Today’s podcast (40:09, 24MB, MP3) was recorded by Michele and Conn at Blacknight HQ, as painters put the finishing touch to the recent rennovations, in preparation for the official launch of Blacknight’s brand new datacentre (more on that soon!) Michele reports from Namescon, which he attended last week in Las Vegas. We talk about domain […]
Nominet, the company which runs the .uk ccTLD, have announced that from 2014, people will be allowed to register domain names directly under .uk. Prior to this, you had to choose a second level domain in which to register, such as .co.uk for businesses, .ac.uk for academic institutions, .gov.uk etc. According to Michele on the […]
ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, is officially 15 years old today. Dr Steve Crocker, chairman of ICANN’s board, reflects on the organisation’s history in a couple of videos they’ve published today. Worth taking a couple of minutes to watch: http://youtu.be/zJMqSxu1wOA and
IEDR’s annual report is just out and this graphic caught my eye: More details on the report here.
Google’s Matt Cutts explains the thinking behind how Google decides if a country code can be used globally or whether it’s only going to be targetted to a specific country. The basic thinking is that if the country code is in active use in the region then you won’t be able to target it to […]
This week we’ve got an interview with Kevin Murphy, editor of DomainIncite. Kevin has been writing about the domain name industry for several years and has been covering the newTLDs and ICANN on his site. Kevin and Michele discuss the domain industry, ICANN, DNSSEC, and the prospect of new top level domains coming on stream […]
The .me domain registry published an infographic earlier today which illustrates a few key points about .me domains. We spoke to Natasa from .me a few months ago (well, almost a year ago!) So what do .me have to say for themselves? Check out the image below for some details What do you think of […]
It looks like Google.ie has been hijacked The current whois record shows: whois google.ie % Rights restricted by copyright; http://iedr.ie/index.php/mnudomregs/mnudnssearch/96 % Do not remove this notice domain: google.ie descr: Google, Inc descr: Body Corporate (Ltd,PLC,Company) descr: Registered Trade Mark Name admin-c: KR59-IEDR tech-c: CCA7-IEDR registration: 21-March-2002 renewal: 21-March-2013 status: Active nserver: ns1.farahatz.net nserver: ns2.farahatz.net […]
This week we’re delighted to have ICM Registry‘s Patrick Donaldson as our special guest. ICM are the guys behind .xxx and Patrick is their “Registrar Liaison” so he spends a lot of his time talking to domain registrars about how they can sell .xxx domain names. ICM just launched search.xxx which is a search engine […]
Remember .xxx domains that launched a few months back? Well the guys behind the .xxx domain registry are launching a new search engine specifically for “developed” .xxx websites. The new search engine is using a pretty obvious and easy to remember name – search.xxx While the new search engine is unlikely to be a “Google […]
