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A New Domain For Canada

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CIRA's CEO, Byron Holland, made an important announcement today aimed at all Canadian internet users. CIRA currently runs .ca, but feels that maybe it's not quite Canadian enough... At present the .eh ccTLD is not assigned, though I'm not sure what the process would be for getting it assigned to Canada Meanwhile ICANN's CEO has found a cure for herpes You'd never … [Read more...] about A New Domain For Canada

Domain Guardians Confirm 7 Figure Offer On Australian City Domains

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A couple of weeks back Domain Guardians announced they were brokering the sale of several Australian city domains. These weren't the domains associated with small little towns that nobody would have heard of, but a set of high value premium domains including Sydney.com.au, Brisbane.com.au and Melbourne.com.au. Australian media is now reporting that they've received an offer … [Read more...] about Domain Guardians Confirm 7 Figure Offer On Australian City Domains

IEDR Switch A Nameserver

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While this might not be terribly exciting unless you're a DNS geek .. IEDR have changed one of their nameservers. Banba is no more. Well it's still there .. .. it's just not in the root anymore: eg. dig +trace log.ie ; <<>> DiG 9.7.3 <<>> +trace log.ie ;; global options: +cmd .            518400    IN    NS    I.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. .   … [Read more...] about IEDR Switch A Nameserver

Nominet Appoints Chief Commercial Officer

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Nominet, the .uk domain name registry, has announced the appointment of Jill Finney as Chief Commercial Officer (CCO). From their announcement: The CCO role has been newly created as we aim to build on our strengths as an internationally-respected registry and respond to the challenges of a liberalised domain name market.  As part of her role, Jill will manage Nominet's … [Read more...] about Nominet Appoints Chief Commercial Officer

CIRA Goes Large on Marketing And PR For Launch of French Language IDN

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CIRA, the registry operator for the Canadian ccTLD .ca, is raising its profile at the moment. They've taken over the frontpage of  La Presse today, though it's not viewable form outside Canada: Why are they doing this? Very simply it's all related back to the launch of IDNs in .ca in order to support French language characters. It is now possible for French .CA … [Read more...] about CIRA Goes Large on Marketing And PR For Launch of French Language IDN

.Sy Having Issues?

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Judging by reports the ccTLD of Syria(.sy) is having issues. This shouldn't come as a surprise to anyone, as the country has been having plenty of issues internally .. (a gross understatement!) TechCrunch report that Art.sy are now redirecting to a .net domain, though they're relying on a HTTP redirect (Can we say "doh!"?). While that might work at *some* levels it's … [Read more...] about .Sy Having Issues?