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
Nominet Delegates First Batch of Reserved .uk Domains
While Nominet won't officially be launching "direct UK" until next year they've already started delegating some of the domains. Apparently 69 names were requested by the UK government and the first of these were delegated recently: Nominet has delegated the new second-level .uk domain names royal.uk, princeofwales.uk, supremecourt.uk and jcpc.uk to the Royal Household, the … [Read more...] about Nominet Delegates First Batch of Reserved .uk Domains
Sexy New TLD Marketing Video
While some new TLD marketing material might not be stellar, the quality of the marketing material coming out of UniRegistry is excellent. Frank Schilling's video for .sexy is slick and captivating and worth a watch: http://youtu.be/9GhfDoJWkIk … [Read more...] about Sexy New TLD Marketing Video
Pool Wins شبكة. Contract
Pool.com have won another contract to run the auctions for شبكة.(dot Shabaka). They made the official announcement earlier today. They've also been chosen by DNS Belgium as mentioned recently. Here's the full release: NEWEST OF NEW gTLDs NAMES POOL.COM AS AUCTION SERVICES PARTNER ‘شبكة.’ Accelerates to Market on Strength of Proven, Leading Platform Ottawa, … [Read more...] about Pool Wins شبكة. Contract
ICANN Testing New Site Design
ICANN Labs are currently testing out a new layout for the main ICANN website which they unveiled during the most recent public meeting in Buenos Aires: You can check it out here and read more about the project here … [Read more...] about ICANN Testing New Site Design
DNS Belgium Chooses Pool.com
DNS Belgium, which is running both .brussels and .vlaanderen have announced their choice of auction provider. They've chosen Canadian company Pool.com to handle their domain name auctions for situations where there are more than one applicants for the same domain: During the first phase (‘sunrise 1’) brand owners, authorities, companies and associations can register a … [Read more...] about DNS Belgium Chooses Pool.com
ICANN Publishes WHOIS Misuse Draft Report
ICANN has published a study on "whois misuse". It's been several years coming, having initially been requested back in 2010. I haven't had a chance to read it yet, but plan to over the next few days. Full details here … [Read more...] about ICANN Publishes WHOIS Misuse Draft Report
GoDaddy Acquires MediaTemple
GoDaddy has been on an acquisition spree this year, announcing a number of acquisitions in recent months. Today's announcement is that they've acquired Media Temple. Media Temple are a relatively big hosting provider whose focus has always been on serving developers and designers. That GoDaddy should acquire the company while surprising is logical. Media Temple made the … [Read more...] about GoDaddy Acquires MediaTemple
Telnic Increasing Wholesale Price by $1
Telnic, the .tel registry, have informed registrars that the wholesale rate for .tel domain names will be increased by $1 per year from $8 / year to $9/year effective December 1 2013. How are they justifying such a hefty price increase? This increase takes into account inflation rates and the continuing maintenance, development and provision of the Community Telhosting … [Read more...] about Telnic Increasing Wholesale Price by $1
DotGreen Is No More
Kevin reported on this last night. As you can see from the reactions to his post a lot of people are surprised, shocked and even quite upset that the DotGreen application has been withdrawn. It's not the only application for the string, which is why it was withdrawn, but to many people in the ICANN space it was the applicant everyone associated with the string. The … [Read more...] about DotGreen Is No More