April 30th, 2009 by 
David Goldstein
Applications are being called for people interested in attending the third European School on Internet Governance (Euro-SSIG ) with applications closing on May 15, 2009. This year’s course is scheduled to run from July 26 to August 1 and will be held in Meissen (near Dresden), Germany. … more
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April 30th, 2009 by David Goldstein
Parked.com has bought the domain development company WhyPark as per the news release below. Parked.com believes the purchase will create synergies between the two companies by combining WhyPark’s strength in developing traffic with Parked.com’s competitive advantage in monetising traffic. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. … more
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April 29th, 2009 by David Goldstein
A small number of registries and registrars are responsible for three-quarters of child porn websites says the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) in their annual report released this week.
The IWF found 74 per cent of child sexual abuse domains they traced are commercial operations selling indecent images of children with 76 per cent of these (some 850 unique domains) are registered with just ten unnamed domain name registries. Of these, five registries and registrars accounted for 55 per cent of all the commercial child sexual abuse domains known to IWF during 2008. … more
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April 29th, 2009 by David Goldstein
Telnic, the registry operator for .TEL, have launched a free Microsoft Outlook plug-in application that will enable anyone with Outlook to have their address book updated dynamically. … more
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April 29th, 2009 by David Goldstein
Afilias have announced via the news release below that they have joined the Messaging Anti-Abuse Working Group (MAAWG) as part of its ongoing domain name anti-abuse efforts. Afilias is the first domain name registry operator to become a member. … more
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April 29th, 2009 by David Goldstein
With Paul Twomey, ICANN’s CEO and President, set to step down from his position at ICANN mid-year, and continuing as a consultant with ICANN till the end of the year, there is undoubtedly going to be speculation as to what his next role will be. … more
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April 28th, 2009 by David Goldstein
Livestream.com was the big seller for Sedo in the week to April 20, selling for US$100,000, with the second biggest seller being jeddah.com, which sold for €45,000 (US$59,200). Next biggest seller was levelup.com ($50,000). … more
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April 28th, 2009 by David Goldstein
Global input and ideas will be on the rise at the 35th International Public Meeting of the ICANN thanks to ICANN’s on-going fellowship program. … more
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April 26th, 2009 by David Goldstein
Anybody thinking of going to the ICANN Sydney meeting in June should check out this promo for the meeting by AusRegistry’s Adrian Kinderis. AusRegistry, along with auDA, are the hosts of the meeting. … more
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April 25th, 2009 by David Goldstein
Telnic, the registry operator for the .tel TLD, announced the launch two new free and open source My.tel applications for Blackberrys and iPhones are now available for download. … more
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April 25th, 2009 by David Goldstein
The Implementation Recommendation Team (IRT) (Members of the IRT are listed here [PDF, 88K]) was formed by ICANN’s Intellectual Property Constituency in accordance with the 6 March, 2009 ICANN Board resolution (icann.org/en/minutes/resolutions-06mar09.htm). The resolution was in response to the request by the community seeking solutions for potential issues for trademark holders in the implementation of new gTLDs. The team reflects experiential and geographic diversity and is comprised of 18 members and two alternates. … more
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April 25th, 2009 by David Goldstein
In accordance with the 6 March, 2009 ICANN Board resolution, the Governmental Advisory Committee (GAC) responded to ICANN’s 17 March, 2009 letter regarding Protection for Geographic Terms in New gTLDs. … more
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April 24th, 2009 by David Goldstein
The Mauritius Government has won control of their ccTLD .MU from Internet Direct Ltd in an agreement reached this week.
“It is a great step for the history of the country”, declared Asraf Dulull, Minister of Information and Communication Technology at the signing ceremony of the agreement to the seat of its ministry. … more
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April 22nd, 2009 by David Goldstein
Xtra Parking has announced they have designed an advanced service called KeyRPM to enhance existing parking program accounts with the aim of maximising revenue.
“The days of set and forget are long gone,” said David Harry, the Founder and CEO of KeyRPM, when discussing the relationship with parking domain names and setting keywords. … more
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April 22nd, 2009 by David Goldstein
DENIC, JPRS and CIRA, the registries for Germany (.de) , Japan (.jp) and Canada (.ca) respectively, among others have each signed contracts with the Internet Systems Consortium agreeing to substantially contribute to the development of BIND10. … more
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