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Afilias, which runs .info and provides registry services to a lot of other domains, has acquired the .mobi registry operator - mTLD Ltd.
The acquisition was officially announced on February 11th 2010, with both Afilias and mTLD releasing press releases etc., as well as a message to pass on to any registrants who might be concerned by the acquisition.
Is this good news or bad news?
I'd suspect that it's good news. It's certainly not bad!
It will be interesting to see what, if any, changes Afilias will bring to the .mobi namespace.
You can read the official announcement here
The acquisition was officially announced on February 11th 2010, with both Afilias and mTLD releasing press releases etc., as well as a message to pass on to any registrants who might be concerned by the acquisition.
Is this good news or bad news?
I'd suspect that it's good news. It's certainly not bad!
It will be interesting to see what, if any, changes Afilias will bring to the .mobi namespace.
You can read the official announcement here
I mentioned that dotMobi were planning to launch IDNs some time ago, but now they've announced a launch date.
By the looks of things dotMobi are planning for a nice media coup, as the launch of the sunrise period for IDN coincides with the ICANN meeting in Asia on October 19th 2009 at 4am UTC.
Unlike other IDN launches, dotMobi are being very specific about the launch and are only launching Chinese IDN for the Chinese market.
To make matters more "interesting", the entire offering will only be available in a "bundle" which includes a wireless keyboard that supports the IDN character set.
There will be two phases to the launch, a sunrise from October 29th until November 28th and then "general registration".
By the looks of things dotMobi are planning for a nice media coup, as the launch of the sunrise period for IDN coincides with the ICANN meeting in Asia on October 19th 2009 at 4am UTC.
Unlike other IDN launches, dotMobi are being very specific about the launch and are only launching Chinese IDN for the Chinese market.
To make matters more "interesting", the entire offering will only be available in a "bundle" which includes a wireless keyboard that supports the IDN character set.
There will be two phases to the launch, a sunrise from October 29th until November 28th and then "general registration".
Caroline Greer's latest post to the dotMobi blog includes a preview of some of the domains that are up for auction next month.
The auction, which will take place at T.R.A.F.F.I.C West in Las Vegas will be handled by Moniker
Some of the domains are sure to attract a lot of attention, as they include banks.mobi, cards.mobi, tickets.mobi and porn.mobi
So how much will they fetch?
Anyone want to hazard a guess?
The auction, which will take place at T.R.A.F.F.I.C West in Las Vegas will be handled by Moniker
Some of the domains are sure to attract a lot of attention, as they include banks.mobi, cards.mobi, tickets.mobi and porn.mobi
So how much will they fetch?
Anyone want to hazard a guess?
Domain pricing is always an emotive subject.
In recent discussions among Nominet members it came up as part of a discussion on drop-catching and domaining. Some people feel that the fees are too high, while others feel that they need to be increased significantly in order to discourage domainers.
Within the Irish internet community the upcoming change to policy regarding "personal domain names" has led to some discussion on how registrars set their pricing.
While at an ICANN level there's been a lot of mixed messages flying about.
For anyone interested in domains at any level it can all get a bit confusing.
So what exactly is going on?
ICANN announced a drop in their fees a few months ago. Several of the larger ICANN registrars passed on the savings directly to their clients, with some of them even refunding people.
Of course registrars can be a fickle bunch, so you may not always get the full picture.
Do the registrars pass on savings to their clients all the time?
In short - no.
Do registrars pass on costs to their client?
A lot of the time - yes.
So what costs are affecting registrars?
Both Verisign and Afflilias are upping their fees as of October 15
And some of the registrars will have to pass on those increases to their clients since their pricing has always been set with such a narrow margin.
Enom, for example, has already announced a 50 cent increase for all their resellers for com / net / org / info / biz / name and .us.
But what about .mobi?
From what I have been able to gather a lot of the registrars have been treating .mobi as some sort of "premium" domain name since its launch last year.
What does that mean?
Basically we've all been charged extra for the "honour" of registering the domains.
DotMobi domains are not manually checked, as is the case with say .ie domains, so there's no reason for charging a premium on them unless you want to do so as a marketing ploy.
Dotmobi, it transpires, are currently offering registrars promotional pricing on .mobi domains, but a lot of registrants will never see the full benefit of the pricing promotion as the registrars will be pocketing the profit.
If your registrar isn't offering any discount at present on dotmobi domains, then maybe you should ask them why....
In recent discussions among Nominet members it came up as part of a discussion on drop-catching and domaining. Some people feel that the fees are too high, while others feel that they need to be increased significantly in order to discourage domainers.
Within the Irish internet community the upcoming change to policy regarding "personal domain names" has led to some discussion on how registrars set their pricing.
While at an ICANN level there's been a lot of mixed messages flying about.
For anyone interested in domains at any level it can all get a bit confusing.
So what exactly is going on?
ICANN announced a drop in their fees a few months ago. Several of the larger ICANN registrars passed on the savings directly to their clients, with some of them even refunding people.
Of course registrars can be a fickle bunch, so you may not always get the full picture.
Do the registrars pass on savings to their clients all the time?
In short - no.
Do registrars pass on costs to their client?
A lot of the time - yes.
So what costs are affecting registrars?
Both Verisign and Afflilias are upping their fees as of October 15
And some of the registrars will have to pass on those increases to their clients since their pricing has always been set with such a narrow margin.
Enom, for example, has already announced a 50 cent increase for all their resellers for com / net / org / info / biz / name and .us.
But what about .mobi?
From what I have been able to gather a lot of the registrars have been treating .mobi as some sort of "premium" domain name since its launch last year.
What does that mean?
Basically we've all been charged extra for the "honour" of registering the domains.
DotMobi domains are not manually checked, as is the case with say .ie domains, so there's no reason for charging a premium on them unless you want to do so as a marketing ploy.
Dotmobi, it transpires, are currently offering registrars promotional pricing on .mobi domains, but a lot of registrants will never see the full benefit of the pricing promotion as the registrars will be pocketing the profit.
If your registrar isn't offering any discount at present on dotmobi domains, then maybe you should ask them why....
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