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Pinky Brand Leaves Afilas / DotMobi

Domain industry veteran Pinkard Alan Brand, better known as “Pinky”, has left Afilias / DotMobi. Brand was with .mobi from before their launch and in recently had been focussing on the GoMobi product. With Pinky’s deep industry knowledge and experience I’d expect to see him being snapped up fairly quickly! Related articles DotPro Registry Migrating… Continue reading Pinky Brand Leaves Afilas / DotMobi

DotPro Registry Migrating To Afilias Backend

The .pro registry will be migrating to the Afilias EPP system in June 2012. The move is hardly surprising, as the .pro registry was acquired by Afilias early this year. What impact will this have on registrants? Pretty much none. Registrars, however, will need to re-integrate their backend systems with the registry and unfortunately their… Continue reading DotPro Registry Migrating To Afilias Backend

Afilias Acquires .Pro

Afilias has acquired .pro (RegistryPro) I assume they’ll move the registry backend to the Afilias system at some point, though managing that transition is going to be awkward. Here’s the release: DUBLIN, Jan 17, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) — Afilias Limited, the ICANN-designated registry operator for the .INFO top level domain (TLD) and a global provider… Continue reading Afilias Acquires .Pro

Afilias Attempts To Bury The Hatchet With Registrars

Afilias was vocally opposed to vertical integration and cross-ownership between registrars and registries. Several of its policy staff were active participants in the VI (vertical integration) working group within the GNSO for the last few months. And if you have a few hours to spare you can trawl through the email archives and meeting recordings… Continue reading Afilias Attempts To Bury The Hatchet With Registrars

Afilias Acquires dotMobi

Afilias, which runs .info and provides registry services to a lot of other domains, has acquired the .mobi registry operator – mTLD Ltd. The acquisition was officially announced on February 11th 2010, with both Afilias and mTLD releasing press releases etc., as well as a message to pass on to any registrants who might be… Continue reading Afilias Acquires dotMobi

DK Registry To Close For 24 Hours!

All registry operators have maintenance windows. In some cases they last a few minutes, while in others they can last a few hours. But DK Hostmaster has to “take the biscuit”. They’re shutting down all operations for a full 24 hours! While existing domains will continue to function as normal, the registry will be closed… Continue reading DK Registry To Close For 24 Hours!

Doteco Bids Heat Up – Catfight Anyone?

The new TLD process is occupying a lot of people in the domain name industry at present. While some people are obviously very much against the entire concept of new TLDs, there are plenty of people and organisations who support the project. But what happens when you have more than one organisation vying for the… Continue reading Doteco Bids Heat Up – Catfight Anyone?

Want To Run A ccTLD?

Who needs new gTLDs when you can grab your own ccTLD! Last year I noticed a trend in the ccTLD world, with a lot of governments and interest groups taking an interest in governance of their namespaces. AFNIC, which runs .fr and several other cctlds, came under review from the French government. Less than a… Continue reading Want To Run A ccTLD?

Domain Pricing – Is There A Ceiling?

The announcements by Verisign, PIR and Afilias of price increases in com,net,org and .info shouldn’t really come as a surprise to anyone. However if the year on year price increases do leave an interesting question – is there an upper ceiling? Will the next price increase have a negative impact on some of the low… Continue reading Domain Pricing – Is There A Ceiling?

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