costner, Kenneth Branagh and Kiera Knightley, covers the early years of Tom Clancy's fictional hero. So Paramount Pictures are doing quite a bit of marketing to raise awareness of the film.... However over on the Facebook page for the film they've … [Read more...] about Paramount Pictures Get The Domain Wrong
ICANN Opens Hotel Reservations for London Meeting
ICANN has quietly launched the site for this summer's meeting in London. If you're a domain geek (and since you're reading this site you probably are .. ) you might notice that the URL structure has changed. Up until now ICANN was using $city$meetingnumber.icann.org whereas now they're using meetings.icann.org/$meetingnumber I don't know if that is a significant change … [Read more...] about ICANN Opens Hotel Reservations for London Meeting
NamesCon Nearly Sold Out
NamesCon, which is being held January 13 - 15 in Las Vegas, will sell out within the next 24 - 48 hours. This is according to an email from conference organiser Richard Lau. The event is the first of the domain name events of 2014 and is expected to draw over 400 industry experts including domain name registries, registrars, new TLD applicants and investors to Las Vegas' … [Read more...] about NamesCon Nearly Sold Out
RIPE Opens Call For Hosts for RIPE 71
RIPE has opened a call for hosts for RIPE 71 which will be held between November 9 - 13 2015. As it's a meeting for network operators the connectivity requirements are quite specific with the venue needing at least 300 megabits and ideally a Gig Full details here … [Read more...] about RIPE Opens Call For Hosts for RIPE 71
Domain Pulse Release Schedule
Domain Pulse takes place every year in either Germany, Austria or Switzerland. The event is organised by and hosted by DENIC, nic.at and SWITCH. Next year's event is being held on February 20th and 21st in Salzburg, Austria. The preliminary agenda has just been released and covers topics that should be of interest to anyone who follows the domain industry in … [Read more...] about Domain Pulse Release Schedule
Eurid’s Christmas Greeting
Nice and simple http://youtu.be/N-lSu5ULPMk (and yes, I am in it) Related articles Be in with a Chance to Win a Holiday for 2 when you Register an EU Domain … [Read more...] about Eurid’s Christmas Greeting
CENTR Publish Quarterly Report
CENTR have just published their quarterly statistical report. Naturally the report is focussed more on European ccTLDs, but it contains plenty of data on domains at a global level. You can grab the full report here … [Read more...] about CENTR Publish Quarterly Report
UPC’s Filters Continue To Block Pirate Bay
The Pirate Bay has been jumping from one domain extension to another over the last few weeks. According to an article over on Torrent Freak, the site has another 70 domains that it could switch to. Here's what I get when I try to visit the site no matter which ccTLD it's using: I'm not sure how other ISPs are implementing the block, but if anyone has a screenshot … [Read more...] about UPC’s Filters Continue To Block Pirate Bay
Pirate Bay’s Domain Hopping Fails
The Pirate Bay has been "hopping" from one domain extension to another over the last few months. At the moment the site is using a .gy domain name, which is Guyana The site had announced that it was switching to a .pe domain name (Peru), but the domain has already been suspended. The site had been using a .sx domain up until quite recently, but that too was pulled. It … [Read more...] about Pirate Bay’s Domain Hopping Fails
Efibre.ie Transferred to Eircom in Domain Dispute
Several months ago Eircom, one of Ireland's largest ISPs, launched a fibre broadband product under the moniker of "eFibre". For some reason, however, they hadn't registered the corresponding domain name. One of their competitors Magnet had and setup a very simple site: I'm not sure how many people noticed, though I did see a tweet about it at the … [Read more...] about Efibre.ie Transferred to Eircom in Domain Dispute