Centralnic’s GB.COM is no longer pointing to their nameservers reports Michele Neylon on his Internet News website. Neylon also says that any domains in the zone are now being wildcarded to the main GB.COM website. Upon going to the GB.COM website, the following notice is posted: Welcome to the GB.com site You may be here because you have been sold a domain or email service using the gb.com domain that has ceased to work. You can restore that service swiftly by registering with GB.COM Ltd. GB.COM Ltd will not provide a service that you have paid others for, unless they have an arrangement with GB.COM Ltd. If you have already paid for future service and it has ceased then you should contact your supplier. If you have any queries please send us an email and we will endeavour to answer your questions. GB.COM Ltd. In response, CentralNic have posted the following notice on their website: Notice Regarding GB.COM Domains Unfortunately, the service we have been providing for domains ending .gb.com has been interrupted. We apologize for any inconvenience – the interruption was effected without warning by a third party and was out of our control. We are currently taking legal advice about this and will be taking urgent steps to restore the service. But we cannot achieve that instantly. In the interim we are taking every action possible to ensure that .gb.com websites continue to function during the temporary period before our service is restored, to mitigate any losses to our clients. Neylon, who manages registrar Blacknight Solutions , did a bit of poking around in Whois records and found the nameservers for GB.COM were switched away from CentralNic over to Bytemark earlier on the day in question. Neylon further notes that all the other Whois records seem to be unchanged. On his posting, Neylon notes several updates from CentralNic with the final one being from one of CentralNic’s staff stating: We have started creating accounts with Gb.com Ltd for our registrars, and registering their domains into them. Although we don’t believe that Gb.com Ltd has any right to do what they’ve done, we feel that this is the best course of action to get our registrant’s domains working, until we can resolve the legal issue and bring gb.com back onto our registry infrastructure. We are working in descending size order, so the largest registrar portfolios are being cleared first. As we are having to use a screen-scraping script to submit the information, it’s a slow process, taking 4-5 seconds per domain. We have already registered those domains that are directly registered with us, with no registrar. For further updates and additional information, see Michele Neylon’s Internet News blog at: www.internetnews.me/2011/07/30/centralnics-gb-com-in-dispute-gb-com-now-wildcarded

AusRegistry International has spread its registry wings wider, having been contracted by the Telecommunications Regulatory Authority (TRA) of Oman to provide registry software and supporting services for the establishment of a new Domain Name Registry System in the Sultanate. The new registry software will be used for both the existing .OM ccTLD and the planned عمان. (.OMAN) Arabic script internationalised country-code Top-Level Domain (IDN ccTLD)

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On 12 January 2011, 10:00 CET, the central German registry DENIC is going to make available nine short domains for registration which were previously blocked due to temporary injunctions: dw.de, e.de, f.de, g.de, hr.de, sr.de, x.de, y.de and z.de. Registration will be made applying DENIC’s standard “first come, first served” principle. Since the number of available domains is extremely limited, DENIC will use a special procedure: Applicants will have to submit requests by fax to fax numbers established for this particular purpose

Larry Putterman, member of the Data Storage Corporation board of directors (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Data storage and backup provider Data Storage Corporation ( www.dscorp.net ) announced on Wednesday it has named Larry Putterman to its board of directors.

Larry Putterman, member of the Data Storage Corporation board of directors (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Data storage and backup provider Data Storage Corporation ( www.dscorp.net ) announced on Wednesday it has named Larry Putterman to its board of directors. The appointment comes a week after the company named Peter Briggs its new executive vice president . Putterman has more than 30 years of executive experience with expertise in improving the efficiency of existing businesses, conceptualizing and implementing strategic plans for revenue growth and sustaining revenue in competitive markets.

Oct.14 – Normal, IL Cybernautic Inc, a leading provider of custom website design, web hosting, and search engine optimization, today announced that it is acquiring CSM Hosting, a company specializing in web hosting for small-medium sized business websites.