“The integration of Mobius customers brings over some great clients and their beatiful websites, extending our existing OthelloHosts DotNetPanel hosting services. I’m very excited to welcome several hundred more businesses to the ever growing Othello family.” reports Rob Golding, MD.

After careful planning the company migrated the Mobus and Lavender customers to new servers in the Othello DataCentre in Docklands, London, so clients would be able to benefit from the fully redundant high-performance AS29527 network, in-house dedicated support teams and gain an immediate SEO boost from being on ultra-fast UK IP addresses.

The completed integration grants users access to ‘Unified’ – the online Othello Client Portal – allowing for realtime management of web hosting accounts, domain registrations, vps and dedicated servers from one single location. Mobius clients now have the assurance that their website will be online at a host with a 10 year proven track record of uptime and quality support.

As a result of this action by CNNIC, we have no choice but to stop accepting new .CN registrations through OthelloNames.net and OthelloReg.net with immediate effect from today.

Please note that currently renewals will continue to be supported.

Availability checks for .CN domains via the Client Portal, OthelloNames.net Web Interface and API will be changed to return Not Available for .CN domains.

CNNIC says the suspension will

allow us to implement a better methodology to verify registrant information

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This is in direct response to Chinese Government concerns that the normal use of .CN (Spamming and Scamming) had been “subverted” by overseas Registrants forcing the ccTLD to become synonomous with more “decadent” uses of domains (hosting profit making websites and p0rn)

There is no timetable for the resumption of new registrations.

To ease the pain for domain registrants for the whole of January, Othello Technology Systems Ltd Domain Registration Service will effectively pay the VAT on your new domain registrations with our special 17.5% discount on all our registration prices with money-off coupon VAT175

Take advantage of the lowest pricing of any UK based, ICANN accredited domain name registrar today at OthelloNames.net – .uk domains as low as £2.53/year (exc. VAT)!

• Search for an available domain
• Follow the simple online order process
• Enter VAT175 in the money-off voucher box and click validate voucher
• Save 17.5% on your new domain name

To celebrate we’re offering you the chance to get your own .UK domain during the conference for just £2.95/2yrs (saving £3)

Use promocode “LORDSCRICKET” when registering a new domain at OthelloNames .UK Domain Registration

Promotion Terms & Conditions: one domain per customer, new and existing clients allowed

Due to multiple breaches of their Registrar Agreement, including:

• not paying accreditation and annual fees to ICANN
• failure to maintain accurate contact information for the registrar
• failure to provide web page access to whois database

ICANN Letter to Red Reg INC

Domain names that come up for auction in April:
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Domain names that come up for auction in May:
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First auction – Sunrisers

April 1: List published

April 20: Closing date for applications by registrars

April 22: Notification to participants

April 23 to April 29: Auction held

If you’d like any of these domain names, please contact our Domain Broker Sales Team
who can arrange your participation in the auction, or to bid on your behalf.

Second auction – Landrushers

April 1: List published

May 10: Closing date for applications by registrars

May 13: Notification to participants

May 14 to May 20: Auction held

If you’d like any of these domain names, please contact our Domain Broker Sales Team
who can arrange your participation in the auction, or to bid on your behalf.

First up is .paris … a city with it’s own domain type …

After all the hypocrasy of Bob Parsons, CEO of GD, complaining about domain tasting and kiting, yet running his own domain tasting/cybersquatting company, GoDaddy have finally announced that their sub-company “Standard Tactics LLC” is closing, after numerous trademark infringement cases for cybersquatting.

Whilst this can only be good news for domain purchasers (for actual use or search engine spam or whatever) it’s still not a complete clean-up of their act as a registry/registrar.

If a domain is not renewed, which had previously been registered by GD, and that domain has any sort of “residual” traffic or backlinks – they’re listing them for sale @ $300+ on TDNAM the GoDaddy owned domain aftermarket – rather than release them !

Up until recently, TDNAM had also come under heavy criticism after it was discovered that their own “VP of Aftermarket Sales” was caught bidding against his own clients to shill-bid up the price on 2ndary domains – GD have now issued a “policy” preventing staff bidding against clients on behalf of the company – a practice illegal on auctions in the US – it would be like ebay knowing yor max bid and always forcing you to pay it !

1. Xinnet Bei Gon Da Software
2. BEIJING Networks
3. Todaynic

And joining the top 3, with guest appearances in the top 25 registrars of spamvertised domains and spammer friendly registrars are:

• Xiamen Ename (ENAME.CN)
• Beijing Innovative Linkage (DNS.COM.CN)
• OnlineNIC (CHINA-CHANNEL.COM)
• HiChina Web Solutions (NET.CN)
• BIZCN.COM

Perhaps if the Great Firewall of China was setup to stop things leaving rather than getting in,
the internet in general and mail in particular would be a safer and more productive place.

For more information about these scum visit knujon registrar listings