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.mobi sunrise closed, landrush
about to begin
The .mobi
trademark sunrise period has now finished. The landrush period (open
registration) begins at 3pm (BST) on Tuesday 26 September. NetNames
is accepting applications for landrush now – please visit
www.netnames.com, or contact
your Platinum Account Manager.
27,000 .eu sunrise applications still being
processed
The status page at
http://status.eurid.eu suggests that some 27,000 .eu sunrise
applications are still being processed by the validation agent
PricewaterhouseCoopers and the registry operator EURid. In a news
article earlier on in the year, EURid stated that they hoped that
the bulk of the applications would be processed by the end of
September. At this stage approximately 8% of all the applications
are yet to be processed.
Only use trusted Whois LookupsNetNames advises that
potential domain registrants only use trusted Whois Lookups, such as
that which is available at
www.netnames.com. Some clients have made us aware that when
using Whois Lookups on other sites, the domain that they were
searching for has been registered by another party very shortly
afterwards, suggesting that their search was not secure.
In order to use the NetNames Whois Lookup facility to check the
availability of a domain name, visit
www.netnames.com and click the
"WHOIS" link towards the top right of the homepage.
ICANN still to be overseen by US Department of
Commerce
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN)
will continue to be overseen by the US Department of Commerce, it
was revealed few days ago. President and CEO of ICANN, John Twomey,
stated that the two bodies had entered into a five year extension of
the current arrangement.
This is a turnaround from the US government on
this issue - it has given the impression over the last few months
that it was considering bringing the
Internet’s overseeing body under the management of the public or
private sector.
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