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SIDN have announced the outcomes of the 2008 Domain Name Debate including the recently introduced new rules for non-Dutch registrants on the use of a Dutch domicile address that was implemented back in October. Changes include a reduction in the amount of Whois data made available, ability to reserve a .NL domain name and dropping [...]

Dark Blue Sea has recently accepted the revised Photon Group offer of 35 cent per share.So,in the absence of a higher offer,Dark Blue Sea and Photon will close the deal on Monday 14 December 2009. Tim Hughes,Photon’s Executive Chairman said : “We believe that this revised recommended offer provides certainly to DBS shareholders,staff and customers.We urge [...]

30 November 2009 On Wednesday, 25 November 2009, ICANN terminated its accreditation agreement with three registrars — Hosting365 Inc., OOO “Russian Registrar” and R.B. Data Net LTD for failure to comply with the requirements of the Registrar Accreditation Agreement (RAA). The RAA is the contract between ICANN and registrars [...]

As the result of the Notices of Termination issued on November 25, 2009 to registrars OOO Russia (IANA ID 1238) and Hosting365 Inc. (IANA ID 956), ICANN is seeking expressions of interest from ICANN-accredited registrars that might wish to assume sponsorship of the gTLD names that were previously managed by these registrars. This request for [...]

One of the things that is making me pretty happy recently is the fact that our zero-click platform Elephant Traffic has finally broken even for the first time in the month of July. This month we will be actually profitable, doing about $20-30k EBITDA in the month. That isn’t obviously a big sum, but I [...]

Over the past few years I’ve come to the realization that domaining has made a lot of my domainer friends very dysfunctional (myself included to a certain extent). They have simply got used to the easy money that they can derive from domains and their dark brain matter slowly starts deteriorating away. They lose their motivation [...]

With the huge boom of smart phones there has been a huge surge in mobile type-in traffic. The sad part is that no parking company has become inventive in monetizing it.  Mobile traffic is very specific and shouldn’t be monetized in the same way as standard internet traffic, not just only because of the specifics of [...]

When Rick Latona & co stormed into the domain auction game with sealing a deal to organize the TRAFFIC conferences, I sort of felt Moniker was losing its drive in the live auction game.  Fast forward a year or so and I think Moniker is back in full strength. Monte just sent me a list of [...]