Category Archives: Registries

News, Views, and Info About Domain Name Registries – Domain Name Registries Manage the Central Databases for Domain Names (Kind of like the Wholesalers of the Domain Name Industry).

ICANN’s Culver City Regional Registrar Meeting Slides

ICANN held a very nice regional registrar event last week and I was privileged to attend. Their Registrar Liaison Manager, Mike Zupke came through with his promise to send us the slides from the meetings. It was a good meeting, … Continue reading

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TAS Reopens

Ok, It’s game on again. After so many weeks of down time, research, and notifications, TAS has reopened.  They’ve allowed for some maintenance windows this time. Their target date for closing the window is now next Wednesday (May 30, 2012) … Continue reading

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ICANN Update and “Monkey Business”

Update 2012-04-30: The CEO of ICANN, Rod Beckstrom stated in an interview today that ICANN “will not publish information about who could see what”. ICANN posted an update today but it wasn’t about when TAS would reopen. Here it is… … Continue reading

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ICANN To Use “Digital Archery” Method for Secondary Batching in New TLDs

ICANN announced today that since they received over 500 applications they are triggering the use of “Digital Archery” as part of the batching of applications. The last report I saw stated that there were 839 applicants. It had been stated … Continue reading

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