tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-56391295180700741182024-09-04T22:30:21.738+12:00News from the underbelly of .nzJulia Clementhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00484243389651191571noreply@blogger.comBlogger45125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5639129518070074118.post-17325913584932098192012-09-11T11:21:00.001+12:002012-09-11T11:55:06.495+12:00

The .kiwi.nz second level domain opened for registrations at 10am this morning and in the first fifteen minutes over 1000 names were registered. The total number of registered .nz domain names now exceeds 500,000 for the first time and Debbie Monahan, the Domain Name Commissioner, expressed delight at the half-million .nz registrations and .kiwi.nz launch, describing today as "a landmark day

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InternetNZ (Internet New Zealand Inc) has revealed that it has approved the creation of a new second level domain in the .nz domain name space - .kiwi.nz.This means that people will soon be able to register personalised domain names ending in .kiwi.nz. The implementation of .kiwi.nz is being managed by InternetNZ’s subsidiary company the Domain Name Commission Ltd. Authorised .nz registrars will

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The consultation on opening the .nz second level domain space to public registration has now been going for 2½ months and has just over 1 month to go. So far (assuming I've counted correctly) there have been 56 submissions published on the DNC website. I've read through all of them and there seems to be considerable support both for and against the proposal. I don't recall reading any well

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The Domain name commission has published a consultation paper on their plan to open public registrations at the .nz level. The paper and some expanatory background are on this page at their site. Consultation runs until the 27th of September (nearly 4 months). According to the DNS site the proposals include (Slightly edited from the DNC site): Registration of .nz domain names could be at the

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The consultation on this has ended. In the end there were 14 submissions ranging from strongly in favour to strongly opposed. I did think of summarising for the benefit of readers and may yet do this, but having read all the submissions there was such a total disconnect between those supporting and those opposing that I suspect that the DNC and InternetNZ will find it almost impossible to find

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Donald Clark, one of the InternetNZ councillors, but acting in his private capacity, has formally requested the creation of the second level domain name .kiwi.nz. Back in March I wrote the following to InternetNZ. "Under the current InternetNZ policy any suitable long lived community of interest can request a second level domain name be created. ""Kiwi" is a recognised informal demonym for

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In a society governed by the rule of law we all have to obey court orders, but under normal circumstances we can not be arbitrarily detained or have our property seized without a court order. There have been reports that some US based .com registrars will suspend domain names following a "request" from law enforcement officers without any form of judicial review. For example Techdirt recently

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Google have announced that they are closing Adsense For Domains, their domain parking solution. They've had a lot of complaints about running a domain parking service at all and although they have stared down those complaints, I guess this will make their life easier Their service has never really fired, it's always been the poor cousin of their other services and has never produced good results

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The Domain Name Commission has released their February newsletter with .nz domain name stats for January 2011. January saw 7423 new registrations with a net growth in .nz of 2729 compared with 7317 / 3161 for December 2010. It's easy to see this as New Zealand being on holiday in January, but when compared with the figures from last year where they were 6509 / 1949 in Dec 2009 and 7093 / 2931 in

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Following this week's major earthquake, a dedicated volunteer team of Internet people, web masters, programmers, and computer savvy helpers have built the Christchurch Earthquake Community Response site to coordinate help efforts. If you need help or can offer help, please go there.

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In the .NZ domain space, your domain registrations are passed through to the central registry that is managed by the New Zealand Registry Services (NZRS) company. NZRS has a main data centre and a hot spare in a geographically remote data centre. Their status page lists the main and hot spare as being up. If I recall correctly neither of these servers are in Christchurch. If your registrar goes

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In a press release, InternetNZ says: "InternetNZ (Internet New Zealand Inc) has today donated $50,000 to the New Zealand Red Cross in support of those affected by the Christchurch Earthquake. This is one step the organisation has taken, and there will be further action. It is clear that cash is needed right now and an immediate donation is one of the best ways to help, backing those

