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Alexa Raad has announced that she will be leaving PIR at the end of next month to "seek new challenges".
In a press release issued yesterday the registry operator highlighted some of the achievements under Ms Raad's leadership, such as the growth of the registration base and the deployment of DNSSEC.
Maarten Botterman will be interim CEO while the registry seeks a replacement for Ms Raad.
PIR, the registry operator for .org, has relaunched their website.
The new site is currently "beta", though that seems like an odd way to label a public-facing site that has been live for years ..
The area that interests me, of course, is the registrar list .. And I'm not overly impressed with the way it displays..
PIR, which is behind the .org (dotOrg) registry, has issued a call for statements of interest from people interested in joining their board.
According to the announcement on the ISOC site PIR is looking for two directors for the period covering July 2010 to July 2013.
Full details of what they're looking for and the application process may be found here
While the announcement does go into plenty of detail about what is required, it's a bit lacking in terms of compensation details.
Are PIR board members renumerated?
Presumably the expenses associated with travelling to the various meetings are covered, but again, there are no details.
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According to the announcement on the ISOC site PIR is looking for two directors for the period covering July 2010 to July 2013.
Full details of what they're looking for and the application process may be found here
While the announcement does go into plenty of detail about what is required, it's a bit lacking in terms of compensation details.
Are PIR board members renumerated?
Presumably the expenses associated with travelling to the various meetings are covered, but again, there are no details.
PIR, the organisation behind .org (dotOrg), has released its first biannual domain report - The Dashboard.
The report, which runs to 10 pages, goes into detail on the type of websites that opt for .org as their domain extension. Not surprisingly a lot of non-profit or non-commercial sites are using .org.
What's also interesting to see, and will come as positive news to industry insiders, is that registrations have continued to grow even while global economies have faltered.
PIR are reporting an 11% growth in registrations, which is very positive news indeed.
Press release and report are available on the PIR site.
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The report, which runs to 10 pages, goes into detail on the type of websites that opt for .org as their domain extension. Not surprisingly a lot of non-profit or non-commercial sites are using .org.
What's also interesting to see, and will come as positive news to industry insiders, is that registrations have continued to grow even while global economies have faltered.
PIR are reporting an 11% growth in registrations, which is very positive news indeed.
Press release and report are available on the PIR site.
The new TLD process is occupying a lot of people in the domain name industry at present.
While some people are obviously very much against the entire concept of new TLDs, there are plenty of people and organisations who support the project.
But what happens when you have more than one organisation vying for the same namespace?
While the ICANN new TLD application process itself has its own way of dealing with competing bids there's nothing to stop the interested parties in "duking it out" in public.
Seemingly the competition between two rival bids for .eco (doteco) has been getting more than a little dirty in the past few weeks.
Earlier this evening Dot Eco LLC, which is backed by Al Gore, the Sierra Club, the Alliance for Climate Protection and Surfrider Foundation, issued what they called an "open examination" of the competing bids. Anyone reading it would be excused for seeing it as a gauntlet being thrown by Dot Eco LLC in the face of Big Room's competing bid - and its partner Afilias.
The document, which runs to 17 pages, makes for interesting reading and examines the credentials of both bids, while also questioning the viability and chances of success of the rival bid.
For example, the economic analysis draws on the financials of PIR, which runs .org. PIR uses Afilias to run their backend, so it would not be unreasonable to assume that any arrangements Afilias has made with that registry would be emulated with others.
Of course this is a theory - not fact, but it is one that has been logically argued and demonstrated using data based on existing TLDs.
Having said that, Dot Eco LLC have been very open about the costs they will face from their chosen backend provider - Minds and Machines.
Minds and Machines have, in turn, also made a public commitment to "going green" and will also be incentivising their registrar partners to adopt "green" policies.
Have Afilias done anything similar?
While the public catfight between the two competing bids may be interesting to watch as it plays out it does, from an observer's perspective, raise a couple of interesting issues.
Presuming that other strings are going to be as attractive as .eco is for the two rivals mentioned (and without even mentioning the potential bid for .green), can expect to see a certain degree of this sort of mudslinging between future rival bids?
If some of the new TLD bids are going to have "agendas" attached to them, will they be viable or will we end up with a bunch of tiny namespaces that nobody uses or really cares about?
While it is clear that not all TLD projects are motivated purely by economics a lot of them will have taken on outside investors. If the investors do not get some form of return, will they walk away?
In many respects this kind of public catfight could act as just the first sign of worse to come.
While some people are obviously very much against the entire concept of new TLDs, there are plenty of people and organisations who support the project.
But what happens when you have more than one organisation vying for the same namespace?
While the ICANN new TLD application process itself has its own way of dealing with competing bids there's nothing to stop the interested parties in "duking it out" in public.
Seemingly the competition between two rival bids for .eco (doteco) has been getting more than a little dirty in the past few weeks.
