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Eurid Expands Support To Registrars

September 4, 2008 by Michele Neylon

Image via Wikipedia Eurid, the organisation that runs the EU registry, announced the introduction of 24 / 7 support for its registrar community starting next week.With the large number of accredited registrars based in North America (and elsewhere) this change is sure to be welcomed. … [Read more...] about Eurid Expands Support To Registrars

Eurid Goes Offline For Upgrade

May 22, 2008 by Michele Neylon

Image via WikipediaEurid is expanding its technical infrastructure this weekend.According to notifications sent to Eurid registrars they are expanding into a new data centre space.Unfortunately the knock-on effect is that the registry backend will not be available to registrars for up to six hours on Saturday. … [Read more...] about Eurid Goes Offline For Upgrade

Eurid Drops The Ball on EPP

February 4, 2008 by Michele Neylon

Eurid's EPP service has been offline or unstable for most of today.The explanation provided was that the maximum number of concurrent connections had been reached... So why did it take them most of the day to increase the number in the configuration? The mind boggles! … [Read more...] about Eurid Drops The Ball on EPP

Eurid and the failure to promote dotEU

January 30, 2008 by Michele Neylon

In some ways the failure of .eu to capture hearts and minds makes me sad. I'm European. I'd like to think that a European namespace could be a success, but that seems to be a misplaced desire.As I mentioned some time ago, the only way to grow a namespace or TLD is through usage. Once people start to see a domain extension in "action" then they begin to start using it. If people … [Read more...] about Eurid and the failure to promote dotEU

Eurid Examining IDNs

January 15, 2008 by Michele Neylon

Eurid, the organisation responsible for running .eu, is currently polling the public about their views on the introduction of IDNs.The poll maybe found hereMore information on IDNs maybe found on their site also … [Read more...] about Eurid Examining IDNs

Eurid Quarterly Report – EU Usage Up

November 19, 2007 by Michele Neylon

According to the latest report from Eurid to the EU Commission usage of .eu domains is up based on DNS query volumes.Seemingly registrants average 2.6 domains each!The full report is available for download as a PDF … [Read more...] about Eurid Quarterly Report – EU Usage Up

Domain Registration Periods – What is Sane?

November 11, 2007 by Michele Neylon

While it is possible to register a .com for up to 10 years the same is not true of many ccTLDs.In the case of .ie for example the only registration period currently supported by the registry is one year.With .eu, which might be better described as a regional TLD, the registration period is one year also.Nominet, for reasons that I've never fully understood, offer a two year … [Read more...] about Domain Registration Periods – What is Sane?

China Leaps Ahead – EU Loses Ground

September 2, 2007 by Michele Neylon

Verisign's latest domain report makes for interesting reading.The Chinese domain registry launched an aggressive price promotion at the beginning of the year and has seen in excess of 6 million names registered so far. Of course this could be similar to the .be promotion and the level of renewals is the thing to watch out for. Coming as it does at the dawn of .asia you'd have … [Read more...] about China Leaps Ahead – EU Loses Ground

Eurid Registrar Possibly Implicated in Squatting

September 1, 2007 by Michele Neylon

A few short days ago I mentioned that Eurid had taken action against a Chinese individual who had registered over ten thousand domains.While I initially did not expect to hear anything more about this story until the court made a declaration it seems that I was mistaken.According to a story published by French domain news site DomainesInfo there could be a link between the … [Read more...] about Eurid Registrar Possibly Implicated in Squatting

Eurid Suspends More Domains

August 29, 2007 by Michele Neylon

Eurid, the entity charged with managing the .eu namespace, is reported to have taken action against an alleged cybersquatter based in China, Zheng Qingying.John over on WhoisIreland picked up the story from DomainsInfo. He's also provided a list with some  of the domains affected.The last suspension "en masse" was directed against Ovidio when over 74 thousand domains were … [Read more...] about Eurid Suspends More Domains

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