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“dotMobi, a consortium to offer the first and only Internet address created for mobile phones, today announced that Visa International has made an investment in dotMobi and will have a representative on dotMobi’s Board of Directors. This investment adds Visa to a consortium that already represents 13 leading mobile operators, network & device manufacturers, and internet content providers. ” Press release here
The BBC is reporting internet advertising in the UK during 2006 surged 41.2% to £2 billion to pass national newspaper advertising for the first time.
VeriSign has asked ICANN to permit a new DNS Update Service for registrars and others. Notice of new Service (.pdf)
Rob Hall CEO of Momentous.ca made a very good presentation yesterday
at the ICANN Public meeting in Lisbon in which he looked at how the domain expiry process has evolved over the last few years.
Momentous.ca ICANN Tutorial - Changes in the expiry process (.pdf)
Domisfera has interviewed Benjamin Blumenthal, Director of Marketing at Telnic the company behind .tel.
The interview explains what sets .tel apart from other tlds.
Interfax is reporting - MOSCOW. March 23 - The number of domain names registered in the .ru zone (www.name.ru) has reached 800,000, the company RU-Center, the largest registrar of Russian domain names, told Interfax.
Neustar has announced it intends to deploy IDNs for both Japanese and Chinese languages from the 21st April, 2007 - Press release here
TechWorld is reporting - Niue, a tiny island in the Pacific Ocean, claims that its internet domain, .nu, was stolen by an American businessman, and they want it back.
NEW YORK–(BUSINESS WIRE)–News Corporation and NBC Universal will launch the largest Internet video distribution network ever assembled with the most sought-after content from television and film…
The video-rich site will debut this summer with thousands of hours of full-length programming, movies and clips, representing premium content from at least a dozen networks and two major film studios.
AOL, MSN, MySpace and Yahoo! will be the new site’s initial distribution partners. Their users, who represent 96 percent of the monthly U.S. unique users on the Internet, will have unlimited access to the site’s vast library of content.
This media alliance will offer consumers free long- and short-form video and create a compelling platform for advertisers, targeting the rapidly growing audience of online video consumers.
Charter advertisers include Cadbury Schweppes, Cisco, Esurance, Intel and General Motors.
Full press release here
Afilias has just posted a press release confirming the number of .info domains as we reported last month has past 4,000,000 registrations.
The press release contains an analysis report which has some interesting stats
including a graph showing the number of registrations over time since 2002
The reports highlights include
•.INFO sites are active - 74 percent of .INFO sites are active, including over 1 million dedicated sites. This figure is an increase from 65 percent in 2004.
•Wide distribution channel promotes .INFO sales - .INFO’s availability is expanding as the domain is now available for sale through 183 registrars worldwide.
•.INFO is becoming characteristic of the global domain name market - North America is the top market for .INFO domain sales (51 percent) with Europe closely in second place (38 percent). The US is the top country for .INFO registrations (48 percent) followed
by Germany (11 percent).
•.INFO is increasing in aftermarket sales - The highest aftermarket sale on record for .INFO was NewYork.info which sold for over US$46,000 in September 2006.
Sometimes its good to try and visualise the the domain industry. Here is a list showing the relative size by numbers of domains registered) of the the worlds largest registrars.
1 Go Daddy Software - 16,322,370
2 eNom - 7,177,819
3 Network Solutions - 6,648,715
4 Tucows - 5,717,664
5 Melbourne IT - 4,404,239
6 Schlund+Partner - 3,229,846
7 Register.com - 2,756,129
8 Wild West Domains - 2,244,088
9 Moniker Online Services - 1,967,207
10 DomainDoorman - 1,845,374
11 Belgiumdomains, LLC - 1,773,561
12 CapitolDomains - 1,756,673
13 PublicDomainRegistry.com - 1,560,582
14 Intercosmos Media - 1,289,904
15 OnlineNIC, Inc. - 1,096,358
16 Key-Systems GmbH - 1,085,710
17 Dotster - 1,068,231
18 Dotregistrar.com - 962,333
19 NameKing.com - 934,874
20 RegisterFly.com, Inc. - 900,355
21 DomainDiscover - 867,274
22 Fabulous.com Pty Ltd - 850,772
23 Xin Net Corp - 699,720
24 Cronon AG - 653,746
25 Compana LLC - 652,607
26 ItsYourDomain.com - 610,333
27 joker.com - 583,728
28 DomainSite.com - 537,920
29 PSI-USA, Inc. - 507,194
30 Name.net LLC - 480,991
The sheer scale of Tasting and Kiting means the figures at some registrars are subject to much greater change than happened a couple of years ago.
In a well written mainstream media article the Financial Times takes a look at the ownership of domains.
Reuters is reporting Microsoft is to buy privately held Tellme Networks Inc., a speech technology company, to bolster its communications push and enhance searches over mobile phones.
Terms were not disclosed but undisclosed sources valued the Tellme at over $800m
“Mobile search is going to be a huge market,” said Morningstar analyst Toan Tran. “Search on mobile phones is still up for grabs and Microsoft is a big believer in voice being an interface for mobile phones.”
Dan Nunes (Engineer) and Shane Keats (Research Analyst) at McAfee SiteAdvisor have produced a paper analysing the global distribution of malware, and produced some very nice graphical/visual risk assessment analysis.
The Nokia Ad Service is launching this week in Europe and will be available globally in the second half of 2007.
The Nokia Ad service
“As advertisers struggle to reach personalized targeting with traditional media such as print and TV, mobile advertising is becoming an increasingly attractive channel for brands,” said Tom Henriksson, Director of Nokia Ad Service at Nokia Emerging Business Unit. “We have completed a number of pilot campaigns with advertisers and mobile publishers for testing the Nokia ad serving technology and consumer experience. The feedback has been very positive from all parties.”
Nokia Advertising Connector
“With Nokia Advertising Connector we are partnering with newspaper publishers, other traditional media companies, aggregators, platform companies, operators and internet companies to help them serve their current advertisers by offering easy access to a mobile audience” says Matthew Snyder, Head of Business Development, Nokia Multimedia, Advertising Business Program. “We have an aggregator interface for plugging partners’ platforms into the Connector - Nokia being in the role of platform service provider. Think of the Connector as a one-stop delivery point with intelligence”.
Google Maps has teamed up with BMW to allow their customers in Germany to send business listings found on Google Maps Deutschland directly to cars enabled with the BMW Assist service.
Verisgn has released it’s Domain Name Industry Brief report analysing the 4th quarter of 2006. It contains some very interesting statistics
of 66,871,556 domains analysed
23% were parked sites
63% had live sites
14% had no website
At the end of 2006 2.1 million .com and .net registrations were added per month growing the total .com and .net registrations to over 65 million. And the total registrations for all gTLDs and ccTLDs exceeded 120 million for the first time.
The largest TLDs by size .com, .net, .de, .uk, .org and .info
