If you work for a domain name registry or registrar you often find yourself trying to explain what you do to friends and family. While you might love your job and think the DNS is "fascinating" the reality is that most people's eyes glaze over. This Japanese advert puts an amusing spin on the entire thing: Love it! … [Read more...] about Funny Domain Advert
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CIRA Releases New Cheeky Ad Campaign
CIRA, the .ca (Canada) domain name registry has released a new advert for a television advertising campaign. The campaign is build around the hashtag #DontBeATraitor and I hope they do more of these. I love the concept of pushing a country code on the basis of national pride and loyalty so I really like this video ad: What do you think? Personally I think anyone … [Read more...] about CIRA Releases New Cheeky Ad Campaign
WHD Global Releases Parody Video
WHD Global are obviously having a lot of fun producing videos in the run up to this year's "cloud festival" in Germany. Their latest release follows in the footsteps of several European countries that want to be put second, assuming that America is first. So here's the WHD entry to the competition, if there was a competition .. https://youtu.be/Iy84ZdK29wI The video … [Read more...] about WHD Global Releases Parody Video
John Oliver Just Gave DotNYC Free Advertising
Unless you've been living under a rock for the last few months you're probably aware of John Oliver's hilarious TV show "Last Week Tonight". It airs on HBO at 11pm, but has also been picked up by Sky and other channels overseas - plus, since it's 2014, most of the content is also available on YouTube a few hours after airing. Last night one of the segments focussed on former … [Read more...] about John Oliver Just Gave DotNYC Free Advertising
String Confusion Explained
Dirk from dotBerlin has posted a very funny, but also scarily accurate, graphic that illustrates how inconsistent some of the decisions handed down have been. You can read about the review process here Hat tip to Kevin who spotted this … [Read more...] about String Confusion Explained
Humor: ICANN’s New Decision Tree
While the volume of material coming out from the various ICANN parody accounts on Twitter may have dropped considerably in the last few months, some of the content is hilarious. Here's one from @icannlegal - and no, it's definitely NOT ICANN's legal department https://twitter.com/icannlegal/status/378632760430055424 In case the Twitter account gets culled here's the … [Read more...] about Humor: ICANN’s New Decision Tree
New TLDs The Movie
Pinky of DomainDiction put out a short tongue in cheek "trailer" earlier today. Enjoy: It uses some of our graphics from DotWhat.co :) The "draw" is taking place today in LA Related articles New gTLD lottery tickets now on sale (domainincite.com) … [Read more...] about New TLDs The Movie
Bob Recstrum Speaks On New TLDs
So while Rod Beckstrom may not have been saying much about the TAS outage his parody alter-ego Bob Recstrum has been having fun (at his expense) Today, following the announcement of a date for TAS re-opening: #Newgtlds update: I am pleased to announce a new Reveal Day. On 30 June, I will reveal what my plans are for the future #latersuckers — Bob Recstrum … [Read more...] about Bob Recstrum Speaks On New TLDs
ICANN TAS Outage Parody
I guess it was inevitable that someone would do this at some point, so here it is. … [Read more...] about ICANN TAS Outage Parody