Written by David Goldstein , Sunday, 06 April 2008
The .eu TLD is celebrating its second birthday and over 2.8 million registrations, 300,000 of these in 2007, the European Union said on Saturday. It is also the fourth most popular TLD in Europe and ninth worldwide. The announcement of the milestone notes Milka, Bridgestone and Versace all are using the .eu TLD.
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Written by David Goldstein , Friday, 04 April 2008
The Sedo auction for pizza.com has finished with the domain name selling for a hot and spicy US$2.6 million. The domain was originally registered 14 years ago by Charles Clark from North Potomac in Maryland, the United States.
"It’s crazy, it’s just crazy," Clark, who recently launched a software company, told The Baltimore Sun. "That amount of money is significant. It will make a significant difference in my life, for sure."
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Written by Caycee Boyce , Friday, 04 April 2008
Public Comments Requested on Discussion Draft of Fast Track Mechanism for Introduction of a Limited Number of IDN ccTLDs
Discussion Draft of Interim Report of IDNC WG for Public Comments [PDF, 31K] Public Comments requested by 25 April 2008
The first Discussion Draft of the Interim Report of the IDNC Working Group (IDNC WG) has been published for comment and input from the ICANN community. This document has not been signed-off on by the IDNC Working Group whose members will continue to provide their own comments and input during this consultation period which is scheduled to end on 25 April 2008.
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Written by David Goldstein , Friday, 04 April 2008
On 18 April 2008 DENIC will host the 10th ENUM Day. The event takes places in the Le Meridien hotel in Frankfurt, Wiesenhüttenplatz 28-38 (close to Frankfurt central railway station). The ENUM Day begins at 10 a.m. and ends approximately at 4 p.m. Participation is free of charge. Please register for this event via our web form.
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Written by Caycee Boyce , Friday, 04 April 2008
Few pictures Jeff sent over, from one of our offices in Siberia. Most of the folks here are largely responsible for much of our development projects, from Assista, various RMG projects, Flowchart.com, domain related projects, and more. Darren, Jeff, myself and others within RMG all feel we have completely lucked out on having such great minds in our operations and for that, we’re all grateful.
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Written by David Goldstein , Friday, 04 April 2008
Domain Name Wire has an interesting article on Go Daddy and looks at why gave US$580,000 lobbying in 2007. Domain Name Wire found it odd that one of the articles they spent money on was “pharmacy”.
The article found at least some of the money was spent on. It was “The Ryan Haight Online Pharmacy Consumer Protection Act of 2008.” The legislation, introduced by Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., is key to reducing the proliferation of illegitimate pharmacies on the Internet.
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Written by David Goldstein , Friday, 04 April 2008
Tim Switzer has been appointed the new Vice President of Registry Services at NeuStar. He replaces his longtime colleague and friend Richard Tindal, who, after sevens is departing NeuStar to pursue other career opportunities.
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Written by Michael Gilmour , Thursday, 03 April 2008
An audit should be conducted on the processes a parking company adopts and not on the intellectual property. This could be from being relatively simple to immensely complex. What should NOT be happening is an audit of the contractual relationships between domain owners and the parking company. This would be far beyond the scope of this type of audit and would fall into the domain of a public company audit.
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Written by Caycee Boyce , Thursday, 03 April 2008
Seems like UTube folks are trying to send a message to YouTube, loud and clear to say the least:
A little background about uTube.com /YouTube here, here, and here.
More on that latest move by uTube at DomainState .
Anyone cares to analyze this move by uTube? Should make an interesting read.
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Written by Caycee Boyce , Thursday, 03 April 2008
MARINA DEL REY, Calif.: The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers today launched the Contractual Compliance Newsletter, a newsletter that offers a snapshot of the wide range of compliance work being done by ICANN.
Each issue of the newsletter will cover enforcement statistics, an in-depth look at part of the compliance process, information about audits and studies, and upcoming events.
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Written by Caycee Boyce , Thursday, 03 April 2008
Advisory available at http://www.icann.org/announcements/advisory-03apr08.htm
Due to perceived confusion within the registrar community concerning the circumstances under which registrars may validly deny transfer requests pursuant to the Inter-Registrar Transfer Policy, on 19 September 2007, ICANN issued a Notice of Intent to Issue Advisory Regarding the Inter-Registrar Transfer (Notice) http://www.icann.org/announcements/announcement-19sep07.htm.
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