From Lesley Cowley, chief executive at Nominet
Welcome to the October edition of Nominet News. A lot has happened in the Internet industry since the last issue, including a new agreement between the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) and the US Department of Commerce. As ever, this puts Internet Governance at the forefront of our minds, especially as the Internet Governance Forum (IGF) fast approaches. More ›
The end of September saw the start of open registration for .mobi, mobile phone-specific website addresses. The promise of the .mobi domain name is to deliver better, more streamlined Internet content to mobile devices through content optimisation. More ›
On 8 August 2006, we took industry-leading action to prevent ‘domain tasting’, which has put a stop to the potential abuse of our automated registration service. Domain tasting, which has been a growing issue for .com for over a year, is the practice of registering domain names, assessing revenue generation potential and, if they create an insufficient return, deleting the domain names before the registry requests payment. Through the introduction of a new policy, we put a limit on the number of registrations that can be deleted by registrars. More ›
By David Taylor, Lovells
On April 7, 2006, the .EU Top-level Domain (TLD) opened for general registration to all businesses and individuals within the 25 member states of the European Union. This is the most heavily regulated TLD ever introduced, governed by EC Regulations, Rules and Policies.
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By Lesley Cowley, Nominet
The latest ICANN meeting, held 26-30 June in Marrakech, highlighted a number of current issues including the closer co-operation between ICANN and country code domain name registries such as ourselves. The other main issues of the week, in my opinion, were as follows.
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3 July 2006, Oxford, UK – Nominet, the .uk domain name registry, and the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) today announced two major steps towards closer co-operation.
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24 May 2006, Oxford, UK – Nominet, the .uk domain name registry, is celebrating reaching the five million mark for .uk domain name registrations. The landmark registration, Hosepipebanbuster.co.uk, was registered by Watermatics Ltd, an irrigation company based in Hertfordshire.
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