Rob Golding

Author's details

Name: Rob Golding
Date registered: 11/12/2011
URL: https://www.astutium.com

Biography

Rob Golding Internet Entrepreneur Member of multipe ICANN Working Groups - fighting for domain registrants rights Expert Witness on IT for UK Courts

Latest posts

  1. ICANN De-Accredits Power Brand Center — 02/05/2013
  2. ICANN De-Accredits DomainMonger.com — 17/04/2013
  3. Temporary suspension of .TC, .GD and .VG from registration and update — 15/04/2013
  4. Why You Should Still Optimise Your Images for the Web — 01/04/2013
  5. Neustar increase dotBIZ prices to registrars — 03/03/2013

Author's posts listings

May 02

ICANN De-Accredits Power Brand Center

ICANN the managing authority for all gTLDs has removed the accreditation from Power Brand Center Corp. t/a Power Brand Center LLC [ www.powerbrandcenter.com ] (accredited since 27 April 2011). The termination is due to Power Brand’s failure to timely cure the policy breaches by 28 Feb 2013 as set forth in ICANN’s various notice of breach pursuant …

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Apr 17

ICANN De-Accredits DomainMonger.com

ICANN the managing authority for all gTLDs has removed the accreditation from Central Registrar, Inc. DBA Domainmonger.com (accredited since 4 October 2010). The termination is due to Domainmonger’s failure to timely cure the policy breaches by 1 February 2013 as set forth in ICANN’s notice of breach of RAA dated 11 January 2013. As of …

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Apr 15

Temporary suspension of .TC, .GD and .VG from registration and update

Due to continuing uncertainties regarding the administration and delegation of the ccTLDs: .TC .GD .VG we are temporarily unable to allow any modifications, registrations, transfers or renewals of domains of these ccTLDs. Currently, the resolution of existing registered domain names is not affected. We are awaiting the IANA (Internet Assigned Numbers Authority) decision over the …

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Apr 01

Why You Should Still Optimise Your Images for the Web

As a long established provider of UK Reseller Hosting we deal with lots of web designers. One thing that never fails to amaze us is the number of them who pay absolutely no attention to image optimisation – one of the core fundamentals of good website design.

Mar 03

Neustar increase dotBIZ prices to registrars

Neustar, the domain registry for the gTLD dotBIZ has announced a 10% price increase for all .biz domain name registrations, .biz domain name renewals and .biz domain name transfers effective from midnight 31st March 2013 Domain: .biz Astutium.com are an ICANN Accredited .BIZ Domain Registrar with the best value domain registration pricing in the UK. …

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Feb 14

Hosting.com rebrands to just Hosting

Genius idea or rebranding mistake ? According to a news piece on their website hosting.com have just rebranded to the shortened name of … Hosting When Overstock rebranded as O.CO I thought – yeah – I can see that working for them – especially as a lot of what they sell now isn’t overstock as …

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Feb 06

Joomla! vs WordPress – Our 2 most popular CMS Face-Off

At Astutium Web Hosting we regularly get asked which CMS customers should use. Our standard answer to this is “whichever one covers the functionality you need” More specifically our recommendation tends to be either WordPress or Joomla! for a variety of reasons … Both are : offered as standard on all our cpanel business hosting …

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May 21

DataCentre Annoyances – No Unpacking Facilities

Dedicated Build Room Unpacking Area

We spend a *lot* of time in datacentres – both our own for obvious reasons, and our other Points-of-Presence (PoPs) plus looking after 3rd-party installations at various other UK locations. Almost all the internet connectivity in the UK runs through Docklands – so all the better connected DC’s are here in E14 – and this …

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Apr 01

April Special Domain Registration Offers – 40% off .ORG and .PRO

At OthelloNames.net ICANN Accredited Domain Registrar, we have some special offers for April on domain names … 40% off all new .ORG Domain Registrations Beat the 1st May dotORG price increases by PIR (the .org registry) with our 40% off voucher TLDDOTORG to redeem at OthelloNames.net Domain Name Offers. Voucher valid for any new 1 …

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Jan 31

ICANN 2012 meeting 43 Costa Rica

Costa Rica has been chosen as the venue for ICANN Public Meeting #43. ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers), the non-profit entity coordinator of the Domain Name System, and it is estimated that ~1,500 of the highest authorities linked to the world of the Internet, will be participating in this meeting, including Othello …

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