Domaining Europe will take place again next year in Valencia. The 2015 edition will be the 7th! So save the dates: 23rd to 25th of April 2015 (the Saturday is usually a networking activity of some kind) I’ve attended, spoken and moderated at the last couple of editions and it’s good fun. Unlike a lot of conferences… Continue reading Domaining Europe 2015 Save The Dates
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EUrid Announce Finalists of Web Awards
EUrid has announced the finalists for the “.eu Web Awards”. Public nominations for the awards were open from June 23rd until September 5th with websites being submitted under a number of categories, namely: The LEADERS (Established business with more than 10 employees) The RISING STARS (Start-up/Entrepreneur with 1 to 10 employees) The LAURELS (Education/Institutional/Pan European… Continue reading EUrid Announce Finalists of Web Awards
CENTR Organising Open Day For Registrars
CENTR, the association for European ccTLDs, is holding an open day in Brussels on September 30th. For the first time registrars are being invited to attend a CENTR meeting in order to meet ccTLD registries. The event, which is free to attend, is being held in the Stanhope Hotel in Brussels. At time of writing… Continue reading CENTR Organising Open Day For Registrars
EU Registry Suffers Serious Outage
Eurid, the operator of the .eu registry, has suffered a serious outage. According to official communications from the registry the systems were offline from last night until earlier today (though no official communication about the servers coming back online has been made) How long was the registry offline? By the looks of things it could… Continue reading EU Registry Suffers Serious Outage
ICANN Goes To Brussels 2010
Image by _Hadock_ via Flickr The June 2010 ICANN public meeting will be held in Brussels (via) Brussels has a lot to offer from what I recall. Lots of really nice Belgian beers, great food and plenty of other things to keep people amused. Of course anyone going to an ICANN meeting does so for… Continue reading ICANN Goes To Brussels 2010
Spanish Registry To Introduce Multi-year Registrations
The Spanish domain registry (.es) is planning to introduce multi-year registrations. Although an exact date has not been announced the change is expected to come into effect during October. A number of the ccTLD registries in Europe have either introduced multi-year registrations or are in the process of making changes to the registration periods available.… Continue reading Spanish Registry To Introduce Multi-year Registrations
Wanted : Hosts For ICANN Meetings in 2009-10
ICANN will be holding a meeting somewhere in Europe from October 25 – 30 2009, while another meeting is planned for Africa from February 7 – 12 2010. The question, of course, is where exactly will these meetings take place… The logistics of holding an ICANN meeting are quite daunting, to put it mildly. The… Continue reading Wanted : Hosts For ICANN Meetings in 2009-10
Dotdk To Come Under New Management
It’s official. DotDK is to come under new management from early 2009. The DotDK Society have released a full press release detailing some of the reasons why their new management will be a marked improvement for stakeholders. Afilias has been chosen to handle the registry backend, so the full deployment of EPP is to be… Continue reading Dotdk To Come Under New Management
ICANN Paris Venue Confirmed
According to DomainesInfo the venue for the ICANN meeting in Paris has been confirmed. They’re saying that the meeting will take place in the Méridien Montparnasse. Hopefully there will be an ICANN rate announced soon, as the pricing I’m seeing for that period is rather expensive!
Spanish Registry To Introduce IDNs – Sunrise in October
The Spanish domain registry is introducing IDN domains later this year In order to facilitate holders of prior rights there will be a sunrise period during October. More information here For some bizarre reason there doesn’t seem to be any news on the actual registry’s site