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“Marchex is launching websites for thousands of cities, big and small. The play? To beat Microsoft, Google, and Yahoo to the punch in connecting businesses to nearby customers.
Verisgn has just released it’s latest (Q2/07) Domain Name Industry Brief
Whilst it provides a good overview it is interesting to do a little math.
From the Verisign report Total Domains = 138 million, Total ccTLDs = 51.5 million which gives 86.5 million gTLD domains.
All well and good but where are those 86.5 million gTLD domains registered?
56.5m United States
4.8m Germany
3.2m United Kingdom
3.0m Bahrain
2.8m Canada
2.6m China
1.9m France
1.7m Hongkong
1.6m Australia
1.1m Japan
1.0m Spain
0.9m Korea
0.8m Italy
0.7m The Netherlands
0.6m Turkey
0.5m New Zealand
0.4m India
0.4m Cayman Islands
0.4m Russia
0.3m Denmark
NeuStar, Inc. has announced it has deployed internationalized domain names (IDNs) for the Korean language in the .BIZ top-level Internet domain as of August 19, 2007.
.BIZ IDNs in are now available in Korean, Chinese, Danish, German, Icelandic, Japanese, Norwegian, Spanish, and Swedish.
“Audible.com was founded an eternity ago, in 1995, and is one of a handful of internet dotcoms to go public during the first bubble, and yet survive. “I started the business too early,” he jokes now.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/08/17/audible_ceo_interview/
The New York Times has an article looking into the marketing campaign for TIAA-CREF.
“A LARGE marketer of financial services is seeking to become the master of a domain name.
“TIAA-CREF’s “Manifesto” Ad The marketer is TIAA-CREF, which is making a significant change in its advertising that plays up its status as a nonprofit organization. The campaign, getting under way this week, signals its intent by focusing on a new Web site, powerof.org.
The auction allowed people at the venue and anyone online to bid real time while also providing high quality and stable video and sound feeds of the auction room. The staff did an excellent job of keeping up with the auctioneer and the bids from bidders both online and in the room.
This meant all the information needed to bid was displayed on a single web page anywhere in the world making it almost as good as being in the auction room and without the cost of getting there.
Other improvements on other auctions included no fee for absentee bidding and the first bid met the reserve, which moved the auction along much quicker and removed the worries of people bidding to just below the reserve to promote their names.
ICANN has opened a public comment period 10th – 30th August on the recent GNSO report in to the Introduction of New Generic Top-Level Domains – Part A
& the Introduction of New Generic Top-Level Domains – Part B
Credicards.com has just filed with the SEC to raise upto $115 million with underwriters Credit Suisse, Citigroup, and Thomas Weisel Partners
24/7 Wall St has more details.
From the Press release
“Washington, DC, Tuesday, July 31 – GoDaddy.com, Inc. and Afilias USA, Inc., have teamed up to create The Domain Name Alliance Registry, LLC (“Alliance Registry”), a joint venture seeking to assume stewardship of the usTLD, America’s sovereign space on the Internet. Yesterday, Alliance Registry submitted a proposal in response to the request for quotations issued by the U.S. Department of Commerce’s National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) for a registry operator for the usTLD.
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/
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