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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

Club Registry Celebrates 6 Years

May 8, 2020 by Michele Neylon

The team at .club are celebrating 6 years in operation. It's one of the new TLD domain extensions that many agree is a success. They've released a graphic that highlights some of their milestones over the last 6 years of operation: The headline numbers are pretty impresssive: over 1.3 million domains registeredover 300 thousand active websites157 registrarsover $8 … [Read more...] about Club Registry Celebrates 6 Years

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

Nominet Loses dotBlog Registry

May 16, 2019 by Michele Neylon

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The .blog registry informed their registrars earlier today that they're switching their backend to Centralnic from Nominet (There's also a blog post that's public here). The change will probably take place in August, though an exact date hasn't been announced. Since prior to its launch the .blog registry has been using Nominet as their registry service provider. … [Read more...] about Nominet Loses dotBlog Registry

PIR Hiring Associate Counsel

February 26, 2019 by Michele Neylon

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PIR, the .org domain name registry, is hiring for a position on their legal team. The role of "associate counsel" will involve a mixture of legal strategy, domain name policy as well as dealing with their anti-abuse program Full details of the role and how to apply can be found here. … [Read more...] about PIR Hiring Associate Counsel

PIR Names Jon Nevett as new CEO

December 5, 2018 by Michele Neylon

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PIR, the registry operator for .org, as well as .ong and .ngo, has announced who their new CEO will be. The previous CEO, Brian Cute, left the company several months ago and Jay Daley had been serving as interim CEO. Industry veteran Jonathan Nevett, who was most recently with Donuts, has been named as the new PIR CEO effective December 17th. Here's the full … [Read more...] about PIR Names Jon Nevett as new CEO

DNS Belgium Issues Call for Forum Members

December 5, 2018 by Michele Neylon

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DNS Belgium, which runs the .be ccTLD registry, as well as .brussels and .vlaanderen, has been running a forum for registrars for several years. Membership is open to .be registrars and currently it has 15 members. Members "represent the full .be sales channel of 430 registrars. At the meetings you are the first to hear about our innovations, new product developments and … [Read more...] about DNS Belgium Issues Call for Forum Members

Domain Pulse Heads to Bern

November 9, 2018 by Michele Neylon

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The 2019 edition of Domain Pulse will be held in Bern, Switzerland. Switch, the .ch ccTLD manager, will be the hosts for the 2019 event which is being held on February 18th and 19th in the Town Hall in Bern. Registration for the event is free and should open in the next few weeks. At the moment no details of the event's schedule have been announced, though based on past … [Read more...] about Domain Pulse Heads to Bern

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

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