ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) has terminated Red Register Inc.’s accreditation, 26/September/2009
Due to multiple breaches of their Registrar Agreement Continue reading
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Mar 29 2009
Business Startup Show 28/29 May 2009 Excel London – Astutium Stand 240
Astutium Ltd thank all the visitors to our stand at the Business Startup Show 2009.
We had a great couple of days and are pleased to announce we raised £115 for the Wear it Pink Breast Cancer Campaign.
If you received one of our vouchers at the show for a 100% completely free domain name, please remember to register it before the 31st July at Astutium Domain Name Registration
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Jan 29 2009
120 New Domain Types – what are they all for ?
2009 will see an explosion of new gTLD’s appearing (or at least planned) after proposals under the new ICANN guidelines – ICANN New gTLD Program – relaxed a number of the constraints.
First up already announced is .paris … a city with it’s own domain type …
Expect hundreds if not thousands more sponsored gTLDs (sTLDs) to follow
Permanent link to this article: https://blog.astutium.com/2009/01/120-new-domain-types-what-are-they-all-for/
Jan 19 2009
GoDaddy Shuts Down “Dodgy Tactics” Division
Standard Tactics LLC, a hidden/shell company owned by registrar GoDaddy is set to close.
After all the hypocrasy of Bob Parsons, CEO of GD, complaining about domain tasting and kiting, yet running his own domain tasting/cybersquatting company, GoDaddy have finally announced that their sub-company “Standard Tactics LLC” is closing, after numerous trademark infringement cases for cybersquatting.
Whilst this can only be good news for domain purchasers (for actual use or search engine spam or whatever) it’s still not a complete clean-up of their act as a registry/registrar.
If a domain is not renewed, which had previously been registered by GD, and that domain has any sort of “residual” traffic or backlinks – they’re listing them for sale @ $300+ on TDNAM the GoDaddy owned domain aftermarket – rather than release them !
Up until recently, TDNAM had also come under heavy criticism after it was discovered that their own “VP of Aftermarket Sales” was caught bidding against his own clients to shill-bid up the price on 2ndary domains – GD have now issued a “policy” preventing staff bidding against clients on behalf of the company – a practice illegal on auctions in the US – it would be like ebay knowing yor max bid and always forcing you to pay it !
Permanent link to this article: https://blog.astutium.com/2009/01/godaddy-shuts-down-%e2%80%9cdodgy-tactics%e2%80%9d-division/
Jan 01 2009
Astutium Assigned IANA No. 1471
As part of the preparation for the launch of Astutium ICANN Accredited Domain Registry we have been assigned our official IANA Registrar Number #1471
Permanent link to this article: https://blog.astutium.com/2009/01/stutium-assigned-iana-no-1471/
Jan 01 2009
The Spammers Choice – Top 3 Registrars Used By Junk Mailers Are …
All are located in China !
- Xinnet Bei Gon Da Software
- BEIJING Networks
- Todaynic
And joining the top 3, with guest appearances in the top 25 registrars of spamvertised domains and spammer friendly registrars are:
- Xiamen Ename (ENAME.CN)
- Beijing Innovative Linkage (DNS.COM.CN)
- OnlineNIC (CHINA-CHANNEL.COM)
- HiChina Web Solutions (NET.CN)
- BIZCN.COM
Perhaps if the Great Firewall of China was setup to stop things leaving rather than getting in,
the internet in general and mail in particular would be a safer and more productive place.
For more information about these scum visit knujon registrar listings
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Nov 13 2008
Blog To Podcast Widget
Found a fantastic little plugin for WordPress which reads your blog entries by TTS (text-to-speech) and is remarkably accurate.
The Odigo – Voice Your Content plugin provides you with mp3, online audio and best of all, a link to send it to your itunes account, for adding to your ipod.
Permanent link to this article: https://blog.astutium.com/2008/11/blog-to-podcast-widget/
Nov 13 2008
Popping Out For A Mex ICANN …
The next ICANN (34) public meeting has been announced – it will be held in Mexico city between 1st and 6th March 2009.
The icann 34 meeting is now online with information on the host, the venue and the meeting.
As a new member, Othello will be attending to have our say in how the domain industry moves forward and is regulated.
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Aug 18 2008
DC-Domains.com merged into Astutium
As part of our process to continually improve our products and services and extend the range of solutions availble, DC-Domains.com has merged into Astutium Ltd !
We have today completed our migration from the our dc-domains system into the new Client Portal and Domain Management systems which you can find at Astutium Client Portal
The new system provides you with all the existing features and…
- 80 additional domain types to register
- cleaner interface for viewing the domain details
- removal of the mandatory domain-credits purchase step
- more options for transferring in your domains from other registrars
- cheaper pricing
Your existing dcd login email and password will continue to work, please take a moment to verify your contact information and update as necessary.
Additional features will be coming soon, including bulk registrations, drop-catching, and more.
If you have any questions or problems, please create a ticket at our online support system Astutium Client Portal and a member of our Domains Team will investigate for you.
Permanent link to this article: https://blog.astutium.com/2008/08/dc-domains-com-merged-into-astutium/
Jun 20 2008
UKDNR Scammers target .uk domain registrants
A ressurgence of an age-old domain name sales scam has started again, with scammers UKDNR (calling themselves “Domain Name Registrar”) are telephoning .uk and .com registrants, with a high-pressure sales tactic based on the false claim that someone is attempting to register domain names similar to yours, then offering to register them ahead of this fictitious 3rd party at a vastly inflated price.
Anyone receiving unsolicited sales calls regarding domain names and hosting should regard such calls as fraudulent, and under no circumstances should you give these scum your credit-card details.
If you want to buy additional domain names, always use a reputable domain registrar, accredited for the domain TLD you’re interested in, like Othello Technology Systems Ltd at www.OthelloNames.net an ICANN Accredited Domain Registrar
See Domain name sales scam for the official Nominet statement.
Permanent link to this article: https://blog.astutium.com/2008/06/ukdnr-scammers-target-uk-domain-registrants/