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Archive for June, 2008
The End of Domain Tasting
Jun 29th
In all this hype and hoopla of new gTLDs being proposed by ICANN one major issue was completely overshadowed – that of domain tasting. ICANN has addressed it in this meeting and measures recommended to prevent it from taking place.
Domain tasting is the practice of registering domain names and ‘tasting’ the traffic before registering or dropping them. This is mostly done by the bigger players in the industry like registrars and drop services though some registrars do allow registrants to take benefit from this policy.
It is estimated that at any given time 20 million domains are being tasted by various More >
Forget Domains, buy a TLD!
Jun 25th
ICANN’s Paris conference has thrown up some interesting ideas and questions, chief among them has been the possibility of introducing thousands of new TLDs on a pay and play basis. This BBC News Story has the crux of the issue.
What they’re essentially saying is that anyone willing to fork out between $39,000 – $390,000 for a TLD could possibly buy their own! What this means is that if I had the money and the inclination – I could buy and promote .mwzd (not really, merely an example ) and Coke could get .coke and Ebay could get .ebay, ad nauseam.
My first More >
Domainer Income interview of Adam Dicker
Jun 19th
This is pretty interesting – Domainer Income interview of Adam Dicker
He actually likes .me!! And he talks about NamePros and DomainState.
Go ahead, listen to it!!
