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Domains & DNS

IIA Offline – Esat Billing Issues

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The Irish Internet Association's website has been offline for most of today. Why? Well put simply the domain has vanished from DNS, so it's impossible for anyone to reach it. The domain is held by Esat's nameservers, but at some point in the last 24 hours someone removed it completely from their nameservers and as the IEDR's offices are closed today there is no way to move the … [Read more...] about IIA Offline – Esat Billing Issues

Putting the accent into .ie – Should IDN Be Allowed?

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IDN (internationalised domain names) was one of the hot topics at the last ICANN meeting in Lisbon. In Lisbon the discussions were quite complex, as they were discussing the scope of IDN withing gTLDs ie. domains that are completely international in their nature. When it comes to a ccTLD ie. one for a particular country a lot of the more "off the wall" topics can be safely … [Read more...] about Putting the accent into .ie – Should IDN Be Allowed?

EUrid at ICANN – Part Deux

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I posted very briefly about the EUrid session at ICANN last week and had promised a followup. When I posted last week the session had only started to warmup and I had no idea how it was going to develop. I don't think EUrid could have predicted it either. As the session progressed we heard presentations from various members of Eurid staff. Initially the session seemed to be … [Read more...] about EUrid at ICANN – Part Deux