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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
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
Sedo is holding an auction of seasonal .uk domins in the Sedo UK Christmas Auction which runs from November 2oth to 27th. Names include:
Christmas.co.uk
christmasdecorations.co.uk
christmashampers.co.uk
christmaseve.co.uk
christmasgifts.co.uk
christmascrackers.co.uk
newyearseve.co.uk
christmasbreaks.co.uk
christmasday.co.uk
smokingsanta.co.uk
smokingsantas.co.uk
Stuffing.co.uk
officeparties.co.uk
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 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
