Who needs new gTLDs when you can grab your own ccTLD! Last year I noticed a trend in the ccTLD world, with a lot of governments and interest groups taking an interest in governance of their namespaces. AFNIC, which runs .fr and several other cctlds, came under review from the French government. Less than a… Continue reading Want To Run A ccTLD?
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Swedish Registry To Release Geographic Names in December
The Swedish domain registry has announced its plans to release roughly 4 thousand geographic domain names in December. In common with several ccTLDs a block list forbidding their registration had been in place, however the registry’s board voted earlier this year to allow the domains be registered. The Swedish registry will also be transitioning to… Continue reading Swedish Registry To Release Geographic Names in December
IEDR Completely Offline
The IE Domain Registry is currently completely offline with all services down:whoisapiall web services UPDATE: Services are now available again
Spanish Registry To Introduce Multi-year Registrations
The Spanish domain registry (.es) is planning to introduce multi-year registrations. Although an exact date has not been announced the change is expected to come into effect during October. A number of the ccTLD registries in Europe have either introduced multi-year registrations or are in the process of making changes to the registration periods available.… Continue reading Spanish Registry To Introduce Multi-year Registrations
IE Domain Registry To Introduce Multiyear Registrations
The IE Domain Registry has announced that they will be enabling multiyear registrations of IE domains later this week. From 6pm on Wednesday 13th 2008 it will be possible to register IE domains for 1,2,3,4,5 or 10 years at a time. (Why you cannot register a domain for 6,7,8 or 9 years hasn’t been explained… Continue reading IE Domain Registry To Introduce Multiyear Registrations
IEDR Boss Interviewed in Sunday Business Post
David Curtin, IEDR CEO, was interviewed during the week by Sunday Business Post’s technology editor Adrian Weckler The full interview is available online. Some of the questions posed by Weckler revealed some of the more awkward and restrictive views of the registry, including its policy on censoring domain names. However it is interesting to note… Continue reading IEDR Boss Interviewed in Sunday Business Post
IEDR Annual Report 2007 – More Fun Reading
The IEDR’s annual report for 2007 has been published ( IEDRAnnualReport2007.pdf ) Of course they didn’t bother telling any of their stakeholders that it had been released, but we’re more or less used to their lack of communication at this stage, as they prefer to tell the media! In any case with the current Comreg… Continue reading IEDR Annual Report 2007 – More Fun Reading
McAfee Report Not Good For IE ccTLD
Anti-virus vendor McAfee have released their second report on Malware (pdf) which tracks incidences of malware on a TLD basis. The previous report, which received a lot of press coverage, was very favourable for several ccTLDs, including .ie (Ireland). This time round the Irish ccTLD may not be listed in the “dangerous” list, but the… Continue reading McAfee Report Not Good For IE ccTLD
Nominet Expanding Online Services To Include Registrant Transfers
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… Continue reading Nominet Expanding Online Services To Include Registrant Transfers
IE ccTLD Zone Reloads More Frequent
The IE Domain Registry has announced in the last few days that they are now doing rebuilds and reloads 7 days a week and that the frequency has been increased from twice a day to four times a day