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Minds and Machines Launch At ICANN Mexico

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It's always nice to see new ventures launching, but that is especially true when you know most of the actors involved.Minds and Machines, which launched this weekend during the ICANN meeting in Mexico, is aimed at assisting companies and organisations navigate the new gTLD application process, as well as offering a registry services backend. Put another way, if you want to get … [Read more...] about Minds and Machines Launch At ICANN Mexico

Keep Track of ICANN Mexico via Twitter

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Image via WikipediaIf like me you cannot attend the ICANN meeting in Mexico City, then you are probably looking for other methods for keeping track of goings on.Twitter, which has become one of the most popular social networks,  has been adopted by both ICANN staff and many of the meeting delegates. You can find out what is going on by following the hashtag #IMX Related … [Read more...] about Keep Track of ICANN Mexico via Twitter

Nominet PAB Election Takes A Strange Turn

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Nominet was expected to announce the nominations for the PAB election this afternoon. What we got instead took me by surprise.Since there were only three nominations put forward by the deadline all three get appointed without any election, leaving one free seat on the PAB.In other words, there won't be a PAB election this year.Considering how vocal some Nominet members were in … [Read more...] about Nominet PAB Election Takes A Strange Turn

Getting To Grips With DotTel

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With .tel domains expected to "go live" in dns very soon Telnic have made available a number of resources to help people make the best use of their .tel domain(s).The updated "community" page on the Telnic site provides access to a range of useful information:The domains will 'go live' (resolve to the DNS and work when you enter them online) no later than March 6th, 2009. Your … [Read more...] about Getting To Grips With DotTel

ICANN Goes Mobile For Mexico Meeting

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ICANN announced their new mobile site earlier today just in time for the upcoming public meeting in Mexico city.The new ICANN mobile site which has been setup with the assistance of dotMobi, contains information of relevance to delegates attending the public meeting in Mexico.I know from previous ICANN meetings that I can never remember when / where things were on, but I always … [Read more...] about ICANN Goes Mobile For Mexico Meeting

Aftermarket Survey Users

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Aftermarket.com are currently conducting a survey of their users. If you complete it (and it really does take about 10 minutes) you can enter for a draw to win $500 of credit, which isn't bad.A lot of the questions relate to how you would like to buy and sell domains via an aftermarket provider, but what makes this survey different is that there are no compulsory questions that … [Read more...] about Aftermarket Survey Users

Mexican Registry Announces Grandfather Option For .mx

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The Mexican domain registry recently announced that they would be making available domain registrations in the top level ie. directly under .mx. At present most domains are registered under a second level, so people end up with company.co.mxThe ability to register directly under .mx should make for some interesting development in the MX namespace when it becomes available later … [Read more...] about Mexican Registry Announces Grandfather Option For .mx

Bido Spam DNForum Users

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Image by Getty Images via DaylifeWhile I've mentioned Bido in the past, as I thought it was a cool idea, I won't be in the future.Why not?Because they seem to think it's ok to send spam to members of DNForum. If you want to market your website spamming people about it is NOT the way to do it.Bido claim to be "revolutionary", but spam is hardly a revolution and sending a mass PM … [Read more...] about Bido Spam DNForum Users