Posted by Chief Editor , Wednesday, 30 April 2008
Dublin, Ireland – As part of its ongoing series of unique methods of allocating Internet domain names, dotMobi — the company behind the .mobi web address for mobile phones – is bringing 16 "premium names" to market at Moniker’s T.R.A.F.F.I.C. East Auction on May 23, 2008.
To help drive interest in — and visits to — the mobile web sites of brands and businesses around the world, dotMobi has chosen to bring names to market that represent a wide range of interests. The domain names to be auctioned at this event are airlines.mobi, boats.mobi, company.mobi, computers.mobi, drugs.mobi, escort.mobi, films.mobi, forsale.mobi, men.mobi, mortgage.mobi, records.mobi, religion.mobi, ringtone.mobi, sales.mobi, show.mobi, and strip.mobi.
NIC Mexico reaches 250,000 .MX Domain Name Registrations
Posted by Chief Editor , Wednesday, 30 April 2008
NIC Mexico (Network Information Center México), the registry and administrators of the .MX cctTLD, is announcing that on April 28th, 250,000 .MX domain name registrations have been reached.
Link to Domain Roundtable Review Posted
Posted by Caycee Boyce , Wednesday, 30 April 2008
In the latest Lowdown post, Ron Jackson provides readers with a link to his comprehensive review of Domain Rountable, as well as discusses his opinion on the success of the Roundtable live auction.
Jackson also mentions the upcoming TRAFFIC conference, which will be held overseas in Australia.
For more, click here.
Source: DNJournal — With Ron Jackson’s permission — April 29, 2008
MySpace Loses MySpace.co.uk
Posted by Jeff Behrendt , Tuesday, 29 April 2008
In January, a controversial decision was made by the Nominet Dispute Resolution Service ordering that MySpace.co.uk be transferred to MySpace. The decision was controversial because MySpace.co.uk had been purchased before the well known MySpace even existed, and its use as a parking page had not changed because of the existence of MySpace.
An independent appeals panel has now overturned this decision.
Where do the Swiss live who register .ch domains
Posted by David Goldstein , Tuesday, 29 April 2008
SWITCH, the .ch registry, have released an interesting analysis of where registrants come from of .ch domain names. As could be expected given its concentration of businesses, Zurich has the highest concentration of domain names with 102,334 domain names as of end 2007. Bern (32,106), Basel (27,980) and Geneva (19,287) follow. The analysis also shows one in every ten Swiss residents has registered a .ch domain name.
WhyPark.com Receives Angel Investment
Posted by Michael Gilmour , Tuesday, 29 April 2008
When Brand Owners Don’t Think: Leading Domains = Lost Traffic
Posted by Caycee Boyce , Tuesday, 29 April 2008
On the same flight back home from San Fransisco I noticed how conceptual marketing helps generic domain name owners I also noticed of a rising trend, “leading domains”, domains which start with “goto”, “on”, “in”, “at”. “4″. This trend is related to the “Radio Test”. What is the “Radio Test”? Dan Warner, in an old DNJournal article, explains:
Posted by Caycee Boyce , Monday, 28 April 2008
Open Letter to Nominet Members
Posted by Chief Editor , Monday, 28 April 2008
Andrew Bennett writes in his blog about two important ‘polls’ that are currently under way at Nominet: Special Resolutions & Board election.
Apparently, this year Nominet has rather surprisingly sent out a letter to all members telling them to vote against three of the candidates: download letter here. As you can see, Angus Hanton (elected non-executive) hasn’t signed the letter. Mr. bennett believes this is because he sticks by his 2007 election statement: “I am in favour of control of the board staying with the members”.
Also on the 24th April 2008 the three candidates appeared on The Register as a “trio”: see article here
The ONLY reason the trio were linked together at all by Nominet was because they disagreed with special resolution 6 even though they gave valid reasons why in their election statements (see below). Finally there has been a false rumour circulating on nom-steer about Jim Davies, that was based on incorrect information (please see his additional statement below).
The candidates have therefore provided additional statements as requested by Nominet:
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