IEDR announced earlier today that Paul Shortt has been appointed Supervisor of the Registration Services team. Effectively the role is manager of the registration services team which handle the day to day operations handling new registrations, updates and transfers of .ie domain names. According to the announcement Mr Shortt will be reporting directly to IEDR CEO David … [Read more...] about IEDR Appoint New Registration Services Team Lead
Nominet Puts Draft Registrar Agreement Out For Consultation
Nominet, the .uk domain name registry, has published a draft registrar contract for consultation. The registry had been planning a revision of its contracts for some time. Full details of the consultation, as well as the related documents, may be found here. Nominet are currently planning two public sessions to discuss the contract in July, one in London and one in … [Read more...] about Nominet Puts Draft Registrar Agreement Out For Consultation
ICANN Board Set To Approve New RAA
ICANN's board of directors is set to approve the new Registrar Accreditation Agreement (RAA) during a "special" board meeting at the end of the month The board meeting agenda for their 27th June meeting includes several "consent" items, but tucked the main agenda items include the 2013 RAA. If the board votes to approve it at the upcoming meeting then I suspect registrars … [Read more...] about ICANN Board Set To Approve New RAA
Belgian Country Code Now Supports IDN
Earlier this week dns.be launched IDNs (internationalised domain names). The Belgian registry opted to support the accented characters for Dutch, French and German. In so doing they've also ended up providing support for other European languages, such as Swedish, Finnish and Danish. The characters supported are … [Read more...] about Belgian Country Code Now Supports IDN
Nominet Offering Apprenticeships
Nominet, the .uk registry and also the company running backend services for several new TLDs, has announced an apprenticeship program. The company is offering 3 places across software development, business intelligence and technical infrastructure. Full details on their site. … [Read more...] about Nominet Offering Apprenticeships
Making Sense of GAC Advice?
On the final day of the recent ICANN meeting in Beijing the GAC, which includes representatives from many countries' governments, issued their communique as they do at all ICANN meetings. While the contents of a GAC communique always attracts commentary and reaction, the GAC communique from Beijing has probably provoked more debate, anger and confusion than any … [Read more...] about Making Sense of GAC Advice?
More Premium Domains Released by ME Registry
The .me registry held back a bunch of domain names when they went live a couple of years back. They've been releasing some of them via auctions, while others have been made available to companies who were able to submit a project plan to the Montenegrin company. Some of the higher profile .me domains would include wp.me, fb.me, v.me and there are plenty of other ones being … [Read more...] about More Premium Domains Released by ME Registry
XXX Registry Launches Promotion
ICM Registry, the guys behind .xxx, have announced a big pricing promotion available via select registrars. The promotion, which runs for the entire month of May, has .xxx domain names available from as low as USD$8.99 Disclosure: We are one of the registrars … [Read more...] about XXX Registry Launches Promotion
Uniregistry Hiring For Cayman Islands
Uniregistry, who have applied for 54 new TLDs, are hiring for their Cayman Islands offices. The company is currently looking for software developers, front-end developers, Sysadmins and marketing staff. It's not clear how much the roles pay, but they're obviously using the location as a selling point: Full details including how to apply on their … [Read more...] about Uniregistry Hiring For Cayman Islands
Domaining Spain Day One
Domaining Spain is taking place today and tomorrow in Valencia. Speakers from the four corners of the globe are addressing a predominately European audience on domains, domaining, new TLDs and related topics. The full agenda is here Related articles The Domains In Spain Fall Mainly On .. (blacknight.com) Domaining Spain heads to Valencia next month … [Read more...] about Domaining Spain Day One