Newsletter 24th April 2008
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Domain Industry EventsA conference from the Domain Industry for the Domain Community!23rd April 2008 – The largest annual domainer meeting will be held at the heart of Paris on the 19th and 20th June 2008, a first for the domain industry in Europe. The event will be held at the Hotel Meridien Montparnasse, only 2 days before ICANN and in the same venue. EuroDNS, Domain Sponsor, Fabulous, dotAsia, Namemedia and Namedrive, to list a few, will be sponsoring this high profile event. The conference will cover major hot topics of worldwide reach and of interest to all participants, such as the impact and evolution of new ccTLDs; the challenges faced by the Aftermarket and the primary market communities, and an in depth presentation of major legal issues (ie: Snowe Bill). There are many panels of discussion that will involve key players and global experts from the domain industry such as Paul keating (RenovaLTD), Jay Westerdal (DomainTools), and Ching Chiao from DotAsia.http://www.domainnews.com/en/g... Domain Industry NewsDomain Round Table - The Journey HomeDomain Round Table had the usual round of sessions that helped educate both the new and the old time domainer. I had the privilege of moderating two of the sessions. The first had panelists from a number of the new monetization companies and we explored not only what the companies had to offer but also where they thought that the domain monetization industry was headed.Read full article Domain Name Redirects opens Door for HackersKatherine Noyes writes on TechNewsWorld that when you make a typo in a domain name, many ISPs re-direct you to a page with sponsored links. It's a way for the ISP to make a little extra cash from your mistake, and it had been considered relatively harmless so far. However, a security researcher has found a way to exploit the arrangement, and it could create an opening for malicious attacks.Read full article Spanish .ES Domains Surpass the 900,000 MarkThe number of registered “.es" domains surpassed the 900,000 mark in March for the first time in its history, after growing by 78.8% in less than one year and a half, counting from December of 2006.Read full article Standard Bank launches .mobi SiteWhile most banks now offer cellphone banking, Standard Bank has launched a range of creative services designed so that anyone with a WAP-enabled cell phone can access them via the Standardbank.mobi site. .mobi means that users can access the Internet site from their phone via GPRS. "Instead of simply replicating our .co.za site, we tried to think about the kind of things that would make sense for a mobile site, especially those relating to convenience and ease of use," says Charles Street, head: mobile channel self-service banking at Standard Bank.Read full article DNJournal releases new Weekly Domain Name Sales ReportThe new weekly domain sales report is out at DNJournal.com. For the second week in a row we saw a sale that was big enough to take a place among the ten biggest reported so far this year. This week's blockbuster went for more than $343,000. .Com had a field day on the all-extension leader board, sweeping 26 of 30 positions.Read full article Google 1st Quarter Results beat Wall Street ExpectationsWe recently reported that Google made changes to their sponsored ad listings and that analysts were attributing those changes to the Google's plumeting stock price. However, today, Google Inc. announced a first-quarter profit increase of 30 percent to surpass analysts' predictions.Read full article New Domain News siteYou will enjoy the improved features and the more intuitive and easier navigation of the site. The look and feel is also more attractive, and we have made sure the colors and identity stayed the same. The News stories and major categories appear more clearly and the closing auctions are all listed on the site. You will now be able to get to the archives, FAQs and other areas of interest more easily. Discover and experience the new site by yourself… For more information, don’t hesitate to contact editor@domainnews.com |
EuroDNS In-Depth LookDotAsia Landrush Auction starts!
23rd April 2008 - The Landrush auction process has started for .Asia domain names and any customers, who have applied for a .Asia domain going through the auction, can now bid from the AsiaDNS website.
Any domain name that has been ordered during the Landrush phase might have entered the "open auction" process. If this is the case, the order will stay pending until the auction is over. In some other cases, for example when nobody has placed a bid during the auction, the domain might become available again after it has passed the auction phase.
Regarding the pending DotAsia Domains that have not gone through the auction yet, they will be scheduled by the registry in the following weeks. The applicants will be informed by email.
EuroDNS News.ME Sunrise Period is coming up!.ME is the new extension for Montenegro and EuroDNS has just been accredited by the .ME registry. The registry will begin accepting .ME applications in May, for the start of what is known as the General Sunrise Period, a time when only trademark owners can apply. However, registrars who sign up before that time can start accepting Sunrise and Landrush applications and pre-registration requests, as soon as they’d like. As was the case with .ASIA, multiple parties will be allowed to submit applications for the same domain name. Domain names that receive more than one application will go to an auction process. .ME Registry officials today announced the roll-out plan for .ME, the new domain name extension. .ME is expected to be utilized as both a personalized Web address and as a catchy business marketing tool around the world.The .ME Landrush is targeted to begin in early June, with Open Registration commencing on a first-come, first-served basis in mid-July. Two-year minimums are required on all .ME domain names registered during the Landrush and initial Open Registration periods. The complete .ME roll-out schedule is as follows:Join us at INTA 2008 in Berlin!EuroDNS, in partnership with PricewaterhouseCoopers, Freylinger and eBrand Services, is holding a one day workshop about: Luxembourg - The right place for your trademarks and domain names. Join us on May 20th, 2008 at the Maritim proArte Hotel in Berlin. Learn everything about Luxembourg’s new tax incentives and how to optimize your Domain Names’ growth: • Optimize your taxes on intellectual property revenues, the Luxembourg Advantage By PricewaterhouseCoopers. • Structure your intellectual property at the heart of Europe, By Office Ernest Freylinger. • Dots for your ™. Build your domain strategy to maximize your R.O.I, By eBrand Services. • 272 extensions and counting. The right tools to manage domains worldwide, By EuroDNS. Tax & Trademarks Session 9:00am to 10:30am / 1:30pm to 3:00 pm and Domain Name Session 10:45am to 12pm / 3:15pm to 4:30pm Each session will take place at the Maritim proArte Hotel, Friedrichstrasse 151. Feel free to stop by or contact INTA@eurodns.com for more information. |
