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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Oct 30 2013
Hosted MineCraft Server 1.7.2 Now Available at Astutium
Minecraft 1.7.2 server released and ready to use… The latest official release of Minecraft (1.7.2) is out now and available on all Astutium Hosted MineCraft Servers. MC172 includes all updates from MC17 and MC171. Existing clients can upgrade in 30 seconds through the minecraft multicraft control panel Stop Server Pick 1.7.2 from the list of …
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Oct 13 2013
DotGreen Community Inc pull out of New GTLD Application for .green
DotGreen Community Inc. have decided to pull out of the running for the contended (multiple applicant) new gtld .GREEN. Ultimately it simply boils down to not having (or not wanting to spend) enough money – something affecting a number of gtld applicants – as it’s always been known that contended strings will go to the …
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Oct 05 2013
FAQoTW: How do I add my Logo to the WebSite Builder
At Astutium we’re constantly extending our documentation, examples, knowledgebase and tutorials – this benefits our clients by providing instant answers and self-help training. Most Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) are answered in our Extensive Knowledgebase or shown as examples in our Online Video Tutorials. One of the questions we get asked quite frequently is “How do …
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Sep 19 2013
Aye Aye Me Hearties – Free Doubloons and Arrrf-Price at Astutium.com
Shiver me timbers it’s 19/September again time for all Gentlemen o’ Fortune to claim some Booty 🙂 So Belay that hosting order Ye Landlubbers and Smartly turn Ye Furner to astutium.com Astutium have 8 pieces of gold (yes, real 24k gold 1/10 gram bars) to giveaway, and 50% off all new orders on 19/Sept/2013 To …
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Sep 10 2013
New TLD .africa.com now available for registrations at astutium.com
Great news ! Astutium Ltd are now an accredited registrar for the new .africa.com subdomains The latest CentralNIC TLD .africa.com is now available for registration at the Astutium Domain Registration website Unlike most African ccTLDs, .africa.com is open to all registrants – providing opportunity to target global citizens wishing to connect with Africa as well …
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Aug 20 2013
FAQoTW: HELP! My WordPress Web Site has been Hacked AGAIN
A distraught wordpress hosting client contacted us this week because recently they’d been told their website was no longer working – instead, visitors to the site saw an image extolling some activist group support by a hacker. The client (prior contacting us) simply deleted the hacked post, and had spent a further 2 days working on their site, when …
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Aug 11 2013
Swedish Registry (dotSE) takes over running .nu (dotNU) ccTLD
At the end of August 2013 the Swedish Registry IIS.SE will take over the running of the registry services for .nu from WorldNames. All currently registered .nu domain names will be managed by IIS who already operate the registry for .se New domain registrations, transfers, renewals and updates for .NU will continue to be available …
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Aug 05 2013
NameSpace Collisions de-railing new gTLDS
August 5 2013 ICANN published the results of a study examining the consequences of ‘name space collisions’ between applied-for and non-delegated Top Level Domains. http://www.icann.org/en/news/announcements/announcement-3-05aug13-en.htm Details and the public comment information can be found at http://www.icann.org/en/news/public-comment/name-collision-05aug13-en.htm The study divided strings into three categories based on risk: Low risk Uncalculated risk High risk Two TLDs come …
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Jun 27 2013
What are BitCoins and Why Should I Care ?
Astutium Ltd were the first ICANN Accredited Domain Registrar to accept the Digital Cryto-Currency “BitCoins” (accepted since Dec 2012 – simply select Bitcoin/BitPay as the payment gateway at the end of the checkout process). We’re proud to take bitcoins in exchange for domains, hosting, virtual/dedicated servers, minecraft gaming servers and colocation – the internet is …
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May 23 2013
ICANN De-Accredits Dotted Ventures (IANA#833)
ICANN the managing authority for all gTLDs has removed the accreditation from Dotted Ventures Inc. (Dotted Ventures) [ www.dottedventures.com ] (accredited since 7 December 2009). The termination is due to Dotted Ventures’s failure to timely cure the policy breaches by 14 May 2013 as set forth in ICANN’s various notice of breach pursuant to Section 3.9 of …
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