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By Chuck Kisselburg

ICANNWiki.org Last month Paris was the site for all things Internet.

June 21-26 ICANN held its 32nd International meeting. I am not saying that fits my claim of ?All things Internet? because two other conferences were being held just prior to ICANN?s conference.  The other two conferences were the EGENI conference on the 20th and [...]
By Chuck Kisselburg

ICANNWiki.org

Last August I blogged about ?.asia, A Social Networking Goldmine?. While the gist of the post centered around the new .asia TLD (its value with the advent of IDNs and how it can foster community) the underlying theme has been, and continues to be for me the value of what such regionally [...]
By Chuck Kisselburg I recently attended the Domain Roundtable conference. As with my attendance last year I walked away impressed with the entrepreneurial spirit of people coming together to constructively define and grow an entire industry. With last year?s attendance of the conference I approached the conference expecting to see the wild west of [...]

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Since the creation of social networking the internet has been the medium of choice for expressing one’s personality. With last month’s introduction...

Since the creation of social networking the internet has been the medium of choice for expressing one’s personality. With last month’s introduction of the .me domain, the country code top-level domain (ccTLD) of the southern European country, , the web is now more personal than...

We just released a new RSS Feed Management system to DomainTools that allows subscribers to monitor alerts and other services using RSS feeds instead of email updates. Email alerts have bugged me for a while because they clog my inbox, RSS gets announcements out of the inbox and in a more usable area. We are [...]
2008-07-15 14:45:25 CDT [DomainTools Blog]
We just got an outdoor sign installed on our building in Los Angeles. For those of you that missed the announcement Thought Convergence is the new parent company of Name Intelligence/DomainTools.com.

If you want to drive by and check it out the address of the building is 11300 W Olympic Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90064.

As you can probably guess, everyone at dotMobi loves the mobile web. And when we're not building new sites and services for the mobile web, we're often writing about it.
If domain names were considered food, then registrars would be comparable to restaurants

By Erich Mueller, Key Accounts Manager/Transfer Consultant If domain names were considered food, then registrars would be comparable to restaurants in which domainers dine. A domain name registrar is a company accredited to register domain names by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names...

China’s .cn now stands alone atop the list of the largest country code Top-Level Domain (ccTLDs) in the world.

By Joe Palombo, Key Accounts Manager / Transfer Consultant China’s .cn now stands alone atop the list of the largest country code Top-Level Domain (ccTLDs) in the world. It has shot past Germany (.de) at an alarming rate, with between 400,000 and 500,000 registrations occurring per month. With...

A United States District Court in North Carolina recently granted Ticketmaster, the plaintiff, a default judgment

By Liz Oliveira, Legal Team A United States District Court in North Carolina recently granted Ticketmaster, the plaintiff, a default judgment awarding five thousand dollars in statutory damages, attorneys fees, as well as the right to restrict the defendant, domain owner of TicketmasterEvent.com,...

2008-07-08 12:30:00 CDT [dotMobi]
Today, dotMobi announced the launch of autism.mobi, the result of a project lead by Steve Edelson, Director of the Autism Research Institute in San Diego, in collaboration with dotMobi. autism.mobi was a Premium Name and one which we were delighted to release as part of a closed Request for Proposals process.
2008-07-07 07:57:29 CDT [dotMobi]
The dotMobi team, having outgrown its last space, has taken over some new digs in Dublin's IFSC (International Financial Services Centre) this morning.
2008-06-30 16:16:32 CDT [dotMobi]
As you?ve heard many a time, "It?s an honor just to be nominated." And while that?s true, winning is nice, too.
2008-05-22 01:00:21 CDT [DomainTools Blog]
A great new book just hit the stands, “The Domain Game” by David Kesmodel is an intriguing book about our industry. The book is filled with people that I am intimately familiar with, so it was fascinating to read the book on many different levels. I was also mentioned a few times in the book [...]
I almost lost my domain permanently because I was unaware it was expiring. I got an alert from our new Registrant Alert system on DomainTools and it saved my ass. I am extremely thankful we invented this system. It is nice to have an example I can point to so soon after launching the service. [...]

News From BBC International

Pope Benedict XVI meets victims of child sex abuse by Catholic clergy at the end of his visit to Australia, the Vatican says.
Ingrid Betancourt urges Colombia's Farc rebels to free all hostages, as peace marches take place around the world.
President Omar al-Bashir of Sudan discusses an Arab League plan to defuse the row over accusations of war crimes.
Israel launches an inquiry after footage emerges appearing to show a soldier fire a rubber bullet at a Palestinian detainee.
US presidential hopeful Barack Obama says Afghanistan should be the focus of the "war on terror", on a visit to Kabul.
The annual summit of the Association of South East Asian Nations is to begin in Singapore, with Burma high on the agenda.

News From CNN International

U.S. presidential hopeful Barack Obama met with Afghan President Hamid Karzai on Sunday -- a leader the Democratic senator has criticized for not doing enough to rebuild the war-torn nation.

Read full story for latest details.

U.S. forces killed two relatives of a local Iraqi governor in northern Iraq on Sunday. The dead were identified by the U.S. military as members of al Qaeda in Iraq.

News From the ICANN Community

As reported earlier, Afilias had submitted a proposal to ICANN for the .INFO gTLD that would allow them to shut down domain names at will if they consider them abusive. ICANN has approved the proposal without soliciting comments, however comments to any registry proposal can be submitted at any time by sending an email to [...]
Our friend Sahar Sarid over at Conceptualist.com has a great post about valuing a domain name. Sahar points out that the sale price of a domain name should not only reflect the value of the domain, but also the costs...
Final Report of IDNC WG [PDF, 100K]

Public Comment Forum Open Through 15 August 2008

Summary: The IDNC Working Group (IDNC WG) has developed its Final Report on feasible methods that would enable the timely and efficient ("fast track") introduction of a limited number of non-contentious IDN ccTLDs, while an overall long-term IDN ccTLD policy is [...]
Morning folks!! Just wanted to give you some important mid summer updates. T.R.A.F.F.I.C. is #1 because we set the pace and are not afraid to try new things. The first silent domain auction, the first live domain auction and now, with that in mind, T.R.A.F.F.I.C. is proud to present another ground breaking first in the industry. For the first time at any domain show we are going to have multiple live auctions presented by multiple auction houses. This is going to be a game changer! Howard and I have nothing to sell. Our job is to promote the industry as best we can and also be as inclusive as we can. In tough times like this there will actually be...
New post over on Name Brief, which was getting sort of dusty. Watch this carefully because it's a small version of the debate that will ensue if ICANN auctions TLDs and then proposes to do good deeds with the proceeds.
The .Asia Landrush start was a huge success (see DotASIA's Press-release) and continues for another 6 days (till 12th March)! For those who missed the first days Landrush Promo, now is the chance to catch up with a new promotional code offered by ASIADNS/EURODNS that allows you to get the ...


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