Sunday, 15 June 2008 21:29 Chief Editor
Sydney, Australia – June 15, 2008 – The launch of the domain name auction Web site Domainshed provides an online marketplace for buyers and sellers of .au domain names. After the recent auDA (au Domain Administration) decision to allow the sale, purchase and trade of ".au" domain names, the anticipated .au property boom has begun. The need for a well structured, affordable venue, advertising domain names for sale in Australia, has been realised by the creation of the Domain Shed Web site Domainshed…
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Sunday, 15 June 2008 10:06 Chief Editor
Reuters Press Agency is reporting that as part of the Kremlin’s initiative to promote Russian as a global language, the nation’s president Dmitry Medvedev sent a request to ICANN requesting a dedicated Internet domain name for Russia in the Cyrillic script.
Medvedev, who views the move as a matter of Russian pride, said that 300 million people around the world use the Russian media, and that a Cyrillic domain name would play a central role in raising the importance of Russian as a language. The mission is his personal priority as president, he said. "We must do everything we can to make sure that we achieve in the future a Cyrillic Internet domain name — it is a pretty serious thing," said Medvedev, addressing the International Congress of Russian Press in Moscow…
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Sunday, 15 June 2008 09:46 Chief Editor
To commemorate the upcoming Domainer Meeting in Paris (June 19th and 20th at Le Meridien Montparnasse Hotel), EuroDNS offers you the registration of .MOBI and .EU domain names for only 5 Euros.
To get your .MOBI for only 5 Euros, and use the voucher code 5MOBI15 valid until July 15th.
To get your .EU for only 5 Euros, and use the voucher code 5EU30 valid until June 30th.
Domainer Meeting is a European domain industry event that gathers key domain industry players from around the world in beautiful Paris, France. The Meeting is a chance for all domain communities to network, share knowledge, learn about new trends and discuss new challenges. Domainer Meeting targets the global market and more especially the young and fragmented European market…
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Sunday, 15 June 2008 09:22 Chief Editor
This story comes to us from the city of Cardiff in the UK. Duncan McDonald, a postman from Cardiff, is a man whose name can instil a sinking feeling in the stomach of the most blue-chip of businessmen. McDonald, who spends his mornings delivering letters and parcels, is running a lucrative sideline in his free time, holding businesses to ransom by buying up their companies’ domain names under their noses. Depending on your point of view, he is either an entrepreneur worthy of The Apprentice and Dragons’ Den, or a “blood-sucking leech”.
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Sunday, 15 June 2008 08:55 Chief Editor
Palm Springs, CA – The Castello Brothers (Castello Cities Internet Network) and Rob Monster (Monster Venture Partners / Domain Strategies) have partnered to develop Traveler.com.
"We first made our mark developing intuitive Geo-specific travel sites such as PalmSprings.com, Acapulco.com and Nashville.com while Traveler.com was the 800 pound gorilla waiting quietly in the wings," said Michael A Castello, CEO of the Castello Cities Internet Network. "CCIN’s partnership with Rob Monster and Domain Strategies will unlock the global potential of Traveler.com to become the ultimate travel portal and make that vision a reality." …
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Sunday, 15 June 2008 03:40 Vince Milder
Friday June 20th: Premium Domain SPOTLIGHT > HealthCare.com LIVE!
Learn about how a team of entrepreneurs teamed up to develop one of the premier names in the Health Care Industry – HealthCare.com. Gain insights and ideas about developing a high end property utilizing enabling tools, online communities, search marketing and more Tune in on
Friday, June 20th at 4pm only on Webcast 1. www.ustream.tv/channel/webcastone
Sunday, 15 June 2008 01:24
Discussion Draft of Interim Report of IDNC WG for Public Comments [PDF, 152K] Public Comments welcomed by 23 June 2008
Summary: The IDNC Working Group (IDNC WG) is currently working to develop and report on feasible methods that would enable the timely and efficient ("fast track") introduction of a limited number of non-contentious IDN ccTLDs, while an overall long-term IDN ccTLD policy is being developed. The IDNC WG has created a Draft Final Report designed to highlight the latest topics and issues that need to be considered in developing (1) a mechanism for the selection of the IDN ccTLD string and (2) a mechanism to designate an IDN ccTLD manager.
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Sunday, 15 June 2008 01:21
Independent reviewer, Westlake Consulting, has submitted a *draft* final report for review and comment. Westlake will present the draft report at a workshop on Monday, 23 June, at the Paris ICANN meeting , and it also has been posted for public comment . The BGC ALAC Review Working Group will discuss the draft report at a workshop on Wednesday, 25 June, at the Paris ICANN meeting . This draft report has not been reviewed by the ICANN Board or the Board Governance Committee. It is being shared for public information prior to it being finalised by Westlake. The final report will be submitted to the Board after the ICANN Paris meeting. Opportunity for public comment on the final report also will be provided. Read more…
Sunday, 15 June 2008 01:13 Sahar Sarid
As with any major release you can imagine, as of today, we’re not yet ready to go live, however, we’re COMMITTED to go live by June 18th. Will we make it? I guess we are all going to find out soon enough!
