Kieren McCarthy was interviewed by Monte Cahn on Webmasterradio a couple of weeks ago. It’s well worth listening to (mp3) Kieren talks about his book on the sex.com battle, his role in ICANN and gives some very interesting insights into the domain industry. You may not agree with everything he says, but you can’t deny… Continue reading Kieren McCarthy on Sex.com, ICANN and the domain industry
Category: Domains
co.uk passes 6 million domains
In the last week Nominet has reported that the six millionth domain has been registered. For a ccTLD that’s an impressive figure by any estimation. Detailed stats are available on their site It would be interesting to see what percentage of registrants are UK based, as the registry has an open policy (the registrant class… Continue reading co.uk passes 6 million domains
Dublin.mobi – Will They Take it?
Caroline Greer has announced that 650 .mobi city names will be made available towards the end of August. The full list may be seen here (PDF) and includes dublin.mobi Local authorities will be able to make use of the domains, unlike what happened with so many city / place names in the .eu namespace: These… Continue reading Dublin.mobi – Will They Take it?
Apple Pays Over The Odds For Iphone.com
Before you launch a new product or service it makes sense to check the domains. If you don’t own them, then maybe you can acquire them before your product launch. Apple obviously didn’t think that one through …. Iphone.com has been registered for over a decade, but they didn’t think to contact its owner prior… Continue reading Apple Pays Over The Odds For Iphone.com
ICANN San Juan – New gTLD Frustration
The ICANN meeting in San Juan drew to a close yesterday. As can be expected ICANN released a number of press releases and statements and these are now being scrutinised by the domain industry. Bret Fausett, for example, is not overly impressed with Paul Twomey’s statement on new gTLDs: ICANN’s President Paul Twomey has declared… Continue reading ICANN San Juan – New gTLD Frustration
Digg Style Site For Domain Industry Launches
Via Michael Gilmour comes news of a new “digg style” site for the domain / domainer industry – DNHour.com This could be very big or a complete damp squid – it will all depend on the takeup in the community. The site seems to be using Pligg, which is an open source PHP/MySQL script for… Continue reading Digg Style Site For Domain Industry Launches
ICANN Dropping Fees?
According to a post on Jay Westerdal’s blog ICANN are to drop their fees per domain later this year. The announced reduction will be from 22 cents (US) to 20 cents (US) per domain. Unfortunately, as mentioned previously, the registries will be upping their prices later this year, so while ICANN maybe cutting the cost… Continue reading ICANN Dropping Fees?
Mapping ICANN
ICANN is an international organisation, but how international is it really? If reading lists with lots of text is hard work, then maybe a more visual representation of the same data might be easier to digest. ICANN have made available a collection of maps that show a wealth of information about the domain world: *… Continue reading Mapping ICANN
ICANN Focus On Registrants
In the aftermath of the RegisterFly fiasco there has been a lot of discussion of how best to protect registrants should a registrar fail. When the .travel registry had financial issues the issue of registry failure made it onto the agenda. The ICANN meeting in San Juan this week is not without discussions of these… Continue reading ICANN Focus On Registrants
TRAFFIC Auction
Frank is covering the auction at TRAFFIC today. You can also listen in on WebmasterRadio.fm A couple of sales I noticed: blogging.com – $35k IrishWhiskey.com – $8k