Domains & DNS: March 2006 Archives

From 20 June 2006 AFNIC is liberalising .fr domain registrations. Similar to a growing number of ccTLD registries, the French registry will be opening its doors to everyone with an address in France. They've set up a special site to publicise the changes, which is aptly named faites-vous-un-nom.fr

Nominet has just launched an online portal for registrars (tag holders) and other clients. It's quite similar to the IEDR reseller console in some respects, though it allows you to edit a wide variety of details associated with your account. For example, you can now easily edit where the various notification emails are sent to without having to ring them. This is handy, though I always find ringing Nominet to be a pleasure as their staff are so helpful. The only negative thing I have to report is that the site is really really slow. Hopefully this will improve over time

Following on from comments and conversations with bloggers, customers and other people we've decided to put an official Blacknight blog online. I would have announced it sooner, but I was in the Hilton :) So the Blacknight blog is here, while my blog will obviously not be going anywhere What will this mean? Basically I will keep blogging about the things that I'm interested in like I've always done, however the official company blog will carry content that I might not think is suitable for publication here. Similarily the company blog will not feature the "random" posts that my more personal blog may carry.

If you are wondering who voted in favour of the Verisign deal then pop over to Bret Fausett's blog Interesting to see that Vint Cerf voted in favour of it.....

Anyone who visits this blog more than once is probably aware of who I am and some people would consider this blog to be the "official" Blacknight blog. I've always disagreed with that, though I fully understand why people get that feeling. While speaking to a client, and fellow blogger, the other week it was brought home to me that while this blog maybe visible to those "in the know" it obviously isn't as visible as a blog attached to the main Blacknight website. My counter-argument to that was the one I have always used ie. that this blog is more a reflection of my personal eclectic interests and opinions than a soapbox for the company. While he did agree with me he also pointed out that there could be some advantages in running a separate company blog. I'm still undecided What do others think?