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New Regime for Registration of .fr

• Comment posted Mar 05, 2004 10:52 am PST — by Michele Neylon
  This sounds very similar to the way the .it registry is handled. What I would find to be a matter of concern is the handling of trademarks and copyright. Have they some form of dispute policy in place?

Ireland's .ie To Come Under Government Control

• Comment posted Apr 29, 2004 11:42 pm PDT — by Michele Neylon
  John Although I can appreciate some of your concerns I would be very cautious about welcoming the move to comreg. As a government body they are yet to have any significant impact on any of the industries that they regulate.…

ICANN Starts IPv6 Ball Rolling

• Comment posted Jul 28, 2004 8:11 am PDT — by Michele Neylon
  IPv6 is definitely the way forward. Although it will probably take another 5 years before it is adopted by commercial ISPs a number of the Irish universities have already deployed it internally.

ICANN Transfer Policy: Domain Hijacking Got Easier or Did It?

• Comment posted Nov 12, 2004 1:12 am PST — by Michele Neylon
  What I would be very concerned about is the likes of DROA. As things stand "companies" like them tend to prey on the not so technically literate clients. What will happen now? Will we see a situation where more of…

IETF Publishes RFCs on SPF and Sender ID

• Comment posted Jul 06, 2005 6:50 pm PDT — by Michele Neylon
  What is confusing me is that the "help" page on Microsoft.com points to information on SPF, so what is the actual difference, if any, between them? Or is there even a difference worth talking about?

The "Parked Domain Monetization" Business

• Comment posted Dec 08, 2005 1:35 am PST — by Michele Neylon
  It's a very sticky issue. We probably all have clients who speculate in domain "monetisation" and considering that .eu was launched today it is a very topical point. If you look at some of the current entries in the queue…

The Problem With Wikis

• Comment posted Dec 06, 2005 8:20 pm PST — by Michele Neylon
  Although I find that wikis can be extremely useful they seem to have been adopted by a lot of organisations without any real thought of the implications. If email spam and blog comment spam wasn't bad enough, having to contend…

She Gave Me a Fake Phone Number!

• Comment posted Dec 15, 2005 9:46 pm PST — by Michele Neylon
  I would think that the figures are significantly higher. The methodology employed in this "study" seems to be flawed in my opinion. I posted on this at my blog The phishers are the more visible infringers, but they are anything…

EURid Tightens Control on .eu Domain Names

• Comment posted Jan 25, 2007 11:36 am PST — by Michele Neylon
  I can't see how it can keep squatters off there, as you still would have to go to ADR. It seems to be aimed more at abusers…

• Comment posted Jan 24, 2007 6:50 pm PST — by Michele Neylon
  Anything that improves the perception of .eu and Eurid is welcome, but it maybe a little too late

IE Namespace: We Need Personal Domains!

• Comment posted Jan 26, 2007 6:58 pm PST — by Michele Neylon
  Simon The wholesale prices have dropped by 50% over the past 4 years, so you will find IE domains retailing from as low as EUR30 to as high as EUR120, while the registry themselves sell the domains for EUR69 (see…

• Comment posted Jan 26, 2007 6:53 pm PST — by Michele Neylon
  Jothan Compared to some of the ccTLDs I've had to deal with over the last couple of years the IEDR is not the worst by a long shot :) They have given us access to an API to submit applications…

IP Address Intelligence Burdening Content Providers with Regional Laws?

• Comment posted Feb 07, 2007 7:59 pm PST — by Michele Neylon
  Susan We use geolocation for two things: 1 - Email filtering (see http://www.mneylon.com/blog/archives... ) 2 - Fraud prevention I've come across a number of sites that use geolocation to serve up targetted content, but I've also come across sites that…

Irish Government To Kill IE ccTLD?

• Comment posted Feb 26, 2007 11:54 pm PST — by Michele Neylon
  dahamsta - that was my thinking as well. While I can appreciate that a national government would wish to have some oversight on the ccTLD there are some aspects of the legislation that go beyond mere oversight, which is one…

ICANN Asked to Adopt Specific TLD for Banks

• Comment posted Apr 02, 2007 11:40 pm PDT — by Michele Neylon
  I can see both sides of this argument. We deal with end users every single day, so I can fully understand why people would be so sceptical of a new TLD for financial institutions. Most end users would not be…

.COM and .NET: Thick Or Thin?

• Comment posted Apr 02, 2007 11:30 pm PDT — by Michele Neylon
  Gavin At least I'm not losing my mind (though after last week I'm sure I lost a few brain cells). From what I can gather the registrants that opted for Registerfly's privacy service are going to have to prove that…

• Comment posted Apr 02, 2007 10:10 pm PDT — by Michele Neylon
  Gavin Sorry if this is a really dumb question, but what about domains with "whois privacy"? In a thick registry is the "real" data held by the registry or the registrar? I was under the impression that it was held…

Getting WHOIS Server Address Directly from Registry

• Comment posted Apr 22, 2007 2:57 pm PDT — by Michele Neylon
  Unfortunately jwhois does not work with a lot of the ccTLDs - I've been trying it :)

• Comment posted Apr 20, 2007 12:31 pm PDT — by Michele Neylon
  It would help if more of the ccTLDs provided some form of CLIbased whois or at least a DAS check.

IPv6 for the Rest of Us

• Comment posted Jun 05, 2007 1:32 pm PDT — by Michele Neylon
  If ARIN policed their IPv4 space more carefully they wouldn't have as many issues with IP space ....

Canadians Now Pay for Different Levels of Internet Speeds

• Comment posted Jun 14, 2007 7:14 pm PDT — by Michele Neylon
  It sounds like the Canadian ISPs are going to have adopt similar pricing models to those used in Europe.

EU NameSpace is Dead?

• Comment posted Jul 17, 2007 11:30 pm PDT — by Michele Neylon
  Dirk - Active usage of .eu is probably the way to drive it forward Frank - I'd have to disagree with you in some parts and agree with you in others. With regard to national identity - you're 100% right.…

ICANN Investigating Domain Tasting

• Comment posted Aug 14, 2007 3:26 pm PDT — by Michele Neylon
  Bradley Part of the issue is the cost of taking a UDRP. It's prohibitive for smaller businesses compared to the costs of a DRS with Nominet, for example Michele

Domain Management White Paper

• Comment posted Nov 08, 2007 1:47 am PST — by Michele Neylon
  Patrick It's on the main page on the right if you follow the link in the article Regards Michele

North Dakota Judge Gets it Wrong

• Comment posted Jan 16, 2008 11:35 pm PST — by Michele Neylon
  I had to check the date after reading this. It sounds like a bad April's Fool. So basically if you have servers in Dakota you might want to move them!

Launch of .PARIS

• Comment posted Jul 01, 2008 12:25 pm PDT — by Michele Neylon
  Antony The event in Hotel de Ville was very badly organised and the PA system wasn't setup properly. I think they adjusted the volume levels etc., shortly after the mayor made his announcement. I don't think people were being rude…

Study Finds 75% of Malicious Websites from Legitimate, Trusted Sources

• Comment posted Jul 29, 2008 6:28 pm PDT — by Michele Neylon
  It's not that surprising. Most of the phishing attacks we see on our network would be via compromised websites. The number of actual pure phishing sites is minimal

ICANN Faces Questions on Accountability and Outside Takeover

• Comment posted Oct 01, 2008 11:25 pm PDT — by Michele Neylon
  Wasn't there a letter to ICANN recently from the US Dept. of Commerce clearly indicating that they had zero intention of cutting them loose?