News Roundup - .eu and .mobi

The Sunday Times carries an article by Mark Tighe about the .eu Fiasco that contains some interesting comments by Patrik Linden of EURid on why Irish companies are failing to get their .eu based on Sunrise applications. It is enlightening because it shows the utterly formalistic attitude of EURid and PwC BE to the core business registrations that ignores the whole purpose of the sunrise phase. EURid gets to pocket all application fees for rejected sunrise applications - so far it has made around 6 Million Euros from the rejections.

The Sunday Business Posts’ advertising supplement “Computers In Business carries an editorial by Adrian Weckler about .mobi tld. He seems to think that it will end up as a bit of an irrelevance. While some points are valid, the .mobi TLD is actually a far better managed TLD than .eu ccTLD.

Written by John McCormac on October 1st, 2006 with comments disabled.
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Technorati Still not updating despite pings and e-mails

Perhaps Technorati.com has jumped the shark and is no longer as essential as it once was to the blogosphere. Despite pings and e-mails to its support over the past week or so, it still has not updated the information about this blog. It thinks that the blog updated about 37 days ago. Right now, I’m beginning to wonder if it is even worth linking to Technorati. Apparently this blog is the only one having problems with Technorati. Other blogs seem to be having the same problem over the past few months. If blogs are being updated but not being polled despite pinging Technorati, just how useful and how accurate are Technorati’s State of the Blogosphere stats?

Written by John McCormac on October 1st, 2006 with 6 comments.
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