Newsletter 9th May 2008
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Domain Industry EventsA conference from the Domain Industry for the Domain Community!J- 43 – With more than 300 visitors expected, the Domainer Meeting in Paris (www.domainermeeting.com) is going to be the largest European Domainer Meeting event for the domain industry and community. It will be held on the 19th and 20th June 2008 in Paris, only 2 days before the ICANN meeting, to happen in the same Hotel. Some major sponsors and key players of the industry have already decided to take part in this high profile conference: Fabulous, InternetX, TrafficZ, EuroDNS, Domain Sponsor, Namedrive, Namemedia, Nameintel, dotMobi, dotAsia, EP Services, Fusu, Realtime, Modern Domainer, Renova, Streamic, Dinamon and DDC. SnapNames, a recognized global leader in aftermarket domain name auctions, will host a Live Auction on Friday. The auction will include an impressive selection of premier domain names. The final list will be available soon. The Thursday Night Party will be held in one of Paris most trendy and fashionable clubs. The details on this event are kept secret and will only be revealed a few weeks before the start of the conference… This is your chance to Sign Up as a major Sponsor for the Domainer Meeting in Paris, only 2 days before ICANN, and to be at the heart of one of 2008 most influential event. You will have the opportunity to meet the decision makers of the industry and be at the forefront of key decisions and ideas. For more information, check here:www.domainermeeting.com... Domain Industry NewsThe Best Domain Content - 2008 Webby Award ResultsOn Tuesday this week the Webby Award results were made public. The best domains were honored in various categories and we want to make sure you don't miss some of these excellent sites.Read full article Meet the New Domainer Web GiantsSlowly but surely domainers are building the next web. While building a business is extremely demanding the rewards can be extremely rewarding.Read full article Rumor Confirmed: Thought Convergence acquires Name IntelligenceLos Angeles, CA and Seattle, WA — Thought Convergence, the industry-leading provider of domain management, monetization and development tools and technologies for premium domain owners and aggregators of high-quality domain portfolios, announced today that it has completed its acquisition of Name Intelligence, the company behind the highly-acclaimed DomainTools service and the Domain Roundtable conference.Read full article Why You Should ALWAYS Buy Your Business's Domain NamesWhen you own your own business, the worst thing that can happen to you in today's online world is to see one of your unhappy customers register your business' domain name to smear your reputation and business name in front of the online community.Read full article Google's unhealthy Dominance will EndGiven Google's dominance of online advertising, and search, this article in The Times may interest readers. With Google's online search share rising to 60 per cent in recent weeks and its revenue rising by 42 per cent to US$5.2 billion in the last quarter, it also has plans for mobile phones, "social networking tools and its own version of Wikipedia - not to mention the other web giants, such as Doubleclick, that it keeps buying - and you can understand why Google feared the renewed challenge that a well-resourced, large-scale competitor would pose to its ability, in effect, to control the information age."Read full article Microsoft-Yahoo Merger Turns Sour and Google helpedAs promised, we are keeping you up to date on the development of the Microsoft-Yahoo deal or no deal story. Microsoft and Yahoo were pushed to the brink of a multibillion-dollar marriage and then this weekend to a sudden breakup.Read full article Celebrity in Cyberspace: A Personality Rights Paradigm for Personal Domain Name DisputesAbstract: ... This article suggests that if personal names merit legal protection in cyberspace, it should be under an appropriate set of legal rules, rather than through further expansion of trademarks. This Article develops a new framework for personal domain name disputes based on the theories underlying the right of publicity tort.Read full article DNJournal releases weekly Domain Name Sales Report - April 29thThe new weekly domain sales report is out. Rick Latona sold MeetPeople.com for six figures to claim the #1 spot on our latest Top 20 chart. SearchEngines.com came close to hitting six figures as well and settled into the #2 slot. The all extension leader board had a pair of ccTLDs, a .net, a .org and a .mobi scattered in among the 15 .coms.Read full article Modern Domainer Magazine Launches ModernDomainer.TVModern Domainer Magazine webmaster, Rob Heath, has been working overtime editing domain industry interviews from Miami, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Las Vegas that were compiled from October 2007 through February 2008.Read full article |
EuroDNS In-Depth Look.ME Domain Sunrise and Landrush applications with EuroDNS
As of today .ME domains are open for registration.
You can participate to the sunrise with any trademark that has been registered or applied for prior to the 28th June 2006. You can also start submitting your .ME domain for the Landrush period, which will officially start on the 6th June.
The Sunrise applications can be sent from now till the 20th May (price: 175€/year, minimum 5 years)
The Landrush applications can be sent from now till the 26th June (price: 48€/year, minimum 2 years)
The registry has created a list of names which are not possible to submit: the Premium names (http://www.domen.me/cms/site_files/dotME_Premium_Names.txt) and the reserved names (http://www.domen.me/cms/site_files/dotME_Reserved_Names.txt).
All other names can be submitted and domains that get more than one application will go into auction process. All names that only get one application will be automatically assigned to the applicant.
EuroDNS NewsImportant! .Asia auctions extendedRealizing that April 28th to May 5th was Japan’s golden week and May 1st to May 7th was China’s golden week, the .Asia Organization wants to be considerate of these holiday’s. To provide all auction participants with an equal opportunity, the auction period has therefore been extended by the Registry for all auctions that were scheduled to close between April 28th and May 2nd by two weeks. For example, if your auction was originally scheduled to close on April 28th it will now be scheduled to close on May 12th. In addition, the start date has been extended by 2 weeks for all auctions that were originally scheduled to start between April 28th and May 2nd. These auctions will now be scheduled to start between May 12th and May 16th and will close between May 19th and May 22nd.Join us at INTA 2008 in Berlin!EuroDNS, in partnership with PricewaterhouseCoopers, Office Freylinger and eBrand Services, is holding a one day workshop presenting: 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 (PricewaterhouseCoopers). • Structure your intellectual property at the heart of Europe (Office Ernest Freylinger). • Dots for your ™. Build your domain strategy to maximize your R.O.I, (eBrand Services). • 272 extensions and counting. The right tools to manage domains worldwide (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.WIN US$10,000!DotAsia has just unveiled first-of-its-kind Hot or Not Domains Appraisal Contest! To take part in the Hot or Not contest, just use EuroDNS REF IDENTITY: CODE - R36 Enter the code into: http://hotornot.domains.asia/contest_form.html and Good Luck! To win, YOU must pick domain(s) that receive the highest winning bid in both .Asia Sunrise and Landrush auctions AND hold the closest predictions to the actual auction winnings. .ASIA is giving out up to US$15,000 in Cash Prizes! Weekly contest will start in May for special cash prizes; a Grand Prize of US$10,000 for the final contest winner will be given out during the ICANN meetings in Paris. Registrars are free to enter too!Meet us in Orlando at Targeted Traffic!EuroDNS's Executive Vice President for International Business Development Frederick Schiwek will take part in a Panel about registrar risk and secure Domain Registration. He will explain the advantages of Luxembourg. Learn why the safe and legal friendly environment of Luxembourg is the best place for you! See here for more: |