Earlier this evening Dot Eco LLC, which is backed by Al Gore, the Sierra Club, the Alliance for Climate Protection and Surfrider Foundation, issued what they called an "open examination" of the competing bids. Anyone reading it would be excused for seeing it as a gauntlet being thrown by Dot Eco LLC in the face of Big Room's competing bid - and its partner Afilias.
The document, which runs to 17 pages, makes for interesting reading and examines the credentials of both bids, while also questioning the viability and chances of success of the rival bid.
For example, the economic analysis draws on the financials of PIR, which runs .org. PIR uses Afilias to run their backend, so it would not be unreasonable to assume that any arrangements Afilias has made with that registry would be emulated with others.
Of course this is a theory - not fact, but it is one that has been logically argued and demonstrated using data based on existing TLDs.
Having said that, Dot Eco LLC have been very open about the costs they will face from their chosen backend provider - Minds and Machines.
Minds and Machines have, in turn, also made a public commitment to "going green" and will also be incentivising their registrar partners to adopt "green" policies.
Have Afilias done anything similar?
While the public catfight between the two competing bids may be interesting to watch as it plays out it does, from an observer's perspective, raise a couple of interesting issues.
Presuming that other strings are going to be as attractive as .eco is for the two rivals mentioned (and without even mentioning the potential bid for .green), can expect to see a certain degree of this sort of mudslinging between future rival bids?
If some of the new TLD bids are going to have "agendas" attached to them, will they be viable or will we end up with a bunch of tiny namespaces that nobody uses or really cares about?
While it is clear that not all TLD projects are motivated purely by economics a lot of them will have taken on outside investors. If the investors do not get some form of return, will they walk away?
In many respects this kind of public catfight could act as just the first sign of worse to come.
John McCormac has been collecting and processing statistics on domain registrations and hosting for as long as I can remember. He is probably best known for Hackwatch and WhoisIreland, which produces monthly reports for the Irish hosting and domain industry.
John's latest project has been in development for several months and offers an alternative to some of the existing domain statistics sites already on the market.
What makes it different is that HosterStats cares about ccTLD data.
Sites like WebHosting.info and DomainTools all but ignore ccTLD data and give a rather skewed perspective of non-US based providers.
With Hosterstats you can easily check the DNS history on any .com/.net/org/info/mobi/eu/asia/co.uk or .ie domain name.
While the site isn't the prettiest at present it is incredibly functional and nice and fast to load, so you get the information that you want quickly and easily.
It will be interesting to see what John plans on adding in terms of features in the coming weeks and months.
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John's latest project has been in development for several months and offers an alternative to some of the existing domain statistics sites already on the market.
What makes it different is that HosterStats cares about ccTLD data.
Sites like WebHosting.info and DomainTools all but ignore ccTLD data and give a rather skewed perspective of non-US based providers.
With Hosterstats you can easily check the DNS history on any .com/.net/org/info/mobi/eu/asia/co.uk or .ie domain name.
While the site isn't the prettiest at present it is incredibly functional and nice and fast to load, so you get the information that you want quickly and easily.
It will be interesting to see what John plans on adding in terms of features in the coming weeks and months.
The announcements by Verisign, PIR and Afilias of price increases in com,net,org and .info shouldn't really come as a surprise to anyone.
However if the year on year price increases do leave an interesting question - is there an upper ceiling?
Will the next price increase have a negative impact on some of the low cost registrars? (The last one didn't seem to have much impact)
What, if anything, are the registries doing to earn the extra fees?
In the case of .org their implementation of DNSSEC may bring about greater stability and security, but what of the other registry operators?
Are their costs increasing?
Verisign would like us to believe that their price increases reflect their ongoing investment in stability and scale, but do the end users really get to see any benefits?
The case of .info, however, is slightly different. Price increases in .info may actually help the public's perception of the TLD, though this will only really work if the increases are uniform and not diluted by promotional pricing.
However if the year on year price increases do leave an interesting question - is there an upper ceiling?
Will the next price increase have a negative impact on some of the low cost registrars? (The last one didn't seem to have much impact)
What, if anything, are the registries doing to earn the extra fees?
In the case of .org their implementation of DNSSEC may bring about greater stability and security, but what of the other registry operators?
Are their costs increasing?
Verisign would like us to believe that their price increases reflect their ongoing investment in stability and scale, but do the end users really get to see any benefits?
The case of .info, however, is slightly different. Price increases in .info may actually help the public's perception of the TLD, though this will only really work if the increases are uniform and not diluted by promotional pricing.
The management team behind PIR (dotOrg) have a blog.
Although there are only a couple of articles on there at present hopefully they'll be adding more content over the coming weeks and months.
Although there are only a couple of articles on there at present hopefully they'll be adding more content over the coming weeks and months.
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