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 To Afilias Backend … [Read more...] about Pinky Brand Leaves Afilas / DotMobi
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Irish Politicians Screw Up With XXX
An article in yesterday's Sunday Times (Irish edition) by Harry Leech covers .xxx and Irish politicians and political parties. It's obvious that they didn't do anything about protecting their "brand" in XXX: Endakenny.xxx and finegael. xxx were both registered in December 2011, as were the addresses sinnfein.xxx and fiannafail.xxx Needless to say the domains were not … [Read more...] about Irish Politicians Screw Up With XXX
Big News Chez GoDaddy
This evening has seen a couple of pretty big stories coming out of GoDaddy. First off GoDaddy CEO told reporters that the company was applying for 3 domain extensions (TLDs) including .godaddy (their .brand). He wouldn't say what the other two strings were, but it's safe to assume that they are more generic. The other big news is that Christine Jones, GoDaddy's general … [Read more...] about Big News Chez GoDaddy
.Be Registry Offering Registrants Certificates
DNS.be, the organisation that runs the .be registry, recently upgraded their software backend to add some new features. While most upgrades usually only impact registrars, the latest update includes an interesting new feature for registrants - registration certificates. While this isn't a completely novel idea (a number of other ccTLDs offer it) it's a nice little … [Read more...] about .Be Registry Offering Registrants Certificates
New TLD Application System To Come Back Online At End of Month?
ICANN's latest update has set a date of May 22 for the re-opening of the application system. What that means in terms of the "big reveal" is unclear at this juncture, though some skeptics are positing that it won't happen until the public meeting in Prague. I wonder if we can persuade Paddy Power to let us place bets on the reveal date :) Related articles ICANN … [Read more...] about New TLD Application System To Come Back Online At End of Month?
A “Glitch” Does Not Last This Long
ICANN has been consistently referring to the issues with the new TLD application system as a "glitch". That's a serious misnomer. As a native English speaker I'd consider a "glitch" to be something small and inconsequential. When the software and systems that you are using to process millions of dollars of domain applications is forced offline for several weeks the … [Read more...] about A “Glitch” Does Not Last This Long
ICANN Reveals A Lot About New TLD Applications
ICANN's latest update on the new TLD application system downtime contains a few interesting titbits of information that have all the domain bloggers speculating about how many new TLDs there will be. According to the latest update ICANN has: 2091 pending new TLD applications 214 additional applications that haven't been paid for yet Pulled in $350 million in … [Read more...] about ICANN Reveals A Lot About New TLD Applications
UK Domain Names Now Available For 1 to 10 Year Registration and Renewal
Nominet turned on multi-year registrations and renewals today, so now UK domain names can be registered or renewed for periods from 1 to 10 years. With this move Nominet brings itself into line with gTLDs and a lot of other ccTLDs, where the 1 to 10 year registration period has been available for some time. As a registrar and registrant I'm delighted by this move. It also … [Read more...] about UK Domain Names Now Available For 1 to 10 Year Registration and Renewal
ICANN Shortens Public Meetings
At the last ICANN public meeting in Costa Rica the traditional Friday board meeting was incredibly short. For many people sitting in the room there were looks of surprise at how quickly the board was able to get through its agenda. Now ICANN has made it clear officially that Costa Rica was a precursor of things to come, with an announcement today that Friday is being removed … [Read more...] about ICANN Shortens Public Meetings
Nic MX Rebrands Registrar Division
The .mx registry, Nic MX, has rebranded its registrar division as "Akky" and sports a new logo and corporate image. They've adopted the hare as their new image stating that it symbolises agility, speed and warmth (or maybe I messed up the translation!) The new site doesn't have any additional information on what exactly they're doing, and currently is just a Flash … [Read more...] about Nic MX Rebrands Registrar Division