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In my previous post Cybersquatting court case NZ Post vs Yellow Pages I reported how a trademark and passing off case between the YP Group and New Zealand Post included some domain names. Last night in some informal discussions I was having before the Internet NZ members consultation meeting I heard from another interested watcher of the case that it had been settled out of court and the

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Update 25 February 2011 - I'm informed that the case has since been settled out of court.From the "I don't like you playing in my back yard" file. According to the Herald: "New Zealand Post's new directories business Localist is suing Yellow Pages Group over allegations Yellow breached the Fair Trading Act by buying up similar web addresses and Google adwords in a deliberate attempt to divert

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Interesting piece of chatter on the Internet NZ mail list today. Apparently the US government has seized a Spanish owned .ORG domain name, despite the Spanish courts having ruled that what the company owning the name is doing is perfectly legal under Spanish law. Long time readers of this and my other blogs will recall that I have long advocated owning the domain name with the extension most

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The Domain Name Commission (DNC) has announced a consultation on their Dispute Resolution Service that will run until the beginning of April this year.They are proposing three minor changesa change where the term Mediator will be defined,Increase the fee for Expert determination from $1800 to $2000 (+GST)Increase the fee for appeals of Expert determination from $6,600 to $7,200 (+GST)All fairly

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According to reports, the state privacy commissioner in Hamburg, Germany, has decided that Google Analytics should be illegal."The free internet service Google Analytics gathers detailed information about website visits via a user’s IP address, sending the data back to Google servers in the United States for processing. "According to the paper [Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung], Caspar and data

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I just wrote this at Digital Point forums in reply to a post "Domainers... do they make money?" This is a lightly edited version of my reply. It seemed too good to leave as a reply that will soon be buried in history so I've copied it here. Domaining isn't one business, it's several different businesses. Some domainers buy domains to use for the revenue they generate while held, some buy

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InternetNZ has announced a reduction of the wholesale fee for .nz domain names from NZ $ 1.50 + GST per month to $1.25 per month ($18 to $15 per annum per domain name) from 1 July 2010. The fee was last reduced in July 2007 and before that in July 2004. While there is no obligation on registrars to pass on the wholesale fee reduction to customers, InternetNZ President Frank March says he "

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Background As previously reported here and here the Domain Name Commission (DNC) has been preparing policies on introducing a limited set of international domain names (IDNs) to the .NZ space to allow the supporting of the Māori language language. This requires adding the 5 macronised vowels ā, ē, ī, ō and ū to the English alphabet. Policy They have now written and published the IDN Sunrise

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When I first started acquiring domain names back in 2005 I was approached by someone who'd been in the game a lot longer than me & one of the things he said was that over the years he'd seen a lot of people come into the game and drop out. He advised me that New Zealand domains are hard to market and I listened. I've never really tried actively marketing my portfolio, sure I occasionally get

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I pretty much dropped out of domaining during the worst of last year's recession and am only just starting to get back into it. For a while I thought I'd have to ditch a considerable percentage of the portfolio, but I just managed to keep it together and came out with the portfolio largely unscathed. Parking still doesn't pay very well and I still don't see myself back in domaining in the

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Memorable Domains in the UK has a page up of 100 Smart Companies that Understand the Concept of Generic Domain Names The list has 100 companies (mostly UK) and the generic domain name they use to promote themselves. Each of them has made good use of a generic domain name that exactly matches either their primary business, or one of their main products or services, and many of these are

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When and how should you buy an existing generic domain name for your business? In Branding on the Internet I discussed what you should call your web site, the short answer is it should match your business name, the longer answer is in that article. Part of the branding article was about using additional “Generic” or product related domain names for extra qualified leads to your web-site,

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Some top level domains (.com, .tv) allow people to register a name immediately before the top level domain. Other top level domains provide a restricted number of names immediately to the left of the top level domain such as .me.uk, .com.au, .co.nz and allow registration only at the third level. These limited number of second level names are known as second level domain names. Some registration

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