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	<title>WhoisIreland Review</title>
	<link>http://blog.whoisireland.com</link>
	<description>Search Engines, Domains, Statistics and Analysis</description>
	<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jun 2008 17:04:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>ICANN Kills Domain Tasting?</title>
		<link>http://blog.whoisireland.com/2008/06/26/icann-kills-domain-tasting/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jun 2008 17:04:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John McCormac</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Domains And Statistics</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[ICANN voted to accept its budget for Fiscal Year 2009. The budget document contains a proposal to impose the transaction fee of $0.20 on domains deleted during the Add Grace Period. The fee will be applied to transactions exceeding 10% of that registrar&#8217;s net new registrations in any month or 50 domains, whichever is the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ovidio Dropping .eu domains?</title>
		<link>http://blog.whoisireland.com/2008/04/29/ovidio-dropping-eu-domains/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.whoisireland.com/2008/04/29/ovidio-dropping-eu-domains/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Apr 2008 11:20:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John McCormac</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Domains And Statistics</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The number of Cyprus registered domains has fallen dramatically since the first of the month. On 01 April 2008 it was 90,363. This morning (29 April) it is 52,509. A quick check of some Ovido Limited domains registered during the April 2006 landrush shows that they are now in Quarantine and scheduled for deletion.
The incompetence [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Only 13.37% .eu Websites Active/Unique - .eu is a disaster zone</title>
		<link>http://blog.whoisireland.com/2008/01/29/only-1337-eu-websites-activeunique-eu-is-a-disaster-zone/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.whoisireland.com/2008/01/29/only-1337-eu-websites-activeunique-eu-is-a-disaster-zone/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jan 2008 15:49:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John McCormac</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Domains And Statistics</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The latest WhoisIreland.com .eu web survey shows that the .eu ccTLD is in serious trouble. Out of 1723638 websites checked, only 13.37% of sites were active/unique. As a ccTLD for Europe, it is a disaster zone. Brand registrations accounted for 7.78% of registrations. The percentage of duplicate content sites was 6.02%. The percentage of websites that redirected elsewhere was 16.68%. The percentage of PPC/warehoused websites was 14.22%. The percentage of holding page sites was 16.79%]]></description>
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		<title>ICANN Ends Domain Tasting?</title>
		<link>http://blog.whoisireland.com/2008/01/29/icann-ends-domain-tasting/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jan 2008 13:13:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John McCormac</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Domains And Statistics</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[According to a post on Bret Fausett's blog, ICANN has passed a resolution that will end Domain Tasting. It has taken ICANN a long time to deal with the problem. Domain Tasting exploits the Add Grace Period. The AGP is a five day grace period during which a domain could be cancelled without the registrar having to pay for it. This move is long over-due and ICANN has been criticised for not acting promptly to fix the problem.]]></description>
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		<title>Dell Targets Cybersquatting Domain Tasters</title>
		<link>http://blog.whoisireland.com/2007/11/29/dell-targets-cybersquatting-domain-tasters/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.whoisireland.com/2007/11/29/dell-targets-cybersquatting-domain-tasters/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Nov 2007 11:08:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John McCormac</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Domains And Statistics</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Domain tasters/cybersquatter operations Capitol Domains, Belgium Domains and Domain Doorman were named in a Florida legal actions by Dell Computers. Some of the court documents have been posted on Jay Westerdal's blog and make for interesting reading. The suit also alleges that one Juan Pablo "JP" Vazquez of Miami, Florida is centrally involved in the operation. This is a massive domain tasting and cybersquatting operation responsible for the bulk of domain tasting in the last six months.
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		<title>EURid Blocks 10K Buycool.com/Zheng .eu Domains</title>
		<link>http://blog.whoisireland.com/2007/08/28/eurid-blocks-10k-buycoolcomzheng-eu-domains/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.whoisireland.com/2007/08/28/eurid-blocks-10k-buycoolcomzheng-eu-domains/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Aug 2007 17:39:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John McCormac</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Domains And Statistics</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[EURid has blocked over 10K .eu domains that were registered by Chinese cybersquatting/cyberwarehousing operation Buycool.com/Blogdo.com/Zheng Qingying. French domain news site Domainsinfo.fr broke the story about how EURid is finally taking action.
The Buycool.com/Blogdo.com/Zheng Qingying cyberwarehousing operation has been using a UK phone number and a UK postal address as a claim to have been domiciled in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Top 20 .eu Hosters - July 2007</title>
		<link>http://blog.whoisireland.com/2007/07/17/top-20-eu-hosters-july-2007/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.whoisireland.com/2007/07/17/top-20-eu-hosters-july-2007/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jul 2007 23:43:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John McCormac</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Domains And Statistics</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Top 20 .eu Webhosters - July 2007 - Whoisireland.com]]></description>
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		<title>.eu - Less than 16% Of Websites Actively Developed?</title>
		<link>http://blog.whoisireland.com/2007/07/17/eu-less-than-16-of-websites-actively-developed/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.whoisireland.com/2007/07/17/eu-less-than-16-of-websites-actively-developed/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jul 2007 20:51:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John McCormac</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Search Engines</category>
	<category>Domains And Statistics</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The figure for active web development in .eu is now close to 16%. I&#8217;ve been refining the parsing (classifying holding pages and redirects based on frame src tags, duplicate content checking etc) and the active web figure now stands at 286222 websites out of the initial 1.436M websites. That&#8217;s 19.94% of the websites and 16.16% [...]]]></description>
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