Rob Golding Internet Entrepreneur Member of multipe ICANN Working Groups - fighting for domain registrants rights Expert Witness on IT for UK Courts
Rob Golding
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Dec 24 2023
Christmas and New Year 2023-2024 Opening Hours
Our Support and Network Operations Teams will be continuing to work 24 / 7 / 365 as usual – managing and monitoring all the datacentre, network, servers, managed systems and automation services. The Administrative staff will be taking a break over the Christmas and New Year period. Astutium Ltd will be operating a reduced Sales …
Permanent link to this article: https://blog.astutium.com/2023/12/christmas-and-new-year-2023-2024-opening-hours/
Mar 07 2022
.BEST gTLD and BestTLD Pty Ltd. New company ? Old tricks !
We’ve been contacted by the “new” operators of the .BEST #newTLD in relation to our dropping of a pointless waste-of-internet-resources TLD from 2014. In their email they claim: THE BEST SAS, our French company … operates now the .Best since 3+ years, is daily fighting against spams and of course has nothing to do with …
Permanent link to this article: https://blog.astutium.com/2022/03/dot-best-gtld-claims-changed-but-have-they-really/
Jul 11 2020
Major Engineering Works – DataCentre Power Upgrade/Replacement
Possible outages – details at Major Engineering Works – Services at Risk
Permanent link to this article: https://blog.astutium.com/2020/07/major-engineering-works-datacentre-power-upgrade-replacement/
Mar 13 2020
COVID-19 and Astutium At-Office and On-Site Meetings
Whilst we are (usually) quite happy to receive clients, suppliers and industry colleagues in person at our locations in London, we have always preferred pre-arrangement as it enables the appropriate team members to be made available – plus given enough advance-notice I might even be able to get some biscuits in 🙂 With reference to …
Permanent link to this article: https://blog.astutium.com/2020/03/covid-19-and-astutium-at-office-and-on-site-meetings/
Mar 13 2020
COVID-19 and Astutium Event Attendance
My highest priority is always to ensure the security, safety and general well-being of all the in-office, on-site and remote-working staff. With reference to the global concern regarding the COVID-19 outbreak, the following measures are being taken to protect our team members (and the other attendees) at all events we were scheduled or planning to …
Permanent link to this article: https://blog.astutium.com/2020/03/covid-19-and-astutium-event-attendance/
Dec 23 2019
Christmas and New Year 2019-2020 Opening Hours
The Support and Network Operations Teams will be continuing to work 24 / 7 / 365 as usual, managing and monitoring all the datacentre, network, servers, managed systems and automation services. Our Administrative staff will be taking a break over the Christmas and New Year period. Astutium Ltd will be operating a reduced Sales and …
Permanent link to this article: https://blog.astutium.com/2019/12/christmas-and-new-year-2019-2020-opening-hours/
Feb 06 2019
NamesCon 2019 Keynote Roundup Trends Report
The Annual NamesCon US/Global conference has drawn to a close. Attendees are all back at work, hopefully fired up on what they learned, working with new partners/colleagues and using/selling those domains they bought in the 2M$+ live auction and 1M$ of side-room deals ! If you were unable to attend the latest NamesCon Las Vegas …
Permanent link to this article: https://blog.astutium.com/2019/02/namescon-2019-keynote-roundup-trends-report/
Jan 10 2019
NamesCon Global 2019
NamesCon is the main USA annual industry conference (and trade show) about domain name investing for registrars/resellers and domainers As at 6th January 2019 there are still Discounted Tickets available for NamesCon Global 2019 (Las Vegas) Astutium, BrandBlazer and HandPicked.domains staff will be in attendance – if you’d like to schedule a meeting to discuss …
Permanent link to this article: https://blog.astutium.com/2019/01/namescon-global-2019/
Dec 24 2018
Christmas and New Year 2018-2019 Opening Hours
The Support and Network Operations Teams will be continuing to work 24 / 7 / 365 as usual, taking care of the datacentre, network, servers, managed systems and automated systems, the administrative staff will be taking breaks over the Christmas and New Year period. Astutium Ltd will be operating a reduced Sales and Accounts Team …
Permanent link to this article: https://blog.astutium.com/2018/12/christmas-and-new-year-2018-2019-opening-hours/
Feb 02 2018
2017 dotUK Renewals Report Published
The latest edition of the Nominet Business Intelligence reports have been issued, which show the Registrations, Renewals and Transfers [growth and loss] of the .UK domain name market, and compare a registrar to the average for the registry overall. Who wants be below-average or even just-average ? Not us 🙂 It’s always nice to see …
Permanent link to this article: https://blog.astutium.com/2018/02/2017-dotuk-renewals-report-published/