Domain Diary

ICANN has decided to postpone .xxx introduction. As per msn.com:
A plan for a new internet “domain” for pornography has once again been shelved, dealing another blow to the …

Several hundred thousand new .eu domain names expected when EURid opens at 11:00 on Friday, 2006 04 07

The new Internet top level domain .eu was introduced in December last year, …

I just came by an *EXCELLENT* article by an active WHT member stu2 about different terms of domain grace period and redemption. I asked Stu for the permission to use it in my blog and it was kindly given. So, enjoy:

According to TheRegister:
A director of internet-overseeing organisation ICANN has resigned from the board, claiming he will be able to do more working from the outside.

Michael Palage was due …

mTLD just announced first dates for it’s .mobi TLD sunrise periods. The schedule is looking like follows:

Sunrise

Limited Industry Sunrise – May 22nd to May 29th
Trademark Sunrise –
June 12th …

All of you are probably aware of my feelings towards Bob Parsons, however, his recent blog entries:

http://www.bobparsons.com/EULandrushFiasco.html

http://www.bobparsons.com/Newfactsemerge.html

http://www.bobparsons.com/EURidResponds.html

made me think over this case. He’s somehow right…

Open source advocate Bruce Perens has launched an initiative to discourage owners of undeveloped Web domains hosting them on servers running proprietary software.Perens wants domain owners and resellers …

The .eu domain now has 1,595,192 domain names, most of them registered since the Landrush period started on April 7.

Top 10 countries for .eu

Germany (514,984)
United Kingdom (311,692)
Netherlands (189,912)
Italy (94,207)
Cyprus (74,481)
France …

Some 123-reg clients are waiting for access to their newly acquired .eu domain names two weeks following the initial release date.

The popularity of the new domain appears to have taken …

Devshed.com just published a good article (it’s for the newbies) on what happens (or could happen) when domain isn’t renewed in time. I myself thought, for a very …

Reviewplace.com recently gave GoDaddy their 5-star rating in domain_registration/domain_tools category. Usually, it’s nothing out of being extraordinary. GD is the biggest registrar, loved by …

Datamonitor.com recently wrote a quite interesting article about GoDaddy going public:
Go Daddy’s rumored initial public offering has caused lots of tongues to wag regarding the riskiness of the domain name market, but there has so far been relatively little attention paid to the other more lucrative areas in which the company operates.

According to several recent reports, the Arizona-based web services firm is talking to Lehman Brothers about an IPO later this year. The company declined to confirm or deny these reports, and simply said it had no comment.

The project I am involved in required me to get a semi-anonymous domain. It required no leakage of the owner details, at least by the looking into whois printout. I’ve …