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Parler Attempting to Come Back Online

January 17, 2021 by Michele Neylon

Parler has been offline for several days now and there have been thousands of articles written about how that happened and, more importantly, why. At time of writing Parler.com is showing a simple holding page: The text reads: Now seems like the right time to remind you all — both lovers and haters — why we started this platform. We believe privacy is paramount and … [Read more...] about Parler Attempting to Come Back Online

Nominet Shutters Member Forum Without Warning

September 22, 2020 by Michele Neylon

Nominet is holding its AGM today. As expected the event is being held online and is being streamed. A short time ago Nominet's CEO announced that they were closing the member forum with immediate effect. So the only online space where Nominet members, staff and board could interact has now gone: Prior to the launch of the forum several years ago Nominet members … [Read more...] about Nominet Shutters Member Forum Without Warning

Registrar Group Publishes COVID-19 Response Document

March 31, 2020 by Michele Neylon

With the COVID 19 pandemic a focus of attention for most people around the world at the moment there is an impact on domain name registration trends and the internet infrastructure business. While many of the domains that are registered containing strings like "covid" or "corona" are never used for anything and are purely speculative (good luck with that), some of the domains … [Read more...] about Registrar Group Publishes COVID-19 Response Document

COVID 19: What Registrars and Registries are Doing to Help

March 30, 2020 by Michele Neylon

Movie cinema billboard with three basic rules to avoid the coronavirus or Covid-19 epidemic of wash hands, maintain social distance and clean surfaces

With the COVID-19 pandemic an ongoing crisis across the globe many businesses are currently closed. Some of them may never open again. While some governments are offering packages of financial assistance the current situation is going to hit many sectors really hard. Against the backdrop of the current pandemic companies in the internet infrastructure have become even more … [Read more...] about COVID 19: What Registrars and Registries are Doing to Help

RegistrarStats Going Dark

January 3, 2018 by Michele Neylon

RegistrarStats homepage January 2018

RegistrarStats has been around for years. It was one of the better sources of information about domain registry market share, trends and, of course, statistics on registrars. It was. It hasn't been for quite some time. When the site was first made available most, if not all, of the data was available for free. If my memory serves me well the site also offered custom reports, … [Read more...] about RegistrarStats Going Dark

Middle East DNS Forum Issues Call for Committee Members

December 27, 2017 by Michele Neylon

The Middle East DNS Forum is now heading into its 5th year, with previous editions being held in Cairo, Tunis, Amman and Dubai. In common with many conferences the event's program committee is made up of volunteers. They've issued a call for volunteers to the committee as 3 of the current 6 members have rotated off. If you're interested you should have knowledge of one or … [Read more...] about Middle East DNS Forum Issues Call for Committee Members

DailyStormer Switches to Google; Google “Cancels” Registration

August 14, 2017 by Michele Neylon

At time of writing the extreme right-wing website Daily Stormer is still online. The website operator is now claiming to have "retaken control" of the site. However, as has been reported in the mainstream media as well as on most domain industry sites, the domain was booted by GoDaddy. It now resides with Google: Domain Name: DAILYSTORMER.COM Registry Domain ID: … [Read more...] about DailyStormer Switches to Google; Google “Cancels” Registration

Africa DNS Forum to be Held in Tanzania

July 12, 2017 by Michele Neylon

The 5th annual Africa DNS Forum is being held in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania on July 26 - 28. The event, which is being organised by AfTLD,  ICANN and ISOC in association with a number of other organisations, will run over two days and cover both technical and business aspects of the domain name industry. The current draft schedule has speakers covering topics such as DNSSEC, … [Read more...] about Africa DNS Forum to be Held in Tanzania

ICANN Appoints Jamie Hedlund to Contractual Compliance & Consumer Safeguards Role

January 4, 2017 by Michele Neylon

ICANN has announced a replacement for Allen Grogan. Grogan had been the head of Contractual Compliance, but announced several months ago that he was leaving the organisation. With today's announcement ICANN fills the position quite quickly, though whether or not the appointment of one of their existing senior staff makes sense or not remains to be seen. Jamie Hedlund had … [Read more...] about ICANN Appoints Jamie Hedlund to Contractual Compliance & Consumer Safeguards Role

TLDCON 2016 Registration Open

July 3, 2016 by Michele Neylon

This year's TLDCON will be held in Tbilisi, Georgia on September 7th and 8th. As with previous editions, the agenda will feature a mix of both technical, legal and marketing sessions. The current agenda lists the following sessions: IDN updates Legislative aspects of domain name registration Special ICANN section Marketing of IDN e-mail and new challenges … [Read more...] about TLDCON 2016 Registration Open

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