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We are performing some minor maintenance on the access and distribution layers of the Gandi Network.  During this time, users may experience slight interruptions of connectivity for the hosting services, but these should last only at most a minute or so for the network to restabilise.

We apologise for any inconvenience.

Update: This maintenance is now completed. (15:15 CEST)

In 2010, the geography of the Internet is set to expand significantly, as ICANN will liberalise the market for domain name extensions. Gandi have commissioned a report from The FutureLab to see how consumers and businesses view this change.
More about the liberalisation process

Is this a squatting opportunity or a branding opportunity?

2/3 of businesses don't realise domain extensions are being liberalised next year. But those businesses that do know about this (like Deloitte) are excited about the opportunities in the areas of global branding. However corporates are also concerned that brand protection mechanisms need to be in place at the new registries, a view that has been raised by Microsoft.
More about the impact on businesses. Inc video interview with COO Gandi.net

Will the net become full of pointless domains?

Many consumers are confused about what liberalisation means and are concerned by the rise of squatting, phishing and advertising clogging up the domain space. However they do feel a real connection with localised domain names, e.g. .london, .paris. nyc, etc., and communities they are interested in, e.g. .music, .movie, .sport. There is also a growing Generation Y group interested in self publishing and being associated with certain brand names like .facebook, .myspace, .moonfruit.
More about the impact on consumers. Inc video interview with Marketing Director Gandi.net

Will this mean the end of 'Dot Com'?

Will 'Dot Com' decline with the advent of new geographical, brand and interest group based extensions. Or will this give Dot Com a chance to clean up its act and reclaim its prime real estate from pay per click ads, squatters and unresolved web addresses.
More about the evolving landscape

The evolving landscape of the internet following liberalisation

Why did Gandi commission this independent report

At Gandi we feel strongly about the future of the internet. We commissioned this report because we want to keep the domain space free for consumer and commercial use. We think this is an important enough issue that people need to understand the impact on them as consumers and businesses. How do you want these new domain territories to be governed? and are there lessons to be learned from how we've used our existing domain space? More about the report

Download the report in full

To comment on this come to our special report pages

As a long-time registrar, we are aware of the importance of keeping up with the internet, as well as trying to be at the forefront of changing technologies as we have done for the past four years. Now it's time to do the same with IPv6!

Due to a network equipment failure, some virtual machines are now unreachable. Our staff is currently working on fixing this issue. We apologise for any inconvenience.

12:15 AM : All maintenance are completed.

We will be performing upgrades to our optical network infrastructure during the nights of 4-5 and 5-6 June 2009 to install new optical mulitplexers. During this activity, customers may experience several short periods of interruption to Gandi services lasting approximately five minutes each. The work, however, will be performed in a staged manner to minimise the impact on service. This work will further optimise our network infrastructure as well as providing additional capacity for growth in the coming months and years so that we can endeavour to provide the highest quality service for our customers.

We apologise in advance for any inconvenience that this work may cause.

Update: 6/6/09 07h00: These upgrades have been successfully completed.

Would you trust a 'for profit' company to represent your best interests? Perhaps. But when your interests diverge, will they represent you or themselves?

Following the overwhelming success of our first article on the domain name industry (1 comment ;-), we naturally thought you were begging for more! I know, I know registrars and registries can be a bit dull, but it is important. Believe me when something goes wrong with your domain name, understanding this can be quite important. So if we look at how and where issues can be dealt with, and who has influence in the industry it sheds a bit more light on the subject.

Due to the unavailabilty of the registry responsible for the .CC, .TV, and .NAME domains, new domain creations are delayed, and real-time operations (whois, DNS changes, etc.) are temporarily unavailable.

We apologise for any inconvenience.

EDIT : The three registries are now available. We apologized for the inconvenience.