Author Archives: Phillipa Pook
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Domain name transfers: tracking your technical settings
Transferring a domain name can be more complicated than you might first expect. It’s not difficult, but you have to take care of all the fine details. In performing transfers recently, I’ve noticed that a lot of people forget about the importance of a domain name’s technical settings. Read more ›
Moving the goalposts: government involvement in domain name policy
As the face of the domain name industry continues to change, governments are getting more involved with domain name policy – and often moving the goalposts before registrants’ eyes. The examples I am going to discuss are .cn (China), .kz … Read more ›
An invention that would rock the domain name industry
The steam engine thrust the transport industry into a new era. The Kindle is transforming the publishing world. If I could devise one tool that would revolutionise the domain name sector, it would be a universal, visible and standardised Whois lookup that is used by every registry. There are other means to locate registrant details, so we can still do a good job. But a better Whois would make things a lot easier. Read more ›