After the (not so pleasant ) attempt to olfactory stimulation, the Wonderful World of Domains tries now to tickle our spirit through our ears. The German Registrar United Domains has in fact decided to wander uncharted territories, publishing what to my knowledge is the first song dedicated to domain names ...
 

The reports from the ICANN Board Meetings are always full of useful information. The latest meeting obviously lives up to the expectations, and among the highlights from the 30th of April´s session there is also the official confirmation that the last ICANN Meeting for 2008 will be held in Cairo between ...
 

And just to insist a bit more on what I wrote in my previous post about efficiency and openness to the needs of the market in the management of ccTLD Registries, I would like to point out the great example of the Czech Registry. At the end of last year CZ.NIC ...
 

The domain market in the last few years has seen incredible growth rates: the growing number of people with Internet access and the increasing number of low cost offerings has made “registering a domain name” a mainstream phenomenon, a practical and easy way even for Average Joe to get a ...
 

Una nota veloce (al momento sono oberato di lavoro…  :cry: ) su un´altra interessante iniziativa del Capitolo Italiano dell´ISOC. Il 19 Maggio a Roma si terrá un workshop molto interessante dal titolo “Il Sistema Internet: verso la costituzione dell´IGF Italia“. ISOC Italia si é dimostrata molto attiva e attenta al dibattito ...
 

L´altro giorno un´asta di SEDO ha attratto la mia attenzione, non tanto per il prezzo raggiunto quanto per ovvie implicazioni culturali su un blogger italiano all´estero . Se siete interessati, avete ancora qualche ora per superare l´attuale offerta di 2 milioni e 605mila dollari sul dominio pizza.com ...
 

Today at 12:00 expired the deadline to present proposals to the Danish Telecommunication Agency for the management of the .DK Registry. The great news is that besides the current operator, DK-Hostmaster, 2 big players of the domain industry have joined forces to present a competitive proposal to the Danish authorities. Tina ...
 

The Montenegrian Registry has recently published the schedule for the launch of the .ME domains. At the same time the website of the designated operator DotME has been launched: behind it a joint venture that sees Afilias e GoDaddy as its main actors. Besides the fact that DotME seem to have ...
 

The last chapter in the saga of Registrars censoring their own customers tells us the story of how Network Solutions decided to suspend the domain fitnathemovie.com, officially for violating their AUP. The website connected to the domain was used to promote the movie “Fitna”, a 15-minutes film by Dutch right-wing ...
 

The Swedish Registry .SE was the first one in the world to start offering a commercial DNSSEC product last year. The success of this experiment has been so far quite limited, amounting more to a proof of concept than a commercially sustainable product, and the fact that DNSSEC has to face ...