Voodoo.com auctioned this week!
Posted by press , Wednesday, 18 February 2009
Luxembourg, 18th February 2009 – Domain Invest (www.domaininvest.lu) announces the auction of the Domain Name voodoo.com on the 21st February during the Domainer Mardi Gras auction held in New Orleans, at a start price of 300,000 USD.
Voodoo.com is part of an extensive list of domain names being auctioned during this cutting edge conference. Aftermarket.com will provide a live auction, which allows all participants to bid in person or online at Aftermarket.com.
Posted by Caycee Boyce , Wednesday, 18 February 2009
MOBILE WORLD CONGRESS, Barcelona, Feb. 17, 2009 – dotMobi today announced its collaboration with the GSM Association (GSMA) to make the award-winning DeviceAtlas™ database available with an option for Type Allocation Codes (TAC). This will allow network operators to offer a host of new, innovative content and services tailored to users’ handsets. For instance, operators could send a welcome MMS to roaming customers with media-rich weather reports and links to local mobile Web sites rather than a static SMS network welcome message.
Posted by Caycee Boyce , Wednesday, 18 February 2009
DNJournal’s cover story for February takes a look at the career move of Ron Sheridan, the quintessential Business Development Director at DomainSponsor.com who walked away from his full-time job at the company he helped build into a powerhouse in the PPC space. Because he felt the best way to help build up his own company was to shepherd individual domainers and entrepreneurs who were striving to build something of their own, Sheridan picked up many friends during his journey to set up a successful career.
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Source: DNJournal by Ron Jackson — Reprinted with permission — February 17, 2009
Posted by Caycee Boyce , Wednesday, 18 February 2009
In October 2008 ICANN appointed JAS Communications as the consultants for the independent review of the SSAC, the Security and Stability Advisory Committee.
The role of the Committee is to advise the ICANN community and Board on matters relating to the security and integrity of the Internet’s naming and address allocation systems. For more information about SSAC, see http://www.icann.org/committees/security/
All The Web’s A Stage: Internet Governance Takes the Floor at Domain Pulse
Posted by David Goldstein , Monday, 16 February 2009
Domain Pulse 2009, the premier annual domain name conference for the German-speaking countries, took place this year in the beautiful Germany city of Dresden. While domain names are the focus of Domain Pulse, DENIC, this year’s organisers, diversified the conference to also include internet governance issues such as political campaigning and web 2.0, publicly financed media and the internet, the mobile internet, identity theft and advertising online.
Domainer Community Helps Bushfire Victims
Posted by Michael Gilmour , Friday, 13 February 2009
Donations are starting to come in from around the world as the domainer community reaches into its wallet to help those in desperate need. So far $534.69 has been donated to help the victims and I hope and pray that more will be coming soon.
ICANN – Microsoft Collaborates With Industry to Disrupt Conficker Worm
Posted by Caycee Boyce , Friday, 13 February 2009
Today, Microsoft announced a partnership with technology industry leaders and academia to implement a coordinated, global response to the Conficker (aka Downadup) worm.
Together with security researchers, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), and operators within the Domain Name System, Microsoft coordinated a response designed to disable domains targeted by Conficker. Microsoft also announced a $250,000 reward for information that results in the arrest and conviction of those responsible for illegally launching the Conficker malicious code on the Internet.
Recruitment for ICANN Leadership Positions: 2009 Nominating Committee
Posted by Caycee Boyce , Friday, 13 February 2009
The 2009 Nominating Committee began its work in November 2008 following the ICANN Annual Meeting in Cairo, Egypt, and is actively seeking qualified candidates for the following key positions within ICANN:
DOTZON – Incubating New TLD Name Spaces
Posted by David Goldstein , Thursday, 12 February 2009
With changes taking place to lead to the introduction of new Top Level Domains (TLDs), expertise in this area is in short supply. To help would-be applicants, the founders of dotBERLIN have decided to share their expertise with others considering applying for a new TLD and founded DOTZON. DOTZON consults, develops and implements TLD projects for companies and organisations. The Secondary Domain Market
Posted by Caycee Boyce , Thursday, 12 February 2009
In today’s domain world, the secondary market is the place to shop. Consider it a domain name thrift store, or flea market. You will be hard pressed to find a valuable, generic domain in the primary market. The secondary market is where mny large corporations and end-users are finding the domains they need to supplement their current business presence. As we now know, internet-commerce has exploded, and is not going anywhere anytime soon.
