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Under.me Promotes Deliver.me – But They Don’t Have The Domain!

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Under.me launched a few months ago as an online underwear shop. It's backed by Bar Refaeli, the Israeli model, and offers a range of underwear for both men and women. It's a great domain and the site looks pretty slick. But they've obviously got a bit ahead of themselves in their marketing.. Over the last couple of days they've been promoting a new delivery service … [Read more...] about Under.me Promotes Deliver.me – But They Don’t Have The Domain!

Transparency Fail – Nominet’s Registrar Meeting On Direct UK

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Today Nominet held their annual registrar conference. Unlike other year's there was only one topic on the agenda: The Direct UK Consultation. I wrote about my issues with the proposal a while back and Edwin Hayward has collected pretty much all references to it in both blogs and mainstream media here. While I was not able to attend in person I was trying to follow the … [Read more...] about Transparency Fail – Nominet’s Registrar Meeting On Direct UK

IEDR Issue Statement About Security Incident

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IEDR issued a statement yesterday in relation to the hijacking of google.ie and yahoo.ie The statement (IEDR_Statement_F_issued_9_November_2012) which is included below admits that their site was compromised and that the registrar was not to blame. IEDR has concluded an investigation by the company and external security consultants of an unauthorised intrusion into the … [Read more...] about IEDR Issue Statement About Security Incident

Help.me Launched To Help Sandy Victims

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The .me registry launched help.me earlier this afternoon. The site's concept is dead simple - to help people affected by the Sandy super-storm in New York and along the US Eastern seaboard. It's not a complicated or "sexy" site. It doesn't have to be. What it is, however, is a fantastic example of a domain name being put to work to benefit fellow human beings. The guys in … [Read more...] about Help.me Launched To Help Sandy Victims

Right Of The Dot Partner With Escrow.com To Offer New TLD Private Auction Solution

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If you have a look at the new TLD applications you'll quickly see that there are quite a few in competition with each other. ICANN will be sorting out some form of "draw" to see who goes first and there's also going to be objections, string contention and government "advice". But one of the things that's been made clear for a very long time is that applicants would need … [Read more...] about Right Of The Dot Partner With Escrow.com To Offer New TLD Private Auction Solution

Fadi Chehadé Explains Brussels Meeting

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Philip Corwin from the Internet Commerce Association has published an email from Fadi Chehadé that explains this week's "secret" meeting in Brussels. Over the past week or so there had been rumours of a meeting being held in Brussels about the Trademark Clearing House. However it wasn't clear to many either who was organising the meeting, who had been invited or what the … [Read more...] about Fadi Chehadé Explains Brussels Meeting

.Pw Announce Launch Plans and Add Whois Server

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We mentioned the plans to relaunch .pw recently. Since then the .pw team have been quite active. The new registry site is now live and includes information about the launch, with the dates of the various periods ie. sunrise, landrush and general availability. Their IANA entry was also updated earlier today to include the new whois server, though it will probably take a … [Read more...] about .Pw Announce Launch Plans and Add Whois Server

IANA Whois For IE Updated

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The IANA whois data for .ie was changed yesterday. While the "sponsoring organisation" is still listed as UCD,  the other contacts have switched The old listing was: Hostmaster Team at University College University College Dublin Computing Services Computer Centre Belfield Dublin City hostmaster@ucd.ie And a similar entry for the technical contact. This is now … [Read more...] about IANA Whois For IE Updated

CNNIC To Implement Alternative WHOIS

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CNNIC, the .cn registry, are to implement an alternative to traditional whois. According to an announcement by ICANN's Kurt Pritz, the Chinese organisation will be implementing a "RESTful" Whois server implementation. This is based on ongoing work within the IETF in the rather oddly named "weirds" project. Of course "weirds" is actually an acronym for: "Web Extensible … [Read more...] about CNNIC To Implement Alternative WHOIS