MYNIC have announced the maximum cap for new registration and renewal fees of .com.my, .net.my, org.my, .gov.my, .edu.my and mil.my will remain at RM80 and RM32 for .name.my in order to encourage .my domain name registrations. (Read more…)
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Wednesday’s registrar lunch in Rome (Italy) kicked off the series of such events that EURid will be hosting for its registrars throughout Europe this autumn. The registry aims to enhance its services based on the useful input registrars will provide during these meetings. (Read more…)
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The debate over who is in the running to take over as chair of ICANN is the focus of a story of DomainesInfo (click here to read their story in English or French), and picked up in the New Zealand press (here). There are three candidates listed: Roberto Gaetano, current vice-chair, Peter Dengate Thrush and Steve Crocker.
The New Zealand press has an interest due to one of the candidates, Peter Dengate Thrush, being a Kiwi. (Read more…)
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Network Solutions is partnering with ECMTA and PeSA to present a Search Engine Optimization Seminar on October 3, 2007 in San Francisco, California. This seminar will educate small business owners on the importance of SEO and how it benefits their online business. (Read more…)
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Moniker.com announced that it has entered into a strategic partnership with NameMedia to provide premium domains for purchase at Moniker’s MarketPlace, a full-service online domain transaction platform.
“Moniker’s partnership with NameMedia will allow our customers access to premium domains, giving them more options when acquiring a new website address,” said Monte Cahn, co-founder and CEO of Moniker.com. “Through this new partnership, Moniker’s MarketPlace will now be populated with an excess of three million domains available for purchase.” (Read more…)
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Network Solutions now makes it possible to acquire premium domains that are currently registered by another registrant and available for purchase. Premium Resale Domain Service allows a buyer to securely purchase domains at a fixed price so there is no long negotiation process between the buyer and seller. (Read more…)
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ICANN has published a “San Juan to Los Angeles” newsletter to all those subscribed to ICANN meetings updates (you can subscribe here), covering ICANN “intersessional” work i.e. the flow of work between main ICANN meetings – in this case between San Juan in June, and Los Angeles, running from 29 October to 2 November. (Read more…)
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Facebook has won a domain dispute against Privacy Ltd. Disclosed Agent for YOLAPT, a business from the Isle of Man. The disputed domain name . The domain was registered in October 2004 and “provides, inter alia, advertising for and links to other commercial websites offering social networking and information services.” (Read more…)
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On Friday, October 12, dotMobi will auction a select group of domains at T.R.A.F.F.I.C. EAST 2007 at a live auction hosted by Moniker. The .mobi names scheduled for auction cross a variety of categories, including entertainment, finance, food, government, health, internet and retail. (Read more…)
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WallStreet.com, Computer.com, SportingGoods.com and Taxes.com Available to Highest Bidders
Coming off the huge success of its live and silent auctions at T.R.A.F.F.I.C. NYC which collectively generated more than $12 million in domain sales, Moniker.com, the first and only provider of Domain Asset Management(TM), announced today that its next live domain auction will be held at T.R.A.F.F.I.C. East 2007 in Hollywood Beach at the Westin Diplomat Resort on October 12, 2007 at 2p.m.
Presented by the World Association of Domain Name Developers, Inc. (WADND), T.R.A.F.F.I.C. is the domain industry’s signature conference series. Steve Forbes, CEO of Forbes, Editor-in-Chief of Forbes Magazine and former presidential candidate, will keynote T.R.A.F.F.I.C. East 2007 in Hollywood, Florida. (Read more…)
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The previously mentioned auction on Sedo of Iraq.com, track.com and Zimbabwe.com is rocketing on, with current bids at €600,000, US$100,000 and US$96,500 respectively. It seems Iraq is worth around eight times more than Zimbabwe, in cyberspace anyway!
I believe Sedo has announced that if the sale closes they will donate a portion of the revenue to UNICEF.
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NIC México have a special offer till the end of September where you can register a .mx domain name for US$6 per year for five years.
The offer only applies to new registrations that are paid for before the end of the month. And registrations for fewer years are slightly more expensive – the shorter the registration period, the more expensive. (Read more…)
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Cybersquatters, predicatbly, have beaten Apple again to key domain names relating to the iPhone prior to its launch in the UK. And even prior to the announcement. According to a report in UTalkMarketing.com, cybersquatters have been busily registering domain names relating to the iPhone and the telco.
The report notes one cybersquatter has been particularly busy in recent months, registering domains such as O2iphone.co.uk, O2iphone.net and orangeiphone.co.uk. Other examples of domain names to be registered include ukiphone.co.uk, tmobileiphone.com, 02iphone.co.uk, and iphonevodafone.co.uk. (Read more…)
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Samsung, the South Korean electronics company, is embroiled in a court battle over the domain name sens.co.kr with a small local food supply company, whose name has been withheld, reports AFP.
An earlier court decision said the domain name should be transferred to Samsung, however the company is appealing this decision. (Read more…)
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InternetNZ through the Domain Name Commission is pleased to announce that the number of registrations of domain names under the .nz TLD has reached 300,000.
(Read more…)
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