RegisterFly Update March 31 : Not a ICANN accredited registrar
This is an update on the termination of RegistrFly as an ICANN accredited registrar.As was previously advised ICANN sent a notice of termination to RegisterFly effective 31 March 2007. Under the agreement RegisterFly can initiate arbitration challenging the termination. RegisterFly has decided to do that and has notified ICANN. That means the termination has to be stayed by at least an additional thirty days. Consequently there will be no bulk transfer to another Accredited registrar until further notice. This clearly does not help registrants. It is another example of RegisterFly putting its own interests ahead of its customers.
April 1st | , | Comments (0) |
Internet body rejects .XXX adult-only sites [ICANN]
The U.S.-based Internet governing body rejected a proposal on Friday to create an adults-only zone on the internet, or a .XXX domain.
Supporters of an .XXX domain argued it would make it easier to confine sex sites and filter them out. Opponents argued it would make pornography on the Internet easier to find.
The board of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), which manages the Internet’s domain-name address system, decided to reject the application for .XXX sites at a meeting in Portugal.
“This decision was the result of very careful scrutiny and consideration of all the arguments,” Dr Vinton Cerf, chairman of ICANN, said in a statement on the group’s Web site.
“That consideration had led a majority of the board to believe that the proposal should be rejected.”
The anticipated rejection of the .XXX domain had prompted the European Union to accuse the United States of political interference in the Web’s governance because ICANN currently reports to the U.S. Commerce Department.
“One of our board members said today in our meeting, and I’ll quote him, that this decision wasn’t a behind-the-scenes government move,” Serf told journalists in Lisbon.
March 31st | | Comments (0) |
GoDaddy .info Price Drop! - $0.99
GoDaddy has once AGAIN dropped their prices and are down to $0.99 for all .info domains!
A second chance for those who missed this. Just been checking a couple of domains at GoDaddy and at first i noticed the price of .INFO domains was down to $1.70 from $1.99, however within about five minutes of this they are now down to $0.99! (+0.25 ICANN fee) .
SALE! - $0.99/yr
There’s no better way to get your information on the ‘Net than with your own .INFO domain. And there’s no better time than now! “Info” means information to speakers of many different languages around the world. So whether you want to promote information about your business, your organization or simply yourself, .INFO is a great way to create an identity on the Web.
March 1st | | Comments (0) |
Google Offers $10 Domain Registration with Gmail and all the Google App Support
Google yesterday (14 Dec ‘06) anounced that Google has partnered with GoDaddy.com and eNom, two leading domain registration services, to offer domains for $10 per year which includes private registration to protect your personal information.
Now you’ve got one-stop shopping for all the services currently on the Google Apps for Your Domain platform — just find a domain, buy it, and get started. We’ll do all the behind-the-scenes configuration work for you. For now this is available for .com, .net,.org, .biz, and .info domains, but we’re working on bringing it elsewhere soon.
I believe the domain is actually provided by the two registrars eNom and Godaddy , I wonder why Google didn’t offer registration itself, its been an ICANN accredited registrar for almost 2 years now.
If you look carefully into it, its nothing but addtion of domain regitration process through Google instead of other registrars to its exisiting Google Apps service.
December 15th | | Comments (0) |
ICANN Signs Contract for ‘.asia’ with DotAsia Organization
After the last agreement ICANN and DotAsia Organization, the sponsoring organization for the .ASIA top-level domain, announced the signing of the .ASIA Registry Agreement on 6 December 2006 at the ICANN Annual Meeting in Sao Paulo, Brazil. On 18 October 2006, the ICANN Board approved the designation of the .ASIA sponsored top-level domain and authorized the President to implement the Agreement. With the addition of .asia, 266 domain names now exist on the Internet. DotAsia is the first gTLD registry with a headquarters in the Asia-Pacific region.
December 10th | , | Comments (0) |
.EU domains will get a price reduction as of Jan ‘07
From of Jan 2007, .eu domain will have 5 - 10 euro price reduction. . Apparently this is to cover both registration and renewal. EURid lowers the registration and renewal fee for .eu domain names from 10 to 5 euro.
EURid, the registry for .eu domain names, has decided to lower the fees associated with owning a .eu domain name. As of January 1st 2007, the price for registering a domain name and the annual renewal fee will be 5 euro as opposed to today’s 10 euro.
This substantial reduction is possible thanks to the huge interest in .eu and the high number of registrations. Note that this fee, set by EURid, is charged to the accredited .eu registrars and that they in turn set the prices for their customers. Many registrars bundle their services also to include web hosting and email packages, for instance. However, EURid is convinced that the price reduction will be carried forward and that end users will also benefit from reduced registration and renewal rates, given the competition between registrars.
“EURid is now following up on its promise to reduce the fees after one year of operation. We hope this will stimulate more users to see the advantage of having a true European Internet presence by choosing a .eu domain name,†says Marc Van Wesemael, managing Director of EURid.
December 1st | | Comments (0) |
.EU domains will get a price reduction from Jan 2007
EURid lowers the registration and renewal fee for .eu domain names. The lowered amount is from 5 - 10 euro.EURid, the registry for .eu domain names, has decided to lower the fees associated with owning a .eu domain name. As of January 1st 2007, the price for registering a domain name and the annual renewal fee will be 5 euro as opposed to today’s 10 euro.
This substantial reduction is possible thanks to the huge interest in .eu and the high number of registrations. Note that this fee, set by EURid, is charged to the accredited .eu registrars and that they in turn set the prices for their customers. Many registrars bundle their services also to include web hosting and email packages, for instance. However, EURid is convinced that the price reduction will be carried forward and that end users will also benefit from reduced registration and renewal rates, given the competition between registrars.
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November 30th | | Comments (2) |
Web reaches new milestone: 100 million sites
There may be a reason. Netcraft, an Internet monitoring company that has tracked Web growth since 1995, says a mammoth milestone was reached during the month of October.
“There are now 100 million Web sites with domain names and content on them,” said Netcraft’s Rich Miller. (Watch as the Web gave birth to the virtual self — 2:44)
“Within that, there are some that are busy and updated more often, and that represents the active sites, which are at about 47 or 48 million,” he said.
Bloggers, small businesses, and simplicity have combined to create the dramatic growth of sites, much of it just in the past two years.
“The bottom line is it’s much easier to create a Web site nowadays, and it’s much easier to make money with a Web site,” said Miller.
November 15th | | Comments (0) |