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Recent content by jmcc

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    Improve Acorn Another new auction feed: .ie domains

    Many of the keyword domain names in .IE are long gone. As with most ccTLDs, the .COM domaining rules only work up to a certain point. The .IE ccTLD dominates the Irish market and anyone considering targeting that market has to have a .IE domain name for their brand or it will be a very steep...
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    The .UK revolution

    Active content on .uk domain names helps. It is going to be difficult to get over the way that the public in most ccTLD dominated countries (more local ccTLD registrations than gTLD registrations) remember domain names. They don't remember the extension because it is *their* TLD. For the UK...
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    Domain name rental instead of sales.

    Given the state of the domain name market, renting often seems like an attempt to monetise domain names that haven't sold and may have no hope of selling for a few years. The .COM has been largely stalled around 156M active registrations for the last few years. Verisign has blamed the downturn...
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    Domain Incite ICANN restarts work on controversial Whois privacy rules

    The WHOIS issue, at ICANN level, is a mess and privacy services and proxies are only a part of the problems. The imposition of GDPR added another layer of obscurity and made the Web less safe. It made it more difficult to identify the owner or contact for compromised websites. The WHOIS service...
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    The Predictable Response of Nominet to last week's EGM

    Looks like another of Nominet's diversification businesses has taken a bit of a knock. Godaddy has announced that it is taking over MMX and Nominet is providing backend services to some of MMX's new gTLDs. http://domainincite.com/26535-breaking-godaddy-buys-30-new-gtlds-for-over-120-million I...
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    EGM - What happened?

    A strange effect happens when domain name prices are raised. It increases some renewal rates because people think that the money they have sunk into renewing the domain names over the years makes them more valuable. (The Sunk Cost Fallacy.) If the price rise is too steep, it sends the TLD into a...
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    EGM - What happened?

    The voting rights numbers have been published: https://media.nominet.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Nominet-UK-Voting-Rights-2021.pdf Regards...jmcc
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    EGM - What happened?

    Early in the EGM, Nominet mentioned that the mergers and acquisitions meant that PDR's voting figure was zeroed. Newfold Digital combined Endurance International Group (owners of PDR and others) and Web.com. Without the mergers and acquisitions of the past few years, (Godaddy's various takeovers...
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    EGM - What happened?

    The vote was close according to a link on Twitter. https://twitter.com/garysmi/status/1374110275398475777/photo/1 52.7% For. 47.3% Against. Here's the Nominet PDF: https://media.nominet.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Nominet_EGM_ROV.pdf Regards...jmcc
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    EGM - What happened?

    Passed, apparently. https://www.nominet.uk/nominet-egm-result Regards...jmcc
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    Nominet EGM - is 1 hour enough?

    That would cause a lot of problems for the board and could trigger government intervention as people might suspect the worst. The media would also put Nominet and the board under a microscope. Regards...jmcc
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    Nominet EGM - is 1 hour enough?

    I'm still trying to figure out the implications of some of the bigger players voting 'no'. This EGM seems to have united the membership quite well and that will be noticed by ordinary registrants as well. If the motion is passed, then there might be some fallout for some of the registrars who...
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    Nominet EGM - is 1 hour enough?

    Linx is now in favour of a 'yes' vote. https://www.linx.net/contact/linx-news/statement-concerning-the-forthcoming-nominet-egm/ Looks like there is some momentum now. Regards...jmcc
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    Nominet EGM - is 1 hour enough?

    Does look a bit like an attempt to control the narrative by Nominet. It is also e-mailing members who have already voted. Regards...jmcc
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    Something I've noticed..

    Registration trends. There's a pile-on effect when some trend becomes popular and it generally fades after a year or so. The domain name market is also continually changing and TLDs fall out of favour as endusers shift to other TLDs (.COM users shifting to .ccTLD or similar). Secondary market...
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