August 4th, 2008 by 
David Goldstein
Domainer’s Magazine has launched a new website that allows viewers to post their own articles, comment on articles and view real time auctions from several top auction houses in real time.
Domainer’s Magazine, the original premier print magazine for the domaining industry, is pleased to announce that they have raised the bar yet again in the domain media industry. They have launched a new website that allows viewers to post their own articles, comment on articles and view real time auctions from several top auction houses in real time. … more
July 31st, 2008 by Chloe Li
Instra Corporation, a world leading domain provider is proud to be one of the first registrars accredited with the .ae Domain Administration (aeDA), the new registry operator of the .AE domain namespace.
aeDA has officially announced 3rd Aug 2008 as the official launch date of their Registry-Registrar Domain Name System, … more
July 31st, 2008 by Michael Lawrence
The 2008 publication of the Macau Information and Communications Technology Survey which was released this week showed that the internet penetration rate has increased sharply, but experts said local internet resources were still weak.
Published by the University of Macau’s (UM) Macau Internet Research Project, the survey reported that as of the end of 2007, the local penetration rate of internet reached 64 percent in which the “digital divide index” continued on the fall from 0.32 in 2006 to 0.28 in 2007.
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July 30th, 2008 by David Goldstein
Request For Information: ICANN Seeks Expressions of Interest from Registrars to Receive Bulk Transfer of Names from De-Accredited Registrar #1 Domain Names International, Inc. dba 1dni.com
As the result of the de-accreditation of #1 Domain Names International, Inc. dba 1dni.com (IANA ID 101), ICANN is seeking Statements of Interest from ICANN-accredited registrars that are interested in assuming sponsorship of the gTLD names that had been managed by #1 Domain Names International, Inc. dba 1dni.com. … more
July 30th, 2008 by David Goldstein
ICANN’s Contractual Compliance Department publishes its second semi-annual Registrar and Registry Contractual Compliance Audit Report. This report summarizes ICANN’s audit activities from October 2007 through June 2008. During this period, ICANN conducted three registrar contractual compliance audits and one registry contractual compliance audit. ICANN conducted each audit by following consistent audit procedures established before each audit commenced. This report contains details regarding the audit methodology, findings, observations and conclusions. … more
July 30th, 2008 by David Goldstein
There has been a lot of interest in the international media regarding the International Olympic Committee’s disclosure “that some of its officials had struck a deal with Beijing organisers, allowing the Communist authorities to block sensitive internet sites” as reported by The Times. … more
July 30th, 2008 by Michael Lawrence
Effective August 1, 2008, Bentley will transition out of his operational role at Sedo, but will remain close to the company in a non-operative role as Strategic Advisor.
“Together with Sedo’s founders, Matt has played an important role in helping Sedo become the recognized, global domain marketplace leader it is today,” said Tim Schumacher, CEO and co-founder of Sedo. “Matt will no doubt continue to be a tremendous asset to Sedo in his new advisory role. We thank him for his years of dedication and wish him success in his future endeavors.”
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July 30th, 2008 by Michael Lawrence
Having a domain name which has been penalised or delisted by search engines in the past can damage rankings, an article has revealed.
Talking to Practical Ecommerce, Chris Stump from Onlyhammocks.com revealed that despite months of search engine optimisation just a few of his hundreds of pages had been indexed by Yahoo!, Google and MSN, and those were appearing well down in search rankings.
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July 28th, 2008 by David Goldstein
ICANN is posting the summary [PDF, 85K] and final report [PDF, 561K] of the Independent Review of the ALAC submitted by Westlake Consulting. These documents will be available shortly in multiple languages.
ICANN is seeking public comment on the report. Details on the public comment forum can be found here. … more
July 28th, 2008 by Michael Lawrence
Ethoca has seen firsthand how the effects of e-commerce fraud extend well beyond the loss of a physical product or dollar amount,” said Andre Edelbrock, CEO, Ethoca. “We’re pleased that the Global Fraud-Fighting Community is broadening to protect digital distribution markets and encompass the experiences of Sedo’s global consumer base. We hope Sedo’s leadership in digital property will propel other forward-looking businesses in this area to join the fight.”
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July 25th, 2008 by Michael Lawrence
Contestants on TV’s Dragon’s Den may face a tough grilling from Duncan Bannatyne et al, but there’s one important question that has never been asked on the programme.
Domain name company Sedo has claimed that while the Dragons focus on issues such as financials and product patents, they don’t ever think about domain names.
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A report from Google has counted there are more than one trillion unique URLs, as opposed to domain names, reports IDG. Google openly admit they do not index every one of these pages “many of them are similar to each other, or represent auto-generated content … that isn’t very useful to searchers,” wrote Jesse Alpert and Nissan Hajaj, software engineers in Google’s Web Search Infrastructure Team. 