Google uses MarkMonitor to register it's domains...

Interesting to see Google outsources it's domain name registration ...

Search on google (.co.za)
Match: One

Domain: google.co.za

Accounting info....
 Date    |Type|  Cost |Invoices are E-Mail to....|Paid Date |ICnt| TrkNo  |Billing Info
2001-06-25|  N | 200.00|dnsbilling@webafrica.co.za|2001-09-17|  4 |  164683|Diginet
2002-07-01|  R |  50.00|dnsbilling@webafrica.co.za|2002-08-07|  2 |  227053|Diginet
2003-06-06|  U |   0.00|dnbilling@alldomains.com  |2003-06-06|  0 |       0|Alldomains.com
2003-07-01|  R |  50.00|dnbilling@alldomains.com  |2003-07-09|  1 |  292974|Alldomains.com
2003-08-15|  U |   0.00|dnbilling@alldomains.com  |2003-08-15|  0 |       0|Alldomains.com
2004-07-01|  R |  50.00|dnbilling@alldomains.com  |2004-07-05|  1 |  369580|Alldomains.com
2005-07-01|  R |  50.00|dnbilling@alldomains.com  |2005-07-06|  1 |  463480|Alldomains.com
2006-07-03|  R |  50.00|dnbilling@alldomains.com  |2006-07-05|  1 |  607827|Alldomains.com
2006-07-08|  U |   0.00|ccops@markmonitor.com     |2006-07-08|  0 |       0|MarkMonitor
2006-07-15|  U |   0.00|ccops@markmonitor.com     |2006-07-15|  0 |       0|MarkMonitor
2007-07-02|  R |  50.00|ccops@markmonitor.com     |2007-07-02|  1 |  788199|MarkMonitor
2008-07-02|  R |  50.00|ccops@markmonitor.com     |2008-07-02|  1 | 1004899|MarkMonitor
2009-07-02|  R |  50.00|ccops@markmonitor.com     |2009-07-02|  1 | 1299609|MarkMonitor


Flashing RED indicates that payment has not been received - please
confirm with the UniForum SA accounting department, accounts@co.za, should this
not be according to your records. You have been sent 0 invoices/statements.



(Info:- Historical info exists - the oldest or 'original' is last) ...
         google       <-- The info shown below
        google.1
       google.2
       google.3
       google.4

0a. lastupdate             : 2006-07-15 19:16:14+02
0b. emailsource            : chris.fulgham@markmonitor.com
0c. emailposted            : Fri, 14 Jul 2006 11:03:17 -0600
0d. emailsubject           : Update google.co.za
0g. historycount           : 5
0h. invoiceno              : 0
0i. contracttype           : NEW
0j. rcsversion             : $Revision: 1.138 $ $Date: 2006/07/11 13:22:53 $
1a. domain                 : google.co.za
1b. action                 : U
2a. registrant             : Google Inc.
2b. registrantpostaladdress: 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View,
2c. registrantstreetaddress: 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View,
2d. amount                 : 0.00
2e. paymenttype            : I
2f. billingaccount         : MarkMonitor
2g. billingemail           : ccops@markmonitor.com
2i. invoiceaddress         : PMB 155, 10400 Overland Road, Boise, ID, 83709 US
2j. registrantphone        : +1 6503300100
2k. registrantfax          : +1 6506181499
2l. registrantemail        : dns-admin@google.com
2n. vat                    :
3a. operationaldate        : 2006/07/15 19:16:14
3b. cname                  :
3c. cnamesub1              :
3d. cnamesub2              :
4a. admin                  : Admin, DNS
4b. admintitle             : DNS Administrator
4c. admincompany           : Google Inc.
4d. adminpostaladdr        : 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043 US
4e. adminphone             : +1 6503300100
4f. adminfax               : +1 6506181499
4g. adminemail             : dns-admin@google.com
4h. adminnic               :
5a. tec                    : Admin, DNS
5b. tectitle               : DNS Administrator
5c. teccompany             : Google Inc.
5d. tecpostaladdr          : 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043 US
5e. tecphone               : +1 6503300100
5f. tecfax                 : +1 6506181499
5g. tecemail               : dns-admin@google.com
5h. tecnic                 :
6a. primnsfqdn             : ns1.google.com
6b. primnsip               : 216.239.32.10
6c. primnsipv6             :
6e. secns1fqdn             : ns2.google.com
6f. secns1ip               : 216.239.34.10
6g. secns1ipv6             :
6i. secns2fqdn             : ns3.google.com
6j. secns2ip               : 216.239.36.10
6k. secns2ipv6             :
6m. secns3fqdn             : ns4.google.com
6n. secns3ip               : 216.239.38.10
6o. secns3ipv6             :
6q. secns4fqdn             :
6r. secns4ip               :
6s. secns4ipv6             :
8a. netblock1start         :
8b. netblock1end           :
8c. netblock2start         :
8d. netblock2end           :
8e. netblock3start         :
8f. netblock3end           :
9a. description1           : Web portal doing business internationally
9b. description2           :
9c. description3           :
9d. description4           :
9e. description5           :
9f. description6           :

