.nz news & views

	Tuesday, 23 December 2003

IDG end of year review story IDG has a 'end of year' story about defending the Internet. The back half of the story is about .nz, SRS and scammers. 10:38:39 AM      Like to comment? []

	Tuesday, 9 December 2003

Domainz: 3 months on IDG has a story on Domainz and its path to money making. Melbourne IT claims it would make money after 3 months. GM did not comment if it was making a profit yet. 8:41:11 AM      Like to comment? []

	Wednesday, 3 December 2003

Call for nominations for vacant NZRS director postion The request for nominations for the vacant NZRS director position has finally been posted. Nominations close on December 11th, only one week away, I guess some things never change. 11:02:54 PM      Like to comment? []

Sign up for GPL registry code details NZRS has a page on their website for those interested in getting further details and annoucements on the GPL release of the registry code. Also note at this time the last two months have had 100% uptime of the .nz registry systems. 10:57:44 PM      Like to comment? []

SRS and open source Last week it was announced that the .nz registry application was being released as 'open source'. The good news is that GPL is being used. I understand that Catalyst IT, the company that was paid to write the registry system, was recommending that "BSD" license being used. I will let those with some free time to see for themselves why Catalyst IT might have suggested "BSD" over GPL. I could only find IDG covering this announcement outside of InternetNZ/DNC. Note: When I use "BSD" I am referring to the revised BSD post advertising agreement such as X10/11. 10:47:24 PM      Like to comment? []