ICANN’s next meeting will be held 22 – 27 June 2008 in Paris, France at Le Méridien Montparnasse. The meeting is free to attend, and open to any interested person. ICANN encourages broad participation in its bottom-up consensus-development processes.ShareThis

I think that the aeroplane hadn’t moved about 10 feet from the Las Vegas terminal before I was sound asleep. In fact, I can’t even remember the plane taking off or landing in Los Angeles. The same could be said for the long haul flight from LAX to Melbourne.ShareThis

Day two of Domain Pulse 2008 last Friday focussed on online security issues giving the techies amongst us details of security issues, and the more policy-orientated amongst us something to chew on in a few other presentations. Kieren McCarthy, these days of ICANN, also gave some insights into the drawn out sex.com drama with more [...]

The owners of the .travel gTLD, The Globe, announced they will sell the Tralliance registry to The Registry Management Company LLC, a privately held entity controlled by Michael S. Egan, theglobe.com’s Chairman, CEO and controlling investor.ShareThis

The Swedish registry, .SE, has released research that shows women register three times as many domain names for blogs compared to men. The news release is in Swedish and an English translation is not yet available, if it ever will be, but for those who can read Swedish, click here.ShareThis

ICANN staff has produced a briefing note on the New Delhi meeting of 10-15 February 2008. This meeting was ICANN’s 31st meeting and was hosted by ICANN and the Indian Government and officially opened by Shri Jainder Singh, Secretary, Department of Information Technology, the Government of India.ShareThis

ICANN is holding the second of two regional outreach meetings planned for FY07-08. The first meeting of these meetings was held in Taipei 19-21 October 2007.This second regional meeting will be held in Dubai from 1 to 3 April 2008 in Dubai.ShareThis

Around 350 attendees came from Russia in the east to Ireland in the west, as well as a few people from elsewhere around the globe, to attend Domain Pulse 2008 in Vienna on February 21 and 22. Day one’s focus was internet governance.The future of the DNS was one of the key issues addressed by [...]

The .Asia Landrush start is a huge success (see DotASIA’s Press-release)! For those who missed the first day Landrush Promo, now is the chance to catch up with a new promotional code offered by ASIADNS/EURODNS that allows you to get the .ASIA for only 6 Euros* and this for the next 7 days.The Promo Code [...]

Total of 266,663 Applications Received on First Day of LandrushHong Kong, 21 February 2008 – DotAsia Organisation, the registry operator of the “.Asia” Internet domain, is happy to announce the successful launch of its Landrush period. A total of 266,663 applications were received by the registry within the first 24 hours of the Landrush,ShareThis

The ordering of the deletion of a domain name by a United States federal judge in California is quite a significant development in recent days. The judge has ordered the domain name wikileaks.org to “be disabled at the behest of a group of Swiss bankers who filed a lawsuit alleging that confidential information appeared on [...]

In the previous two articles on clicks we’ve explored some of the problems that exist in counting clicks. To resolve this problem I believe that the most important issue that needs to be addressed in the definition of a click is the separation of a click from revenue.ShareThis

Aussie hat sold for 5000 USD, a donation from Michael GilmourShareThis

Cambridge, Massachussets, – Sedo, today announced that its next GreatDomains live auction will begin on Thursday, February 21 and run through Thursday, February 28.This will be the second of the New Year following January’s successful auction, which delivered impressive results with over 200 bidders from 35 different countries.  Expectations have been set even higher for this [...]

DrinkingWater.com is up for sale!Drinking Water has been a topic of interest to consumers for some time; lately general health and fitness are cited for this increase of awareness but it is also true there is a larger concern:In the United States as well as globally, news media are reporting increasing incidents of metropolitan infrastructure [...]

LogicBoxes, the Software & Consulting company for Web Service Providers along with Skenzo – the Domain Monetization arm of the Directi Group (http://www.directi.com), hosted an exclusive day trip labeled ‘The Taj Mahal Sojourn’ during the 31st ICANN meet held in Delhi, India between the 10th and 15th of February, 2008.Apart from supporting the ICANN meet [...]

LUXEMBOURG, Feb. 20, 2008 – The long-awaited landrush period for the top-level .Asia domains has arrived, and today, AsiaDNS is offering a special domain purchase price of four euros to successful applicants. The special price constitutes a 77 percent discount of AsiaDNS’ usual fee for .Asia domains. In addition, successful applicants will receive one extra [...]

Who can say anything is a long-standing debate in an industry that is just letting the paint dry? The debate: Build versus buy?  While newer to the domain name paradigm, this question has been pondered for time immemorial.  They say, “Rome wasn’t built in a day” – but it ostensibly could have been bought or leased [...]

The previous article finished by posing the question, “Why do some parking companies swallow the reporting of clicks but not the payment?” It doesn’t really make sense.ShareThis

Most recently notified WIPO Domain Name Decision(s) between February 15th and 19th, 2008:http://www.wipo.int/amc/en/domains/decisions/html/2007/dtv2007-0015.htmlcanadiantire.tv> Transferhttp://www.wipo.int/amc/en/domains/decisions/html/2007/dch2007-0023.htmlraiffeise.ch> TransferShareThis