Industry Watch

We’ve gotten a few invitations to apply to be a .ME top-level domain registrar, to which we assigned no urgency after we took a straw poll internally and found that pretty well zero of our customers were asking for it. Today, Techcrunch reports that the .ME landrush, at least through one large operator, had degraded […]

A number of our customers who maintain their own mailservers have called reporting issues with the delivery of their email in the last 24 hours. If you are experiencing something similar, please ensure that you are not using the ORDB anti-spam list. The ORDB anti-spam list was shut down in December 2006, and in an […]

OpenDNS is an enhanced DNS resolver open to the public (as of today) and free to use. It contains a number of enhancements such as typo correction and phishing protection. It is also fully configurable for the end users, so individual features can be turned off at the users’ discretion. I’ve also posted a comment […]

There has been a remarkable lack of chatter today around domain policy circles, given the rather stunning announcement out of china that starting tomorrow, China will be launching its own Top Level Domain roots for the .COM, .NET TLDs so that “[Chinese] Internet users don’t have to surf the Web via the servers under the […]

An interesting turn of events surfaced over the weekend with AOL and Yahoo’s announced plans to charge a fraction of a cent for “preferred delivery” of email. Both companies will still accept unpaid email, but by paying the charges, senders will be able to bypass inbound spam filters and have their mail delivered directly to […]

I’ve seen several references to the firm that wants to get rid of net suffixes over the weekend, and at the risk of sounding like a stuffy curmudgeon I have to state my suspicion that it is at least partially attributable to a “slow technews weekend” after the US Thanksgiving. From monday morning’s vantage point […]