Tag: registrars

Nominet Shutters Member Forum Without Warning

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… Continue reading Nominet Shutters Member Forum Without Warning

Registrar Group Publishes COVID-19 Response Document

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… Continue reading Registrar Group Publishes COVID-19 Response Document

COVID 19: What Registrars and Registries are Doing to Help

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… Continue reading COVID 19: What Registrars and Registries are Doing to Help

RegistrarStats Going Dark

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… Continue reading RegistrarStats Going Dark

Middle East DNS Forum Issues Call for Committee Members

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… Continue reading Middle East DNS Forum Issues Call for Committee Members

DailyStormer Switches to Google; Google “Cancels” Registration

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… Continue reading DailyStormer Switches to Google; Google “Cancels” Registration

ICANN Appoints Jamie Hedlund to Contractual Compliance & Consumer Safeguards Role

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… Continue reading ICANN Appoints Jamie Hedlund to Contractual Compliance & Consumer Safeguards Role

TLDCON 2016 Registration Open

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… Continue reading TLDCON 2016 Registration Open

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