There are few things you may want to know about the list of domains and our philosophies/ideas as for creating Bido :
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Saturday, 14 June 2008 20:55 Chief Editor
A new Wall Street Journal article is confirming our report that marketing executives are fearful that a new partnership between Google Inc. and Yahoo Inc. may raise advertising rates while reducing control over where their ads are displayed, Furthermore, there is a real concern about what domain monetizers will end up getting paid in the future for the traffic they generate.
Advertisers are most concerned about whether the deal, between the two biggest sellers of search advertising, may affect the pricing of ads that appear alongside search results, a science in which online marketers invest heavily. The prices they pay Google for ads that are linked to searches for various search terms are established through an auction process, and while Google doesn’t set prices manually, some experts sare saying that prices might rise for keywords in situations where Yahoo chooses to blend in Google ads, as more advertisers compete for those terms…
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Saturday, 14 June 2008 07:44 Chief Editor
Today, June 13th, our friends at WebCast1 conducted their weekly domain industry video interview with Darren Cleveland, CEO and President of the Recall Media Group. This is a recorded broadcast. Enjoy!
Related industry links: Recall Media Group, Bido.com, DNZoom By Bido, FuneralHomes.com, FuneralAdvice.com, DomainNews.com, Moniker.com, Webcast1
Source: Posted by Sahar Sahid for DomainNews.com – June13th, 2008
Saturday, 14 June 2008 07:38 Chief Editor
Moniker has just instituted a new submission process for Auction consideration. Please follow this link: Look for the Auction Name click on the link Submit Names for Consideration. Login to your Moniker Account # and follow the instructions.
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Saturday, 14 June 2008 07:30
Automobiles Citroen lodged an ADR complaint against Mark Garrod, through the South African Institute of Intellectual Property Law, for his registration of the domain name Citroen.co.za. Mr Garrod registered citroen.co.za on 16 March 2000. Automobiles Citroen had registered its trade mark in South Africa in 1953 but did not conduct business in South Africa at the date of the registration of citroen.co.za … Read more…
Saturday, 14 June 2008 05:36 Chief Editor
openPR – In April, pizza.com sold for 2.6 million, not to be outdone by fund.com fetching a record $10 million in May by broker Clek Media. Due to record prices being fetched for these 1 word domain names, a new market is emerging for multiple word extensions. Industry giants ArrowBranding.com & BuyDomains.com are seeing record sales for their 2 and 3 word domains. Analysts believe that most decent 2 word domains will be gobbled up by the end of the decade…
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Saturday, 14 June 2008 05:13 Chief Editor
Tralliance Corporation, the dot.travel ( .travel ) top level domain registry believes that they will become increasingly prominent according to chief executive Ed Cespedes. Most domainers would agree that the .travel extension has not succeeded in being adopted universally as the travel industry domain extension. So far only 250,000 dot.travel names have been registered.
“We are seeing dot.travel sites rise in search results and countries such as Egypt adopting it exclusively”, and that is a very promising development for .travel according to Cespedes…
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Saturday, 14 June 2008 05:00 Michael Gilmour
For the past few articles I’ve been using poker as the analogy to explore the options for parking companies when negotiating with Google. As we have seen the balancing act that Google has established between themselves and the parking companies is critical and it just so happens that the easiest solution on how to manage it is to ensure that there are a number of parking companies (players) at the table which are all roughly the same size.
This creates competition in the industry and will mean that Google’s potentially biggest problem is continuously fighting for market share rather than wondering how to stop them from cheating at the game.
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Saturday, 14 June 2008 04:56
In response to community comment and interest, ICANN has developed a proposed allocation framework and use of funds from the allocation of single-character second-level domain names (SC SLDs) in existing gTLDs. ICANN is proposing an auction mechanism and disbursement of funds toward areas of public good for the Internet community. Discussion of proposed allocation methods will involve consultation with gTLD registries. Read more…
Saturday, 14 June 2008 04:50
This is an update on the 2008 ICANN Nominating Committee. The nomination period closed on 15 April 2008. Since then, the Nom Com has been working with its assessment provider, Ray & Berndtson, to review statements of interest, candidate information, and assess candidates based on the job descriptions developed in consultation with the Board, ALAC, ccNSO and GNSO. The Nom Com has conducted four conference calls since 15 April in order to extensively review candidate information and refine its selection processes for the 2008 Nom Com cycle. The Nom Com will select: Read more…
Saturday, 14 June 2008 04:48 Sahar Sarid
There are a number of unique feature in Bido . Although the site is not live yet let me give you an idea of what to expect:
1. Bido is using “Push Technology “. This means you will not need to refresh pages as data is being pushed from our servers to you.
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Saturday, 14 June 2008 04:40 Sahar Sarid
In my last post I wrote about how DNZoom came into existence and the different factors that played a role in the development of getting it off the ground.
Now, I think it pertinent to focus on the present ideology of DnZoom.
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