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Foxbane Ltd and Steven Heath: Domainz Links relating to the InternetNZ wholly owned company Domainz. Former .nz registry and now one of many registrars. Behold the future! I have been mulling the future of this site from some time. The reason is simple, .nz, in general, has its shit together. Things are not falling apart or lawsuits being threatened (or in some cases filed) and multi million dollar projects run by inept management are not occurring any more. I created this blog back in July 2002 in the days of the formation of the SRS to highlight what was going to those people that did not ‘live the SRS’. While I do not think .nz is perfect it is one of the best ccTLD’s. I think that for instance NZOC should be more transparent and broader process for appointments and full registrar stats being made public. The last part of the jigsaw is the .nz disputes process. Once that is implemented I will cover any initial cases and then I think I will turn out the lights. I plan to keep the site online for all those amusing Google searches I get. Other options were to turn it into a ‘personal blog’ but then again I would rather give myself a lobotomy with a spork than do that. For a brief moment I had thought about running the Unofficial DPF Fan Site (UDPFFS) but I think some 8 year old girl called Sarah is already planning on doing that so I wont steal her thunder :-) I plan to refocus my attention on the registrar survey that I was half way through doing before a hard drive crash and being a reference site for the .nz ccTLD. Of course if I’m lucky .nz could all fall apart and I could have a ‘target rich environment’ again and things will be back to the ‘good old days’. Here’s hoping! SSC becomes registrar NZ Herald has a story on State Services Comission becoming a .nz Registrar. I have been aware of a while about the SSC trying to figure out what to do with the registration name process and how to run it or select a registrar. I find the part that One Squared 'built the registrry'. I assume they mean the little web based application that handles name submissions and the approval process... yeah, that sounds like a registry to me. Registrar stats for gTLD, .au and .nz I have blogged the market share and registrar averages for ICANN, auDA and DNC approved registrars. I think it makes some interesting points such as ICANN and DNC have very similar profile other than the names per registrar average. InternetNZ settles Melbourne IT claim over Domainz sale Interesting tidbit in the minutes of the InternetNZ council meeting. InternetNZ approved a payment of $20,000 to Melbourne IT to settle a claim that they had made. I wonder what the issue was and how much they actually asked for? Melbourne IT reaps in the dosh Melbourne IT (the owner of Domainz) has released a statement that profit is going well and could out do the last 12 months. It states Domainz was one on 'strong contributions' to the profit. Stuff on .nz disputes process Stuff has a story on th e.nz dispute process. Some quotes from Peter Dengate-Thrush, Domainz and FreeParking. Normally a WG member does not speak their own views to the media. I wonder if the WG changed the normal agreement? expired domain names NBR has a good story with a very misleading title regarding expired .nz domain names and a new service from Net24.Reminds me to blog about my thoughts on expired domain name 'services' and also to update the .nz registrar price list. Calling me a liar eh? IDG has a story on the Intergen/Vodafone issue I posted about last week. The interesting thing is I spent a long time on the Intergen website looking for domain name information. Now Intergen says that it was online all this time... guess I am being called a liar? In all of New Zealand perhaps half a dozen people know .nz domain name polices, process and the SRS history better than I do. If one of the 'experts' in this area can not find the alleged information on a public site I think it is safe to assume it is so well hidden that in reality it does not exist. Knowing that Intergen (or one of its previous incarnations) wrote the DRS for Domainz you can reach your own conclusion on quality standards and over all process of that company. domainz.net.nz is not valid (so they say) Back in the dark ages of .nz (AKA the DRS days) Domainz had an interesting way to handle registering their own domain name (domainz.net.nz). The search logic had a block on searching on the string ‘domainz’ in any 2LD. This was because the name in fact wasn’t actually a regular name in the DRS it was kind of hard coded in the system. The same search block was done on any 2 letter domain name when the .nz policy did not allow a ccTLD string to be registered. You could still use the email template to try and sneak the name past the eyes of an Irishman, but that's another story. The SRS has been live for approx. 18 months now and Domainz still has the block on searching on their website on any 2LD string with domainz in it. It responds with: Please provide a valid domain name for the .nz Register The legacy of the DRS still haunts us… Domainz makes money Guess a new management team can do wonders eh? This was reported in SMH today. "The information technology group told its annual general meeting today that Domainz was performing above expectations and that it is profitable and cash flow positive. " This is compared to the 'gloom and doom' of the last management that had the company losing money even with projections of much higher number of names. Newsfeed display by CaRP