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NL Registry Introduces Phishing Alert Service

By Michele Neylon on February 15, 2010 10:15 AM | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)

SIDN, the registry operator for .nl, has announced the introduction of a new service for its registrars. The new phishing alert service harnesses data provided by Netcraft and will automatically email the registrar of record of any .nl domain name that is flagged as being used in a phishing attack.

Every five minutes or so, SIDN checks Netcraft's suspect URL database,
which is constantly being updated. Every time a .nl URL is added to the
database, an e-mail message is automatically sent to the relevant
registrar's administrative contact e-mail address. In other words, the
system does not rely on periodic reporting, but on almost immediate
individualised e-mail contact. It therefore provides a basis for very
rapid intervention. The service is due to enter use on February 15,
2010.

Message content
The e-mail sent to draw a registrar's attention to the fact that a
client is running a website that may be fraudulent will include the
following information:

- Suspected phishing site URL
- Host: the IP address of the system running the website
- Country: the country of origin of the IP address
- Date: the date and time that the suspect site was detected
- Target: the name of the company that seems to be targeted

SIDN are conscious of the danger of such a service and warn registrars that there may be false alarms.

It will be interesting to see how registrars and the wider internet community react to the introduction of this service.

Access .Tel Information Using Perl

By Michele Neylon on April 12, 2009 4:36 PM | Permalink

If you're a Perl coder then you may find a new Perl module of some interest to you.

Net::Lookup::DotTel gives you access to looking up a variety of records (information) associated with a .tel domain name.

Pretty cool!

Telnic Launch Developer Centre and Offer Free Downloads

By Michele Neylon on October 15, 2008 9:32 AM | Permalink

As the countdown towards launch day for .tel comes closer Telnic is ramping up its activities.
This morning Telnic are officially launching their developer centre, which offers a number of applications, source code and documentation to help developers build on the .tel platform.

I've mentioned .tel a couple of times in the past. Personally I think it could herald a revolution in the way people interact with other people. If it takes off then your address book will never be quite the same again!

In the meantime you can head over to the Telnic Developer Area and play around with some of the demo applications they've made available for Blackberry, iPhone, Windows Mobile and Outlook. Unfortunately no Mac software is available at present, though Telnic have assured me that they're working on something...

Since I don't have a Blackberry or an iPhone here is a screenshot of the Blackberry application in action:

Neil Edwards Dispels Myths and Makes a Promise

By Michele Neylon on August 29, 2007 7:15 PM | Permalink

I've written about .mobi quite a bit over the last few months.

There are a few reasons for this:

I've met most of the team and thought they were cool people
They're actually based in Ireland and employ Irish people (yes that is a bit of national pride you're seeing!)
They seem to have a vision and a mission
They're trying (and succeeding) to make the mobile web a reality
They've been following up on their promises
They dont' seem to have as many issues with cybersquatters etc.,
They seem to be much more engaged with end users via their blogs and other channels

In any case the most recent post by CEO Neil Edwards really caught my eye. In it he dispels some of the "popular myths" and rumours surrounding the TLD, but he also makes public what has to be one of the coolest things a TLD manager could offer:

In fact, dotMobi has a standing offer. If you ever buy a dotMobi name and have a problem building conent, contact us. We will either help you directly, provide you with a tool or connect you with firm who can help you.

Now that is cool!

A Semi-Useful Domain Management Tool - Domain Log Book

By Michele Neylon on July 18, 2007 7:27 PM | Permalink | Comments (1)

I came across Domain Log Book earlier this evening via a post on Pinstripe The concept is nice - keep track of your domains in terms of renewal dates and page rank, however it's not that helpful if you deal with ccTLDs. I added a couple of .com domains to it and it showed me the info from whois ie. expiration date and the page rank from both Google and Alexa. However when I added a .ie domain it couldn't handle the renewal date at all. While I can understand that it would focus on .com I get the impression that not much attention was paid to other ccTLDs apart from co.uk, which seems to work. It doesn't, for example, tell you which registrar the domains are with - regardless of their extension, so I can't see it being that helpful for people using multiple registrars. However if you only have a modest domain portfolio with a single registrar this might work out quite well for you... It's free anyway, so you can't really complain :)