A LOT of the domain name bloggers have been talking about the launch of .xyz over the last few days. Prior to the launch Daniel Negari posted an article on his blog, which of course uses a .xyz domain, and was very optimistic about how the TLD would fare. I don't know Daniel Negari personally, although we have met a couple of times over the last couple of years. What I … [Read more...] about XYZ’s Launch Day Video
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.Paris Pioneers Go Live Tomorrow
It looks like around 100 .paris domain names will be going live tomorrow as part of the .paris "pioneer" program. Here are some of the well known names that will be first to get their .paris domain name: RATP - the Parisian transport authority has managed to get metro.paris (no that link won't work just yet) Palais Omnisports de Paris-Bercy have managed to get … [Read more...] about .Paris Pioneers Go Live Tomorrow
DotGlobal’s James Bondesque Video
The .global registry released this video a couple of weeks ago. I'm not sure if I love it or hate it, but it's definitely better than some of the ones I've seen so far .. Enjoy: http://youtu.be/yFblFlOe7fY … [Read more...] about DotGlobal’s James Bondesque Video
DotCEO’s Latest Video
The guys from DotCEO have now enabled embedding of their videos, so here's the latest one they released: http://youtu.be/OONKMHkLras … [Read more...] about DotCEO’s Latest Video
DotCEO Announce Sunrise and Release New Video
PeopleBrowsr (sic) have announced the .ceo sunrise as well as releasing yet another video. And yet again they've disable embedding, which for a company that's supposedly "social" is an odd choice .. Anyway .. here's the release: dotCEO - the only TLD to convey both authority and power - will be marketed to brand leaders, 20 million business leaders globally and … [Read more...] about DotCEO Announce Sunrise and Release New Video
Pool Wins More Contracts In Europe
Pool has announced today another two wins in Europe. They've been contracted to handle the auctions for both .wien (Vienna the capital of Austria) and .tirol (Tyrol, which is a region in Austria). They previously announced they'd been selected by . شبكة.(dot Shabaka) and DNS Belgium for .brussels and .vlaanderen. The two Austrian "geo" TLDs will be among the earliest … [Read more...] about Pool Wins More Contracts In Europe
Domain Pulse Release Schedule
Domain Pulse takes place every year in either Germany, Austria or Switzerland. The event is organised by and hosted by DENIC, nic.at and SWITCH. Next year's event is being held on February 20th and 21st in Salzburg, Austria. The preliminary agenda has just been released and covers topics that should be of interest to anyone who follows the domain industry in … [Read more...] about Domain Pulse Release Schedule
DNS Belgium Chooses Pool.com
DNS Belgium, which is running both .brussels and .vlaanderen have announced their choice of auction provider. They've chosen Canadian company Pool.com to handle their domain name auctions for situations where there are more than one applicants for the same domain: During the first phase (‘sunrise 1’) brand owners, authorities, companies and associations can register a … [Read more...] about DNS Belgium Chooses Pool.com
Telnic Increasing Wholesale Price by $1
Telnic, the .tel registry, have informed registrars that the wholesale rate for .tel domain names will be increased by $1 per year from $8 / year to $9/year effective December 1 2013. How are they justifying such a hefty price increase? This increase takes into account inflation rates and the continuing maintenance, development and provision of the Community Telhosting … [Read more...] about Telnic Increasing Wholesale Price by $1
DotGreen Is No More
Kevin reported on this last night. As you can see from the reactions to his post a lot of people are surprised, shocked and even quite upset that the DotGreen application has been withdrawn. It's not the only application for the string, which is why it was withdrawn, but to many people in the ICANN space it was the applicant everyone associated with the string. The … [Read more...] about DotGreen Is No More