The UK registry has now hit the seven million names registered.You may recall them hitting six million names in July of last year, which means (obviously) that they've added over one million names in just over a year.tootsdrivingschool.co.uk was the 7 millionth domain.More on this story on the Nominet site … [Read more...] about UK Hits Seven Million Domains
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DotMobi Extends Pricing Promotion
While other domain registries seem only to happy to increase their prices this autumn it is refreshing to see that dotMobi won't.DotMobi have been offering registrars promotional pricing for most of this year, although they were meant to be halting the promotion during the autumn. They have now revealed that they will be continuing with their promotional pricing until the end … [Read more...] about DotMobi Extends Pricing Promotion
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 expected.More information is available on the DotDK siteBoth … [Read more...] about Dotdk To Come Under New Management
AFNIC Publishes Preleminary EPP Timeline
In common with a lot of the other ccTLDs, AFNIC is slowly but surely making the move to EPP.Earlier this morning all registrars were emailed with details of the provisional EPP timeline and technical details.Further information is on the AFNIC site. … [Read more...] about AFNIC Publishes Preleminary EPP Timeline
PIR Blog Now Live
The management team behind PIR (dotOrg) have a blog. Although there are only a couple of articles on there at present hopefully they'll be adding more content over the coming weeks and months. … [Read more...] about PIR Blog Now Live
One and Two Character Domains? Dotmobi and dotcoop
Short domains are more memorable.You can't really argue with that.However a lot of registries don't allow them for a variety of reasons.The Isle of Man is one of the few exceptions that springs to mind, as they allow pretty much any length, but charge more for the shorter ones.The Irish domain registry does not allow two letter domains, but will allow two character domains. … [Read more...] about One and Two Character Domains? Dotmobi and dotcoop
Mexico – Over 250 Thousand Domains Registered
The Mexican NIC has announced that they've broken the 250 thousand mark.In their latest newsletter, which is sent registrants and stakeholders, the Mexican domain registry speaks of how it took 15 years to get the first 100 thousand domains registered, but only 2 and a half years to get the next 100 thousand names.More details on their site (in Spanish) … [Read more...] about Mexico – Over 250 Thousand Domains Registered
Eurid Goes Offline For Upgrade
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
Nominet EPP Live
Nominet has put its EPP service live as of this morning.Best of luck to them! … [Read more...] about Nominet EPP Live
France Passes The One Million Mark
The .fr registry (AFNIC) had a milestone a few days ago.They've now got over one million domains registered!While that may seem like a significant number it pales in comparison to the figure of DENIC or Nominet. However, if you compare .fr to one of its European neighbours like Ireland, with barely 90k domains it's still impressive.The bizarre thing is that AFNIC didn't bother … [Read more...] about France Passes The One Million Mark