dotPH

dotPH will conduct scheduled server maintenance on Monday, July 7, 2008 from 2:00am to 4:00am (GMT+0800). During the maintenance, the system will encounter 30 minutes temporary downtime.

Please be informed that the dotPH website, registrar tools, domain registration, renewal, transfer and manage domain will not be available during the downtime. However, domain resolution and e-mail forwarding services will not be affected and will continue to function. Normal operations will resume upon completion of the maintenance.

Kindly note that dotPH office has moved to a new location. Our new office address is as follows:

2708 Jollibee Plaza Bldg.
F. Ortigas Jr. Rd.,
(formerly Emerald Avenue)
Ortigas Center, Pasig City
1605 Philippines

Should you have any inquiries, please feel free to contact us at (632) 6372104-05 or email us at helpdesk@domains.ph

Jose Emmanuel Disini, dotPH CEO, recently published two open letters to Secretary Virgilio Peña, Chairman of the Commission on Information and Communications Technology (CICT).

The letters cite the poor quality of basic IT services provided by the government, and raise questions about the government's move to seek redelegation.

The letters can be seen here and here.

Our bank now assesses a $50.00 clearing fee for ALL US-dollar dominated checks, whether drawn from local or a foreign bank. Kindly include this amount when paying with US-dollar denominated checks.

i.ph, the new second level PH domain, is specifically for individuals.

Priced at a wholesale rate of $3.75 a year to accredited dotPH Registrars, i.ph domains are an economical way for individuals to establish an Internet presence.

i.ph is uniquely geared to support blogging, the global web publishing phenomenon. It is the world's first anonymous domain, requiring only a mobile phone and email address to activate.

dotPH opened up the year 2004 with the introduction of the dotPh Rewards Plus Program. The aim was to support the efforts of our Registrars in promoting the PH domain. Rewards Plus recognized not just the Registrars, but the front-line people responsible for the actual registration of .ph domains.

Each new domain registered from January to April earned corresponding points. At the end of the quarter all those who reached the qualifying levels were rewarded accordingly.

Mr. Chin Wong posted a rebuttal to our letter to the Editor in Manila Times dated April 23, 2004. Unfortunately, his response has the same fallacies that characterized his original article.

The dotPH Uniform Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP) again proved effective in resolving domain name disputes quickly and efficiently. Microsoft Corp. was recently ruled to have the rights to the domain name hotmail.com.ph.

Mr. Fred dela Rosa
Executive Editor
Manila Times

Dear Mr. dela Rosa,

This is regarding a piece by Mr. Chin Wong in the Manila Times on Tuesday, April 6, 2004 and also appearing in your online edition.

The piece refers to guidelines being drafted by the NTC regulating the administration of the PH domain. I would like the opportunity to respond and hope that our response is given equal prominence to the said piece.

There are factual errors that need to be corrected, including (quotes from Mr. Wong's piece in italics):