News on Dot and Co

You will find here the latest news on Dot and Co.

2009-01-16 : Dot and Co starts its blog on ICANN Registrars Life

This weblog can be used to stay tuned daily on all ICANN Registrars changes, new accreditations and deaccreditations, new registrars, changes in names, countries, websites or domain name prices (for some selected registrars). The weblog has ATOM feeds for syndication, by registrars, TLDs and categories.

See our blog at http://icann-registrars-life.dotandco.net/

2008-12-23 : Dot and Co is now available over IPv6

All of Dot and Co services (Websites, Emails, DNS, NNTP) are now available over IPv6 transport, thanks to a tunnel made available by Hurricane Electric. We are seeing since the beginning about a month ago a slow increase of the percentage of IPv6 traffic towards our services, with an average of 4% of all traffic being IPv6, but with some peaks over 40% during time. We are also now monitoring ICANN registrars websites IPv6 access, and currently none of them is declared with an IPv6 address.

We also added a new page in our ICANN Registries section with two tables showing, per month or per year and per TLD, the variation of domain names numbers: domain name numbers variations

2008-10-08 : Dot and Co releases version 0.92 of its software

Dot and Co has released a new major version of its domain names toolkit software. This new version has an integrated command line interface (shell) so that you can benefit from all power of the software without writing any single line of code. It is also today the only free software (besides the DENIC registry own implementation) that can be used as client for the IRIS DCHK (IETF RFC 3981 and 5144) service, a new set of protocols that should replace the current whois and which are currently only available for the DENIC registry handling .DE.

Dot and Co is open for collaboration with any registry, domain name registrar or provider wishing to implement these new technologies, as well as other protocols being deployed, such as DNSSEC or ENUM.

Net::DRI is available as a free software under the GPL license and you will find all details in our section on Net::DRI.

2007-04-19 : Dot and Co releases version 0.80 of its software

Dot and Co has released a new major version of its domain names toolkit software, after two years of work. This new version adds full support for DAS and whois through the same interface, in order to be able to operate on many services with only one toolkit. Net::DRI enables registrars to handle their domain names in .COM, .NET, .ORG, .BIZ, .INFO, .EU, .BE, .AT, .CAT, .AERO, .MOBI, ENUM, etc... among others.

Net::DRI is available as a free software under the GPL license and you will find all details in our section on Net::DRI.

2006-06-15 : Dot and Co releases version 0.30 of its software

Dot and Co has released a new major version of its domain names toolkit software, already used by some registrars, which now provides full support of .FR by email as well as numerous extensions for extended support in .COM .NET .US .AERO .MOBI .CAT among others, and Austria Infrastructure ENUM.

Net::DRI is available as a free software under the GPL license and you will find all details in our section on Net::DRI.

2006-05-24 : Dot and Co shows detailed information on each ICANN accredited registrar

Our section on ICANN accredited registrars shows detailed information on each registrar, such as the absolute number of domain names handled as well as in proportion to the total number of domain names, the registrar position among all registrars, the number of deletions done (which easily shows with registrars participate in «5 days domain tasting» operations) or the distribution of domain names handled among all domain names handled by a given registrar. The full list of all ICANN accredited registrars is also available, by alphabetical order, country, TLD, or accreditation date.

Information is currently available only for .COM .NET .ORG but is regularly updated and other TLDs will be added.

2006-05-12 : Dot and Co releases version 0.22 of its software

One year after its first public release, Net::DRI is now available at version 0.22, with multiple bugfixes for .EU, enhanced support for EPP with poll messages, and preliminary support for .FR by email.

Net::DRI is available as a free software under the GPL license and you will find all details in our section on Net::DRI.

2005-10-24 : Dot and Co releases version 0.17 of its software

The Net::DRI toolkit now provides all protocols necessary to connect with EURid, the .EU registry, including for sunrise operations. Net::DRI is the only free software not coming from a registry you can use to register .EU domain names.

Net::DRI is available as a free software under the GPL license and you will find all details in our section on Net::DRI.

2005-10-04 : Dot and Co releases a new version of its software

The Net::DRI toolkit now implements 3 new extensions for the EPP standard to handle DNSSEC, ENUM (E.164) and groups of nameservers (nsgroup), which are needed for .BE and .EU. The next version of Net::DRI will provide all protocols used by .EU. Net::DRI is the only free software with a full RRP and EPP implementation at the same time with an uniform API, and all those extensions.

Net::DRI is available as a free software under the GPL license and you will find all details in our section on Net::DRI.

2005-08-02 : Dot and Co is now officially accredited as .EU registrar

The .EU registry has confirmed our accreditation as official registrar for .EU domain names.

We currently do not accept any kind of pre-registration, and all details about our offers and services will be later posted on our web site and will be announced in our newsgroups.

2005-07-20 : Dot and Co releases a new version of its software with the EPP standard

The Net::DRI toolkit now implements the EPP standard, created by IETF for connecting registries and registrars. Net::DRI is the only free software with a full RRP and EPP implementation at the same time with an uniform API. The EPP extension dealing with grace periods is incorporated in this release, and other EPP extensions will be created in the future.

Net::DRI is available as a free software under the GPL license and you will find all details in our section on Net::DRI.

2005-05-31 : Dot and Co releases a new version of its software for connecting to .FR registry and Gandi registrar

The Net::DRI toolkit is now able to check availability of a .FR domain name (for AFNIC members) and to change nameservers associated with a domain name, if it is currently maintained by the registrar Gandi. This update shows how easy it is to use this toolkit for registrars as well as end clients. Further developments will include asynchronous registries, and EPP support.

Net::DRI is available as a free software under the GPL license and you will find all details in our section on Net::DRI.

2005-04-28 : Dot and Co releases the first free software for connecting to registries and registrars

Net::DRI is a toolkit to build applications on an abstract interface which remains the same for any domain name registration provider, either registries, registrars or resellers and thus can be used the same way by a registrar or an end client.

Net::DRI is available as a free software under the GPL license and you will find all details in our section on Net::DRI.