Written by David Goldstein , Sunday, 27 April 2008
A cybersquatter is holding the Spanish government to ransom by refusing to give up the domain names of several government ministries unless they agree to transfer water to all of Spain’s drought stricken regions reports London’s The Daily Telegraph.
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Written by Caycee Boyce , Sunday, 27 April 2008
Not once have we developed a business because of domain ownership. I believe, for us, we first fall in love with concepts rather then fall in love with domains. It is only after we have a concept in mind we truly feel comfortable with we then either match it with a generic domain within our portfolio, buy a generic domain, or move on and develop on a distinctive domain.
For example, we did not know we would develop FuneralHomes.com until two years ago, which is two years after we initially started building the directory software. We did not know what we would call Lifememory until a year into the project, we did not know what we would call ASSISTA until two years into the project, and we did not develop Flowchart.com because we owned the domain – we went and acquired it because we had a concept in mind.
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Written by Caycee Boyce , Saturday, 26 April 2008
Brussels, 14 April 2008 – EURid, the European registry for .eu, is pleased to announce that the stability and robustness of the .eu zone have recently been further improved by the addition of three new .eu name servers operated by the company NeuStar. Support for the new IPv6 standard for IP addresses has been introduced to .eu as well.
The three new name servers feature a technology called anycast. This means that even though they operate as one machine from a network perspective, in practise they are spread all over the world. The six original name servers are located throughout Europe in Amsterdam, Brussels, Ljubljana, London, Milan and Prague. Each is connected to the local national Internet Exchange.
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Written by Caycee Boyce , Saturday, 26 April 2008
In Ron Jackson’s latest Lowdown post, Jackson apologizes for his lack of communication and informs readers that a comprehensive wrap up of the Domain Roundtable event will be posted Monday.
Jackson also goes on to congratulate Steve Morales and Skip Hogland from Simply Geo, LLC who just announced their acquisition of GeoDomain.com and GeoDomains.com. They released their plans for the domains on the SimplyGeo.com blog today.
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Source: DNJournal — With Ron Jackson’s permission — April 25, 2008
Written by Caycee Boyce , Saturday, 26 April 2008
Photographer Tim Farris did a great job covering the Domain Roundtable event. Here are selected pictures:
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Written by Sander SCHOLTEN , Friday, 25 April 2008
After a quite successful first edition in November last year, Sedo will organize two dedicated auctions for the local TLD’s .nl, .be and .lu in 2008. The first edition of 2008 will be held between the 2nd and 9th of May and its auction catalogue has been published in the meanwhile.
Some of the premium names are: – huren.nl (‘to rent’) – boxen.be (‘boxing’)
– dvd.lu
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Written by David Goldstein , Friday, 25 April 2008
The campaign for London’s mayor is an attractive proposition for cybersquatters according to an article in The Guardian. Boris Johnson has been more proactive at protecting his online image than his main rival Ken Livingstone, while Brian Paddick, the third candidate in the race has also been a target.
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Written by David Goldstein , Friday, 25 April 2008
.ORG, The Public Interest Registry is pleased to announce the launch of the .ORG Resource Center. Committed to improving the online experience of the .ORG Community, the Registry has created a comprehensive library of information, interactive tools, examples and guides to help community members harness the power of the Internet and social networks to advance their mission.
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Written by Michael Gilmour , Friday, 25 April 2008
This is the second parking company survey that asks domain owners to rate different aspects of the parking company service that they predominantly use. There are 13 short multiple choice questions that only take a few minutes to answer.
The goal of the survey is to provide valuable data that can then be used in discussions with parking companies for the benefit of domain owners. For example the results of the survey were incorporated into a number of presentations that I made at the TRAFFIC conferences. The survey is treated very seriously by the parking companies and changes have been introduced as a direct result of it.
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Written by Caycee Boyce , Friday, 25 April 2008
Currently am at San Fransisco Airport, waiting for departure. The trip to this neck of the wood turned out, as always, to be great. After DRT I stopped for half a day at Web 2.0 with friends, was not impressed with what I saw. There’s still massive amount of money flying around chasing pageviews and userbase without any business plan nor bottom line revenue consideration. I understand it works for few however for the vast majority, especially those who do not have other businesses to support this sort of game, it is extremely speculative.
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