JuliannaLate last month the dotMobi Advisory Group (MAG) and the Canadian Wireless Telecommunications Association (CWTA) signed an Industry Alliance Memorandum – a fancy term for agreement – to support one another’s initiatives. Why is this significant? By signing, the CWTA – Canada’s authority on wireless issues, trends and developments – has agreed to promote the…
John DemcoResults From The ICANN San Juan Meetings – ICANN meetings took place last week in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Here are some results: approval of the fiscal year 2008 budget, several discussions on new generic top-level domain names and on internationalized domain names, a public forum on accountability and transparency, a tutorial on domain tasting,…
Nick CaristinosI am often asked about the Webnames.ca tagline “Securing Internet Identities”. What seems to be a nondescript statement really means we work to help you protect your brands on the Internet. There are numerous ways your brand can be used to your detriment on the Internet, making it vital for you to have a strategy…
JuliannaThe Internet is a buzz with talk of last week’s T.R.A.F.F.I.C. conference and the potential value of the domain business.com. According to the Wall Street Journal (subscribers only), business.com is now up for sale – for $400 million dollars! If this sale goes through for even considerably less than its asking price it will become…
JuliannaNew York City was host to the most recent T.R.A.F.F.I.C. conference with hundreds of domain investors, service providers and industry professionals in attendance. For those who haven’t heard of T.R.A.F.F.I.C., the conference is devoted to exploring trends in the domain name industry, specifically domain monetization, investment and traffic acquisition. In addition to exhibits, seminars and…
John DemcoICANN Meetings This Week in San Juan – ICANN meetings are taking place in San Juan, Puerto Rico until Friday, June 29. The meeting website includes agendas, times, speakers and copies of presentations, and issues to be considered include new gTLDs, registrant protection, GNSO improvements, and IDNs. In the days just prior to the meetings,…
John DemcoUtube Lawsuit Stays Alive But Some Claims Dismissed – In the lawsuit by Universal Tube & Rollform Equipment (utube.com) against YouTube, Inc. (youtube.com), the court has dismissed several of the claims including trademark infringement and trespass to chattels. The court found that the trespass claim required physical contact but that it is not possible to…
JuliannaA group of Vancouver-based domainers have been receiving a lot of media attention lately. For those of you not familiar with the term, ‘domainers’ are domain name investors in the business of buying, selling, and monetizing traffic on parked domain names. And according to Nathan Vanderklippe’s article in last weekend’s Financial Post, “over the past…
JuliannaAs you know we are currently celebrating the 20th anniversary of the .CA – when the management of the .CA country code domain name was officially allocated to Webnames.ca founder and Canadian Internet Pioneer John Demco. The May 14, 2007 anniversary was an important day for Canada and an important story for the Canadian…
Worldwide Domain Registrations Reach 128 Million – VeriSign’s quarterly Domain Name Industry Brief reports that the total number of domain registrations worldwide has reached 128 million, a 31% increase during the previous year. The number of .com/.net domain names grew to 69 million, a 28% increase year over year and 6% quarter over quarter. CcTLD…
Once in a while we receive an email from a customer asking the following questions: “I’ve been approached to sell one of my domain names. How do I determine what it is worth? Are there any valuation services I can use? What should my asking price be?” While today’s domain name market is less frenzied…
Nick CaristinosWhy Transfer? At Webnames.ca we regularly deal with customers transferring their domain names over to us from other registrars. There are many good reasons to transfer your domain name from one registrar to another. One of the best is to consolidate all your domain names, which will allow you to manage your entire domain portfolio…
John DemcoRegisterFly Domains Being Transferred to GoDaddy – Registrar GoDaddy.com has reached an agreement with RegisterFly, which had had its registrar accreditation terminated by ICANN, to transfer RegisterFly’s portfolio of domain names to GoDaddy.com. ICANN has welcomed the announcement. .TRAVEL Registry Gets Reprieve – SEC documents indicate that Michael Egan, president of Theglobe.com, has lent $250,000…
Nick CaristinosHello Readers, Nick here from Webnames.ca’s Corporate and Managed Services department. Earlier this month I read an article discussing ICANN’s plan to come out with a new, generic domain name extension for 2008. ICANN President and CEO, Dr. Paul Twomey stated in a recent announcement, “This is all about choice. We want the diversity of…
John DemcoICANN Reports RegisterFly Deal To Transfer Domains – ICANN reports that it “has been advised of a deal to transfer all names in RegisterFly’s management from RegisterFly to an existing accredited Registrar with a demonstrated record of customer service. This would be a quick and effective solution to many of the problems that registrants are…
