ICM Registry, the company behind the .xxx top level domain, are getting into the search business. This Thursday they’ll launch search.xxx, which is going to allow you to “search .XXX” ie. developed sites that use the .xxx top level domain. If you use a .xxx domain name and want to find out about getting it… Continue reading ICM To Launch Search.xxx This Week
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IEDR To Offer More Frequent Zone Reloads
IEDR have announced that from Monday September 24th at 1am the .ie zone will be reloaded once every two hours. In other words, name server changes, modifications, registrations and other activity will be faster and move much closer to the model employed by gTLDs, such as .com and most ccTLDs such as .me, .co, .co.uk… Continue reading IEDR To Offer More Frequent Zone Reloads
New ICANN Boss Rejigs Management
ICANN’s new CEO Fadi Chehadé started working full-time for ICANN yesterday. His first order of business? Rejigging the organisation’s management structures and bringing in new execs. It’s going to take time to fully understand the implications and the impact of the changes that were made in yesterday’s announcement, and you can probably expect to see… Continue reading New ICANN Boss Rejigs Management
Cloudnames CEO Expects ICANN To Rewrite Internet Protocols
While most of the comments on the SSAC report on “dotless domains” are supportive of the recommendations one of them is completely opposed. Rolf Larsen of CloudNames wants SSAC to recommend a rewrite of the protocols! Instead of trying to force the dotbrand owners to not use their TLD like they would want to,… Continue reading Cloudnames CEO Expects ICANN To Rewrite Internet Protocols
ICANN Announce TLD Application Change Request Process and Criteria
Shortly after ICANN announced the new TLD applications list it became evident that some applicants may have made mistakes in their applications. For the last couple of months there has been a lot of chatter in the ICANN community about how ICANN would handle changes to the submitted applications. Finally this morning ICANN has announced… Continue reading ICANN Announce TLD Application Change Request Process and Criteria
Google Withdraws 3 New TLD Applications
Google has withdrawn 3 of its new TLD applications. Its applications for .and, .are and .est are now listed as “withdrawn” on the new TLD application status page: As Kevin pointed out, the three strings break the rules, as they appear on the ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 list and are the codes for the United Arab… Continue reading Google Withdraws 3 New TLD Applications
Kiwi.nz Registrations Opening September 11th
The .nz (New Zealand) domain registry has announced that provisional registrations under the new extension kiwi.nz will open from next Tuesday September 11th 2012. The new extension under .nz will not “go live” until 500 registration requests have been received. During the provisional registration phase, domain names: Can only be registered for a maximum… Continue reading Kiwi.nz Registrations Opening September 11th
Chilean Domain Registry Launch 1 Year Registrations
The Chilean domain name registry (.cl), which is celebrating its 25 years in existence has launched one year .cl domain name registrations. As of September 1st 2012 it is possible to register .cl domain names for either 2 years or 1 year. It’s not clear if the registry has any plans to extend registration periods… Continue reading Chilean Domain Registry Launch 1 Year Registrations
Dotless Domains Deemed A Bad Idea
ICANN’s security and stability committee (SSAC) recently issued a report on “dotless” domain names. These would be where the domain name is the extension – so instead of having $thing.$extension you would find $extension by itself. As the report (PDF) explains, there are quite a few technical issues with the concept of no domain extension.… Continue reading Dotless Domains Deemed A Bad Idea
Dot Nxt Cancelled
Rumours were flying around last night that the Dot Nxt conference scheduled for London next week had been cancelled again. Michael Berkens posted about the rumour over on his blog. Now this appears to have been confirmed by one of the attendees: It’s official. The Dot-Nxt conference has been cancelled. No refunds. Very disappointing #Fail… Continue reading Dot Nxt Cancelled