May 11th, 2006

You are currently browsing the articles from WhoisIreland Review written on May 11th, 2006.

.eu -Irish Firms Face Long Wait For Sunrise .eu Names

Only 1000 Sunrise applications for .eu domains are checked each day by Eurid’s validation agent PwC BE. It seems that the “popularity” of .eu was completely underestimated. With hundreds of thousands of applications from Sunrise 1 and Sunrise 2 the mickey mouse validation process is swamped. Of the 1503 Irish companies who submitted their applications for their company identity as their .eu domain, they have a long wait ahead. Not even one Irish company name application has been validated. It could be next year before some of these applications are even dealt with.

The sheer incompetence of the Commission and Eurid in underestimating the attraction of .eu is quite staggering. Furthermore it calls into question the “expertise” of the panel that selected the Eurid bid for to run the .eu registry. The whole .eu fiasco has been such a disaster for Europe and if anything, it has caused an increased focus on some of the more credible ccTLDs in Europe.

Tags: ,, , , , , ,
,

Written by John McCormac on May 11th, 2006 with 1 comment.
Read more articles on Domains And Statistics and Irish Tech News.

ICANN Rejects .xxx TLD

ICANN voted against giving the go-ahead for the new porn TLD .xxx yesterday. The vote was 9 to 5. The theory behind .xxx is that it would be a TLD to where the porn sites could be banished. It would be simplistic to think that all porn sites would be removed from the main gTLDs and other ccTLDs to the .xxx.

Icann Press Release

Tags: ,, ,

Written by John McCormac on May 11th, 2006 with comments disabled.
Read more articles on Domains And Statistics.