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Should IEDR Reassess Its Rules?

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IEDR unlike Nominet does not have a democratic structure, nor does it have committees or other organisms to oversee rules, regulations and many other aspects of the registry's development. Who is even on the board of the IEDR? Who chooses the board members? While personally I think this should all be addressed I have to admit that some areas of the registry's activities are … [Read more...] about Should IEDR Reassess Its Rules?

Controlling the Sidebar in K2

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I've been trying to get the k2 theme to "play nice" with me, but have met with little success. Whether this is due to me attempting this late at night when I should know better, or simply my lack of php skill is open to debate. A bit of digging around led me to a nice little plugin for k2 which gives idiots like me a bit more control over what appears in the sidebar on which … [Read more...] about Controlling the Sidebar in K2

iPod Nano Wins

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Prior to the Blog Awards I took delivery of an iPod Nano to give to the winner. At the time I was sorely tempted to get a nano for myself, but I resisted.. at least for a while Anyhow my personal iPod Nano arrived on Friday afternoon. It was shipped from Hong Kong, as I had it etched with the Blacknight Logo. It looks kind of like this: Unfortunately I couldn't get the text … [Read more...] about iPod Nano Wins

Whois vs DAS

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One of the few things that Eurid seem to have done properly is providing a DAS server to supplement whois lookups. While a whois query on a .eu domain will return none too verbose results the das query is simplistic: whois -h das.eu:4343 get 1.0 mneylon % .eu Domain Availability Server 1.0 % % (c) 2005 (http://www.eurid.eu) % %% RC = 0 Domain: mneylon Status: REGISTERED No … [Read more...] about Whois vs DAS