This year's Nominet Board elections will be for two non-executive directors (NEDs). As usual the seats are open to anyone and they don't need to be a Nominet member to be elected, though only Nominet members get to vote. The full slate of nominees was announced earlier this afternoon. With 6 candidates running for 2 seats this will be one of the more hotly contested … [Read more...] about Candidates for Nominet Elections Announced
.Club Registry DNS Goes Down
The DNS for the entire .club domain extension is currently offline, or at least appears to be. While some DNS servers might be still serving old data from their cache the actual DNS servers for the domain are not working correctly. The .club registry are apparently aware of the issue, but no details of what it is nor when it will be resolved. All gTLD registry operators … [Read more...] about .Club Registry DNS Goes Down
Facebook, Instagram & WhatsApp Suffer Outage
Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp have all suffered an outage this afternoon. Facebook owns all three platforms, so it looks like there's an issue on Facebook's side. It's unclear at this juncture what is causing the outage, though previous outages impacting big platforms have usually been due to software updates gone wrong. However it is clear that it's impacting … [Read more...] about Facebook, Instagram & WhatsApp Suffer Outage
Tucows Enters Domain Registry Market
Tucows has entered the domain name registry business. Earlier today the Toronto based domain name registrar announced that it was acquiring Frank Schilling's UNR which was his backend registry business. The transaction announced today appears to be solely for the backend services and not any domain extensions. Schilling had previously sold off his registrar and … [Read more...] about Tucows Enters Domain Registry Market
CloudFest 2022 Will be “In Person”
CloudFest will be held "in person" next year. The organisers of CloudFest have announced that the hosting industry event will be held March 22 - 24 in Europa-Park in Germany. In common with most events its 2020 edition was cancelled due to the COVID pandemic. In 2021 the event organisers held several events online only. Registration for the event as well as hotel … [Read more...] about CloudFest 2022 Will be “In Person”
Epik Hack Exposes Data of Millions of Non-Customers
Domain name registrar and web hosting provider Epik has been hacked and a very large amount of data is now "in the wild". At this juncture it's unclear exactly how much data is involved, but indications would suggest that the breach was extensive and included not only customer details, but also credit card data. While any hack is serious and a data breach is always a … [Read more...] about Epik Hack Exposes Data of Millions of Non-Customers
INEX Formally Appoints New CEO
INEX is the Irish internet exchange point (IXP). A few months ago INEX appointed Eileen Gallagher as Interim CEO however it was only earlier this week that the formalities were finalised and the "interim" was dropped. Eileen has been with INEX since 2005 and to many members has been the de facto face of the organisation for years. She's also been heavily involved … [Read more...] about INEX Formally Appoints New CEO
UK IGF
This year's UK IGF will be held online again. The event will be held over two days October 20th and 21st and registration is now open. The agenda for the 2021 event covers: data protection gender based violencecyber crime environmental issuesonline safety Full details and registration are on the official site here. Outcomes from national IGFs feed into the main … [Read more...] about UK IGF
Nordic Domain Days Announce 2022 Dates
Nordic Domain Days was one of the many events that was cancelled due to the global pandemic. The event, which started out colocated with Internetdagarna, is coming back as an in person event in Stockholm and is now going it alone. Splitting away from the bigger conference it was part of means that the organisers will be able to focus the schedule on topics of interest to … [Read more...] about Nordic Domain Days Announce 2022 Dates
Some Changes at ICANN
ICANN's CEO publishes updates on the organisation from time to time. Yesterday his update was in relation to some staff changes. David Conrad will be leaving ICANN at the end of September. He's currently the organisation's CTO and has been heavily involved in a variety of technical projects internally and externally. Marby's blog post does not provide any explanation as … [Read more...] about Some Changes at ICANN