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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

Enom Revamps

August 29, 2008 by Michele Neylon

Enom, which is part of DemandMedia, has relaunched their main site with a brand new design and interface.The new site appears to have a simpler interface and also appears to be a bit more responsive in terms of load times. … [Read more...] about Enom Revamps

Unreasonable Charges From Registrars? Releasing Domains

July 24, 2008 by Michele Neylon

While everyone should accept that hosting and domain registration is a business I've always felt that some companies employ quite questionable tactics to retain customers.The charge that stands out is that some companies levy to "release" a domain name.While the entire debate about locks and restrictions for inter-registrar transfers has been discussed at some length at the … [Read more...] about Unreasonable Charges From Registrars? Releasing Domains

Nominet Expanding Online Services To Include Registrant Transfers

May 29, 2008 by Michele Neylon

Nominet has been working on developing and improving their "online services" over the past year.The "online services" are available to both registrants and registrars and allow both user types to manage various aspects of their interactions with the UK registry.Next month the registry plans to take the domain transfers / trades online.The announcement may be found on their site … [Read more...] about Nominet Expanding Online Services To Include Registrant Transfers

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

DotAsia LandRush Offers

February 25, 2008 by Michele Neylon

As dotasia is currently in landrush you can expect to see plenty of special offers from the various registrars.Eurodns, for example, are running a special which is quite attractive for the first two years. The only downside is that it's not that clear how the local presence will be charged thereafter ... … [Read more...] about DotAsia LandRush Offers

IEDR Engages With Reseller / Registrar Community

January 31, 2008 by Michele Neylon

While a lot of registries have been engaging actively in dialogue with registrars and resellers the IE Domain Registry has been avoiding it for the last few years.This finally changed with the launch of a private discussion forum for accredited IEDR resellers in the last few days.To date the activity on the forum hasn't been relatively low key, but it will be interesting to see … [Read more...] about IEDR Engages With Reseller / Registrar Community

ICANN To Axe Add Grace Period – Domain Tasting On Its DeathBed

January 30, 2008 by Michele Neylon

Domain tasting in its current form may soon become a thing of the past.The blogs and mailing lists have been buzzing for most of today following on from ICANN's announcement that they were going to try and axe the AGP (Add Grace Period) which has been abused by registrars.While initially it wasn't 100% clear when the change would come into effect a press release from ICANN in … [Read more...] about ICANN To Axe Add Grace Period – Domain Tasting On Its DeathBed

Afilias and GoDaddy to Get .Me

January 15, 2008 by Michele Neylon

According to post earlier today on Jothan Frakes' blog the .me registry is going to be managed by Aflilias in partnership with GoDaddy.Francesco posted about the tendering process back in November and while his post does cover most of the issues with the tender he obviously hadn't considered the possibility of a registry operator teaming up with a registrar - but who could … [Read more...] about Afilias and GoDaddy to Get .Me

Pot Calling Kettle, Come In Kettle

January 10, 2008 by Michele Neylon

While there has been a lot of focus on the blog and forum discussions of the Network Solutions front running reactions from registrars have not been as public. Sure, they've been there, but there's a lot of noise and chatter in the comments being posted to some of the more high profile blogs.However if you peruse some of the ICANN mailing list archives over the last couple of … [Read more...] about Pot Calling Kettle, Come In Kettle

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