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Oversee.net (Snapnames.com) have John Battelle, Peter Hillary and Frank Schilling all headlining at their DomainFest 2008 confrence January 21-23 2008 in Hollywood California.

Press release here

Nominet the non profit organization which runs the .uk registry has been awarded the contract to run the new Enum registry. Enum domains will map telepone numbers to web addresses.

The Register has more details here.
Nominet press release here.

McAfee have conducted an indepth analysis into the ownership of domains around famous brands.  

Country  & Percentage of Domains used for typo-squating based on their methodologies

1  UK                               7.7%
    Overall Average          7.2%
2  Portugal                      6.5%          
3  Spain                           5.9%
4  France                         5.4%
5  Italy                            4.1%
6  Germany                     3.8%
7  Australia                      2.0%
8  Sweden                       1.8% 
8  Middle East                  1.8% 
8  Poland                         1.8%
11 Netherlands                1.6% 
12 Israel                          1.1%
13 Denmark                     1.0%
14 Brazil                           0.9%
15 Finland                        0.1%

Complete results of survey here

Neustar’s .us contract has just been renewed by the Department of Commerce

fbo.gov notice

ICANN has just launched a forum to discuss the methods for allocating single letter and single digit domain names for all 16 gTLDs (AERO, .ASIA, .BIZ, .CAT, .COM, .COOP, .INFO, .JOBS, .MOBI, .MUSEUM, .NAME, .NET, .ORG, .PRO, .TEL, and .TRAVEL)

a.com b.info 4.biz etc. 

Some of the .com’s are already owned z.com by Nissan x.com by Ebay/ Paypal but these predate 1993 when the current reserved names policy was imposed.

ICANN Announcement
ICANN Discussion Forum 

ICANN has just launched a trial for integrating IDNs into the root. The ICANN blog has an interesting post by Kim Davis, giving nice examples on why viewing IDNs around the world can sometimes be problematic for some and not for others and why these current tests are so important for software developers.

The number of .info domain registrations has just passed 5,000,000. Just under 8 months ago we reported the 4,000,000 registrations which was confirmed in an Afilias press-release in March.

The Afilias press release also included a note about NewYork.info being the largest .info sale at the time $46,000.  NewYork.info was subsequently resold again in July for $70,000 but is no longer the highest .info sale,  travel.info is now the most expensive publically recorded sale selling for $117,000 

Sample addresses in 11 lanageuages:

Arabic, Persian, simplified Chinese, traditional Chinese, Russian, Hindi, Greek, Korean, Yiddish, Japanese and Tamil

will be added to the Internet’s central directories as early as next week, paving the way for Web surfers around the world to get online without knowing any English.

At this point, the 11 domain names are meant primarily for software developers and Web site designers to test the new system, but they are the first such names entered in the 13 key domain name directories (root servers).

If the trial is successful live IDNs should be available late 2008.

Full ICANN press release here

Dotmibiz.com has posted the results from the Sedo auction earlier today.

Sales over $10,000

Hosting.mobi  $101,000 
Bank.mobi  $51,501 
Download.mobi  $51,500 
Currency.mobi  $47,000 
Insurance.mobi  $42,005 
Chat.mobi  $42,000 
Traffic.mobi  $36,008 
Books.mobi  $33,510 
Free.mobi  $31,500 
Loans.mobi  $ 30,000 
Marketing.mobi  $26,100 
Creditcard.mobi  $25,500 
Rent.mobi  $21,000 
Creditcards.mobi  $20,500 
Voip.mobi  $ 20,500 
Webcam.mobi  $16,000 
DomainName.mobi  $15,000 
DomainNames.mobi  $12,600 
Advertising.mobi  $12,100 
Downloads.mobi  $11,185 
Credit.mobi  $10,600 
Atm.mobi  $10,100 
Payment.mobi  $10,100 

Full auction  list here     All sales here