Domains, Internet & Gadgets
Sedo has just announced a premium .tv domain name auction
115 premium names including…
beach.tv
black.tv
british.tv
business.tv
Auction starts April, 01 through April, 08.
Full domain name auction list
Press release
One note of caution many premium .tv’s have very high renewal rates – The press release states “For the first time ever, Verisign and Sedo are auctioning 115 premium .tv domains with greatly reduced renewal rates.”
ICANN has started to create a series recordings for an ICANN Podcast. The Podcast called “ICANN Start” is designed to help people not familiar with diverse matters of Internet governance get quickly up to speed on specific issues. The podcast launched publicly last week, with four episodes.
03: What is the ccCNSO (Country Code Names Supporting Organization)?
02: Inter-Registrar Transfer Policy
01: Redirection and Wildcarding
Hosterstats has just posted an interesting domain analysis of the relationship and frequency of the same domain name being registered/unregistered for the .com .net .org .biz .info .mobi .asia .tel gTLDs.
The .info namespace is particularly interesting because over 25% of the names registered are unique to .info (i.e. not registered in any of the other gTLDs.
The .dot tel news letter .telegraph has details of the new look for .tel pages to be rolled out in March 2010
In March 1985, the first .com domain was registered, igniting the birth of the consumer Internet that, 25 years later, continues to transform communications, commerce and our society as a whole
Beginning in March 2010, VeriSign, the long-time operator of the .com domain, will lead an industry-wide initiative to recognize the innovators and leaders that have shaped the first 25 years of .com and in doing so transformed our economy and society.
Today, the fastest throughput on most of the global network is 10,000,000,000 bits (10 gigabits) per second – so sending the contents of a full DVD takes around 4 seconds.
The New Scientist is reporting Verizon has installed a 900 kilometre 100,000,000,000 bits (10 gigabits) fibre-optic link between Paris in France and Frankfurt in Germany.
YouTube are to start offering movie rentals on a trial basis.
For the initial trial Five full-length features drawn from 2010 and 2009 Sundance Film Festivals will be made available available. The rentals, which will cost $3.99 each, will be available until the end of the month and can be kept for up to 48 hours.
ZdNet has more
Afilias has just released its .info Annual Report for 2009.
With over 5 million .info domains registered .info is the 7th largest TLD in the world. Over 70% of .info domains resolve to real content and more than 1 million unique Web sites are based in the .info extension will millions more resolving to useful content.
.info domains now account for 40% of all domains registered in new TLDs. This chart from the report shows the relaltve size of new TLDs.
Our chart here compares the number of new gTLD pages indexed by Google which gives an indication of usage rather than just simple registration numbers of the first chart from the report.
VeriSign has announced that as of July 1, 2010, the registry fee for .com domain names will increase from $6.86 to $7.34 and that the registry fee for .net domain names will increase, from $4.23 to $4.65
In a big step forward for the mobile Internet, Google Labs is offering a new way of searching. Simply take a picture of what your searching for – no need to type your search anymore.
Google Labs has examples
GPM Group 