Cybele NegrisOn June 8, 2010, over 800 people from BC’s technology and business community came together at the Vancouver Convention Centre West to recognize BC’s best in the technology industry. Webnames.ca as long time supporter of the BC Technology Industry Association – Technology Impact Awards and we would like to offer our sincere congratulations to all…
John Demco.CA Registry Approves 2010-2011 Corporate Plan – The Canadian Internet Registration Authority (CIRA) has posted its 2010-2011 Corporate Plan as approved by the CIRA Board on June 1. Among the major activities planned for the coming year are: rewriting the registry management system, hosting a Canadian Internet Governance Forum, and undertaking a Community Investment Program…
JuliannaIt is less than one week until the Targeted TRAFFIC Vancouver conference and the full schedule is now available online. The three day conference kicks off Tuesday, June 8th with opening remarks from Rick Latona at 11:00 am, then it’s straight into panels, networking and breakout sessions. Webnames.ca CEO Stephen Smith and Director John Demco…
John DemcoHere is a selection of recent domain-related items: Neustar, the .us domain registry operator, is proposing to make one- and two-character .us domain names available. It also proposes to launch a .us URL shortener service, and to expand the marketing of .kids.us. New proposals for a Bulgarian TLD name in Cyrillic are being discussed. The…
Cybele NegrisCongratulations to all New Venture BC competitors advancing to the next round of the competition. This year, Round 3 is different for NVBC. The top 16 companies are automatically advancing to Round 3 of the competition. The next 27 companies move on to Round 2.5 and will be assigned a temporary mentor to help hone…
Cybele NegrisTHIS YEARS EVENT: Join Small Business BC for an amazing ‘OSCARS inspired’ evening of awards and networking, as the four winners are announced for this year’s 2010 Successful You – Small Business Awards, June 10th, 2010 @ The Birks Jewellery Store (5-8pm), Vancouver. YOUR TICKET INCLUDES: – Delicious wines, appetizers and samples– Mingle with the…
Webnames.ca StaffSince the release of .Tel last year, many people have asked “what can I do with my .Tel name”? There are many great ways you can use it, but here’s a new development that got me excited. Telnic recently released a string of code to easily integrate .Tel on your website using iFrames. An iFrame…
John DemcoNameserver Misconfigurations Cause .DE Domain Disruption – On May 12, several nameservers for Germany’s .de domain were updated with a zone file containing just one third of the actual .de domain data, resulting in incorrect “domain does not exist” responses. The problem started at about 13:30 CEST and was resolved at about 15:45. DENIC, the…
Cybele NegrisAre you an experienced professional with Board of Directors experience? Do you want to have a positive impact on the .CA domain? CIRA is seeking interested candidates from across Canada to fill four open Board of Directors positions. Applications will be accepted between May 13 and June 11. Who should apply? Professional Canadians with Board…
Webnames.ca StaffThe 6th annual Northern voice personal blogging and social media conference took place this past Friday and Saturday at the University of British Columbia. I attended once again; although I was unable to go on Friday, Saturday’s experience was no less awesome. The conference got a LOT bigger this year, and as such the organizers…
JuliannaThe latest batch of TBR domains has been released. Below are my “top picks” scheduled for release on May 19th. There are tonnes of great names this week, so prebook early. We do our best to publish a weekly “top picks” listfter CIRA publishes its latest batch of expiring dot-CA domains (aka to-be-released or TBR…
JuliannaDo you love domain names? Do you have a portfolio of domains and want to learn more about domain opportunities including how to develop, monetize and resell your names? If you answered yes, you should not miss Targeted T.R.A.F.F.I.C. in Vancouver! [Breaking News: ticket price drop – more information below!] The T.R.A.F.F.I.C. conferences are some…
JuliannaWe recently came across an article on CanuckSEO.com that measures the effectiveness of .CA versus .COM for Canadian businesses and they kindly allowed us to republish it on Webnames.ca Blog. While it is no secret we are big proponents of .CA – Webnames.ca co-founder John Demco actually conceived of .CA in 1987 to identify Canadian…
John DemcoFirst IDN ccTLDs Active – In an important step in the development of the Internet, the first non-Latin IDN ccTLDs were added to the root zone of the DNS on May 5. The three new ccTLDs are for: Egypt: مصر (Egypt), Saudi Arabia: السعودية (AlSaudiah), and United Arab Emirates: امارات (Emarat). Under a process approved…
Webnames.ca StaffThe first time I saw a QR Code was about a year ago on a photo of a realtor’s lawn sign that was posted on Flickr. I thought it was interesting but didn’t understand what a QR Code was or could do. It’s amazing what a year can do for the popularity of a piece…