Price comparison of Slovenian (.si) domain names

I compared a number of Slovenian domain registrars for prices for one year for a .si domain, with no hosting.

tld-registrar.com - €30 / year
101domain.com - $119 / year
slovenia-domain.com - €16.80 / year
domene.si - €19.96 / year
domovanje.si - €15.59 / year
domenar.net - €14.90
hitrost.com - €15.54
Gigaspark.com - €18.90

The cheapest of the providers that had an english option was slovenia-domain.com at 16.80 euro. They also had a paypal option, so this is the one I chose.

domenar.net also appeared to have a paypal option, but it didn't work when I tried it.

All the other providers required a bank transfer as a form of payment, and had no english option. their sales support spoke english, and were even happy to zero rate the purchase for VAT, meaning that it would have been possible to order the domain for €12.95 from HitTrost.com
(podpora@hitrost.com)

New Domain Registry System in Malaysia

We are pleased to announce that .my DOMAIN REGISTRY will be launching a new .my DOMAIN REGISTRY System. We would like to thank our valued customers for all comments and opinions as the new system would not be possible without you.

With this new system,

• a Registrant can apply for multiple domain names in one submission and the domain names can be registered up to 5 years
• a Contact Person with the same Contact Code can perform multiple domain name transaction such as modification, deletion and transfer
• a domain name to be transferred to a new Registrant, is required to make payment before it is registered.
  

The effective date of this new system is on Monday 1st February 2010, 9.00 A.M.

In conjunction with the launch, .my DOMAIN REGISTRY website and WHOIS service will not be available during the following planned maintenance works:

Start Date/Time : Saturday, 30th January 2010, 9:00 A.M.
Completion Date/Time : Monday, 1st February 2010, 9:00 A.M.

However, please note that all domain names registered with .my DOMAIN REGISTRY will not be affected by this.

Please do not hesitate to e-mail domreg@domainregistry.my or call us at 03-8991 7272 if you have any query at all.

Changes to the NameCheap DNS API

The changes are primarily to namecheap.domains.create, namecheap.users.create methods and to the error numbers that were returned earlier. Error numbers returned for several API methods are changed and are now documented in the link below.

Changes to the API:
http://developer.namecheap.com/docs/doku.php?id=api-new-release:index

New error code documentation:
http://developer.namecheap.com/docs/doku.php?id=api-new-release:error-codes

Schedule for the update:
Jan 28, 2010 - To API sandbox (api.sandbox.namecheap.com)
Feb 15, 2010 - To production (api.namecheap.com)

NOTE: if you want to start making changes/ test today, new version of code is already available at http://test.api.sandbox.namecheap.com/. This end point will be removed after changes are moved to the proper sandbox URL.

WHMCS Plugin Customers:

Please note that the open source version of the plugin available at http://code.google.com/p/namecheap/ will not be updated anymore as WHMCS is providing their own official plugin for Namecheap. So, please pass this information on to WHMCS so that they can update the plugin.

We sincerely apologize for the inconvenience caused. Please post any question you may have in the new "Developer/ API Discussions" section of Namecheap Community Forums (http://community.namecheap.com/forums/viewforum.php?f=17)

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Today, November 25, 2009 starting 12.00 MSK trademark holders may
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IP address change of main Nameservers

IMPORTANT

IP Addresses of the nameservers on freenameservers.co.uk are changing from:

ns3.openmerchantaccount.com, from 78.110.167.104 to 85.234.144.8
ns4.openmerchantaccount.com, from 78.110.165.153 to 92.48.88.241

This change will be finalized on the 18th of December 2009, when the old IP address will
fail to work.