Tag: Domain name

Chinese Registrar Not Escrowing Data Correctly

ICANN’s compliance team have been quite busy so far this year. In one of their most recently published breach notices against Chinese registrar Xin Net is getting “slapped” for “Repeated failure to escrow gTLD registration data pursuant to Section 3.6 of the RAA” Unlike other compliance actions where the registrar in question simply has not… Continue reading Chinese Registrar Not Escrowing Data Correctly

IEDR Publish 2012 Domain Figures

IEDR have published their latest annual report which covers the period up to the end of 2012. Here’s a few of the highlights: Renewal rate of 86% Total .ie domains at year-end of 182,284, up 5.3% year-on-year New .ie domain registrations down 15% on 2011 By way of comparison the .no domain registry (Norway) currently… Continue reading IEDR Publish 2012 Domain Figures

ccTLD Registries Under Attack?

In the past 24 hours both the .nl domain registry and .be domain registry have been attacked. The .be registry‘s public facing website was defaced, though the defacement had no impact on the registry data. As would be expected the registry data is not linked to the public facing website. DNS.be informed registrars that they… Continue reading ccTLD Registries Under Attack?

Video: ICANN Proposing Replacement For Whois

Disclosure: I’m a member of the group that worked on this I posted in some length about the proposal over on the company blog a few days ago, but ICANN have since posted the video to youtube, so here it is: I wasn’t included in the video introduction as I didn’t get a chance to… Continue reading Video: ICANN Proposing Replacement For Whois

IEDR Appoint New Registration Services Team Lead

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… Continue reading 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,… Continue reading Nominet Puts Draft Registrar Agreement Out For Consultation

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 below: ß* à á â ã ó ô þ… Continue reading Belgian Country Code Now Supports IDN

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… Continue reading More Premium Domains Released by ME Registry

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