Afilias Registers Success With IBM E-Business Hosting
White Papers Headquartered in Dublin, Ireland, with offices in Toronto, London, Dusseldorf and Philadelphia, Afilias Limited (Afilias; www.Afilias.info) is a domain name registry services provider that offers the infrastructure, tools and systems required to...
[September 22, 2004, 3:00]
.Info Reaches The Half-million Milestone
News More than half a million customers have registered a .info domain name during the first 90 days of operation, according to Afilias, the official registry for the new global top level domain (gTLD). The 500,000 milestone comes after Afilias received...
[October 25, 2001, 12:23]
.Info Registry Stuck In Traffic
News Afilias, the company administering the new top-level domain, said the system for new registrations had been taken down on Wednesday morning and would be restored later in the day. The trouble started this weekend when Afilias implemented a system...
[October 3, 2001, 10:57]
The Incredible Shrinking Internet
News Roland LaPlante, chief marketing officer for Pennsylvania-based domain name registry Afilias, said he was not surprised to find some people and companies are giving up their Web addresses. LaPlante, whose registry operates the .info top-level...
[January 3, 2002, 9:32]
.Info Chief Quits In Protest Over Sunrise Period
News Robert Connelly, one of the 13 directors of Afilias, has handed in his notice less than a week before the formal registration of .info domain names is opened to the general public. But according to Connelly, a lack of validation checks by the...
[September 7, 2001, 13:48]
.Org Domain To Get New Guardian
News Applicants to take over .org include the Internet Society (ISOC), in partnership with Afilias, IBM, Ultra DNS and DSI Technology Escrow Services; the Register.com subsidiary Register Organization; and the Union of International Associations, which...
[July 17, 2002, 15:05]
New Top Level Domains Get Closer
News A written statement from Afilias, the consortium chosen to run the .info domain, welcomed the board's resolution. The new Internet top level domains came a step closer to reality on Tuesday when the Icann board authorised the president and general...
[March 14, 2001, 12:25]
ICANN Names .org Successor
News An ISOC representative said current .org sites won't see any change in operations except for an upgrade to new software created by Afilias. A nonprofit group of computer professionals has cleared the final hurdle to become the next operator of the...
[October 15, 2002, 9:29]
VeriSign Set To Keep Grip On .net?
News Afilias Limited, which was ranked third behind Sentan Registry and ahead of DENIC and CORE++, was proposing to charge just $3 per .net domain name per year. We were the most competitive," insisted Desiree Miloshevic, policy development advisor at...
[March 29, 2005, 16:10]
VeriSign's Redirection Will Resume
News Crocker's questions, along with queries from Ram Mohan of Afilias, a domain name registrar, prompted an angry reaction from VeriSign representatives. VeriSign will give between 30 and 60 days' notice before resuming a controversial and temporarily...
[October 16, 2003, 10:05]
Dot-net To Go Non-profit?
News Other bidders include DENIC, which handles Germany's dot-de domain names, NeuLevel, which oversees dot-us and dot-biz domains, Afilias, which runs the dot-info domain, and Core++, a global consortium of domain registrars, registry operators and...
[January 20, 2005, 17:10]
