It has been confirmed by Nominet that the transfer rules have changed. No longer can a domain name transfer be enacted and a IPS-TAG change requested at any point - the domain is now locked to the current registrar until the transfer takes place. This is due to the new transfer forms having a ‘TAG’ […]
Nominet are still in the process of conducting upgrades to their registry provision and associated services systems. Jay Daley, chief IT bod at Nominet, recently stated
"With the release of the new Automaton there have been a number of bugs that have affected some registrars, for which we apologise. In some cases our testing has been […]
Yesterday another Targeted Traffic (does anyone know what the T.R.A.F.F.I.C. is meant to stand for?!) auction was held, the headline figures are $10.9 million of name sales and a pile more ($63 million) of unaccepted bids.
We have decided to break down the pre-auction ‘reserve category’ and the top offers on the top of the ‘passed’ […]
There has been an interesting release by Vodafone, especially considering they are .mobi backers :
"An innovation on the Vodafone network will take pages designed for the computer, compress them by up to ten times on average and turn them into mobile-friendly content, making them easy to read on over 150 handsets without losing any of […]
A post in April on the Nominet News blog has largely escaped under the radar - the key point being the results of a survey:
"We were encouraged by the news that British Internet users are six times more likely to choose a .uk rather than .com address when looking for information via an Internet search […]
Nominet have recently completed their ‘data restructuring’ upgrades. It seems the new systems do have teething troubles with TAG holders unable to conduct LIST commands (fixed last night) and some TAG holders unable to issue successful RELEASE commands.
The new Nominet systems have tighter data controls so whereas slightly malformed queries were processed, they are now […]
Domaining is an often misunderstood industry so we thought we would take the ‘online real estate’ analogy and see how far we get with it as a method of explaining what it is all about.
If we imagine domaining as a city wide industry it is possible to see parallels to offline events, structures and patterns.
At […]
Judges acknowledge contribution in helping shape the global debate surrounding Internet standards and her active support of women within her own organisation.
Judges acknowledge contribution in helping shape the global debate surrounding Internet standards and her active support of women within her own organisation.
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