The registration of mcallen.com has become quite popular on various domain forums due to its amazing WHOIS information:
Domain Name: mcallen.com
Created on…………..: Sun, Jan 01, 1950
Expires on…………..: Tue, Apr 13, 2010
Record last updated on..: Fri, Mar 23, 2007
Obviously this is an error, however it needs seeing to be believed!
We will be moving to our new office on the Oxford Science Park during the weekend of 8/9 September. We will be closing for business at 3.00pm on Friday 7 September and will be open for business again at 9.00am on Monday 10 September. There will be two outages for our external services over that weekend. The WHOIS, WHOIS2, DAC and Online Services will be unavailable and the Automaton will be queueing emails, during the following periods: Friday 7 September 15:00 - 17:00 Sunday 9 September 15:00 - 17:00 The Nominet mailing lists will be unusable for the whole weekend. We will be doing all we can to minimise service interruptions during this period and thank you in advance for your patience.
Nominet, the .uk domain name registry, has appointed Nick Wenban-Smith as Senior Legal Counsel.Wenban-Smith will lead Nominet’s Dispute Resolution Service (DRS), an internationally renowned mediation service for .uk domain name disputes.
From Lesley Cowley, Chief Executive of Nominet
Welcome to our third edition of Nominet News for 2007.
The months since our previous edition have been extremely busy, exciting and challenging in equal measure.
At the beginning of June we released our Online Services for registrars and registrants. This major project enables customers to manage their accounts online […]
On 10 June 2007 we made a fundamental change to the way we store our data. This change was essential to allow us to move forward and develop robust online services, implement new services such as EPP and prepare for new products. This restructuring of our database systems was the largest single technical […]
The latest ICANN meeting in San Juan, Puerto Rico was varied and interesting and the key discussions included the following:
Country Code Names Supporting Organisation (ccNSO)
Lesley Cowley, our CEO, is a member of this organisation that is responsible for developing and recommending global policies relating to country-code top-level domains to ICANN’s Board. Lesley led a […]
We conducted our third registrar satisfaction survey in the Spring and we now have the results. As with previous surveys, our aim was to give all our members and registrars the opportunity to tell us how satisfied they are with our customer facing support teams. 307 customers completed the web-based questionnaire and we would like […]