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The RAA (Registrar Acreditation Agreement) is the contract that governs the relationship between ICANN and its accredited registrars. The current version was put in place in May 2001. The same contract is in place between ICANN and each of the more than 900 accredited registrars.
ICANNis holding a consultation looking for ideas and input on amendments to the RAA and the registrar accreditation process in order to provide additional protection to registrants.
Details of the consultation process, are available on ICANN”s website at http://www.icann.org/topics/raa/
A 30 day comment period has been established and comments can be found at http://forum.icann.org/lists/raa-consultation/
Interbrand.com has published its annual ranking of the 100 best global brands. Coca-Cola retains the No. 1 spot and Google outpaces the pack for the second straight year.
At its annual meeting Microsoft announced its acquisition of AdECN, a stock market for buyers and sellers of web advertising.
CNN has brief details - (terms not disclosed)
The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Business.com has sold for between $340 million and $360 million.
“The Web’s original high-price domain name has been sold again — for another lofty price.
“Telephone-directory company R.H. Donnelley Corp. clinched a deal for Web-based marketing directory Business.com Inc. for between $340 million and $360 million, according to a person familiar with the transaction.”
Editted: - CNN has more on business.com business model
Press Release
“London, UK, 26 June 2007 - TomTom, the world’s largest navigation solutions provider, and Vodafone UK today announce that they will jointly develop a new traffic information system that will deliver superior travel time information.
Interesting - One to revisit and take a closer look at in 6 months…
Sedo has just announced the sale of Travel.info for $116,000 Details and press release at DomainNews.com
The London Times has a piece on the coming flotation of moneysupermarket.com
Mercedes Benz has launched (July, 12th) a new IPTV service http://www.mercedes-benz.tv/ (English & German)
Two companies based around generic domain names are for sale for $2bn & $1.4bn. Though the sale of the smaller has been pulled/delayed as interest was around $1.2bn - $1.3bn rather than the $1.4bn price sought.
“The insurance company Admiral has cast a shadow over the forthcoming flotation of Moneysupermarket.com by announcing it had decided not to sell Confused.com, its rival price-comparison service. Admiral said yesterday that despite attracting interest from a number of private equity bidders, no one had offered it a sufficiently attractive price for the minority stake it was prepared to sell.
The Independent website has more here
The BBC is reporting Google has purchased Postini for $625m. “The search engine giant said the deal would allow it to provide more companies with web-based services similar to its Google Apps package.
“Postini sells encryption and archiving software to more than 35,000 businesses and 10m users across the globe.
China is set to become the nation with the most Broadband connections by 2008.
”China added 4.5 million high-speed connections in the first three months of 2007 to 56.3 million, says research firm point 15pic. The U.S. ended the first quarter with 60.4 million.
“China still lags the U.S. and many other countries in broadband “penetration.” Just 4.3% of its 1.3 billion people and 14.3% of households have speedy Internet connections, says point 15pic.
“In America, 52.7% of households have broadband, less than most other rich nations and well below South Korea’s 90% penetration. via CNNMoney.com
