CentralNic, the registry specialised in second level extensions like .eu.com and .uk.com, has just announced that there will be a simultaneous sunrise/landrush for .africa.com domain names starting August the 1st. It does very much look like CentralNic is doing its very best to get this launch done before people notice that soon there will be […]
Read more >There clearly was a need for a simple downloadable spreadsheet of all new gTLD’s. We have updated all information to include recent results made available by ICANN. With the information at hand, we also made an estimate of the earliest possible start of the sunrise for each TLD. This does assume the first sunrise does […]
Read more >To asses the impact which adding over 1000 of new domain name extensions will have on current systems, ICANN has asked Interisle Consulting to analyse the log files of one of the internet root-servers. The review of the logs revealed that a surprisingly large amount of requests is for domain names under extensions that actually […]
Read more >Since ICANN is no longer publishing a spreadsheet with information on all new gTLD requests, we thought it would be a good idea if we would make the overview we compiled of this public. Anybody in need of an easy to browse through overview of all new gTLD requests in one spreadsheet you can sort […]
Read more >ICANN just released actual dates for when they expect the first new gTLD’s to launch. The first TLD’s should be put in the root zones September 5’th 2013. From then on, it will however still take a month before the first sunrises actually start. Do keep in mind that the first TLD’s will all be […]
Read more >Shortly after the .nl-registry revealed that one of their systems had been hacked into and sensitive information might have been stolen, dns.be also released information about a hack on their website.
Read more >The SIDN (.nl-registry) reported earlier today that one of their servers had been compromised. Malicious software had been installed and the hackers even had access to a list of user-names of registrars and encrypted passwords. The registry hasn’t revealed how safe this encryption was, but abuse of these passwords isn’t ruled out.
Read more >At the end of August the Swedish registry ISS (.se registry) will take over the .nu registry. All registered names as well as all new registrations, transfers, redelegations,… will be managed by IIS from then on.
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