Cybele NegrisWebnames.ca is proud to promote the BCTIA Technology Impact Awards taking place June 8, 2010 at the Vancouver Convention Centre. Over 700 senior representatives of the technology and business community will attend this event to recognize the best of BC’s technology community. The Technology Impact Awards is an annual program created to celebrate the successes of BC’s…
Cybele NegrisNow that Canada has shown the world what we are capable of and we have all experienced the Olympics together and feeling that overwhelming sense of Canadian pride, here’s a contest for you to showcase your “online Canadian-ness.” No, you won’t win gold but the prizes are pretty good: 1. Grand prize wins a MacBook…
John DemcoCIRA Asks Canadians To Showusyour.ca – The Canadian Internet Registration Authority (CIRA) has announced a contest asking Canadians to send in videos to show off their .ca websites. Videos must be submitted by March 15, and public voting on videos begins March 19. .UK Registry Members Vote For Governance Changes – Members of the .uk…
JuliannaVerisign – the registry provider for .COM and .NET – has released its final Domain Industry Brief for 2009. The VeriSign quarterly reports provide a review of the state of the domain name industry, including up-to-date trends in new registrations, renewals, and growth opportunities, through a variety of statistical and analytical research. Summary of Key Trends…
JuliannaBelow are my “top picks” from this week’s CIRA’s to-be-released domains list. This week’s list is another big one. Our “top picks” list is published within two days of when CIRA releases its list of to-be-released domains. More domains will be added to the TBR each day until the date of release. Remember to check the…
Cybele NegrisAs a part of our core values we are constantly trying to improve and strive for excellence. So when I heard about the new employee training program established by the Ministry of Advanced Education and Labour Market Development, I applied right away. Essentially, the Workplace Training for Innovation Pilot Program is designed to help BC…
John DemcoReview Panel Finds Against ICANN Board In .XXX Decision – An Independent Review Panel (IRP) has concluded that in rejecting ICM Registry’s 2004 application for a .XXX top-level domain, the ICANN Board’s decision “was not consistent with the application of neutral, objective and fair documented policy.” The Panel also concluded that its rulings are not…
Webnames.ca StaffI read an interesting article on the recent ICANN report about how most WhoIs records contain bad data. TheRegister.co.uk article “77% of domain registrations stuffed with rubbish” published on February 17, 2010 by Kieran McCarthy, got me thinking. Most domain registrars offer Domain Privacy services (we do) that mask your data in WhoIs records. If…
JuliannaTelnic, the organization behind the award-winning .tel domain, today announced that Google AdSense will be supported in .tel names by the end of March 2010. Google AdSense is a free program that enables website publishers of all sizes to display relevant Google ads and earn additional revenue. Because .tel names store information directly in the…
Cybele NegrisI don’t know of a single blogger who doesn’t want to improve their search engine optimization and page rank. The truth is that there is always something you can do! Here are 10 tips for boosting SEO – and all of them are straight forward things you can implement yourself. Start with writing great content that is…
John DemcoAfilias Acquires .MOBI Domain Registry – Afilias has acquired mTLD Top-Level Domain Ltd., the operator of the .mobi domain registry, in a private deal. Afilias is the registry operator for .info, and had already been providing registry services to mTLD. There are more than 950,000 .mobi domains registered worldwide. ICANN Publishes Salary Information – In…
Cybele NegrisI’m asked to speak to small businesses frequently at a variety of technology or entrepreneurship events. A frequently overlooked, but important thing I always mention is to have an effective email strategy. People are typically surprised when they hear this. After all, how strategic is sending and receiving communication? Below are some do’s and don’t’s when setting…
JuliannaWebnames.ca has collaborated with Telnic, the organization behind the award-winning .TEL name, to create the first-ever domain retail card so that .TEL names can be sold by brick and mortar retailers across North America. The new retail card lets customers purchase .TEL names, which act as a ‘live’ digital business card, from stores and shops.…
JuliannaBelow are my “top picks” from this week’s CIRA’s to-be-released domains list. This list is published the first day CIRA releases its new batch of TBR domains, that means more domains will be added to the TBR each day until the date of release. Remember to check the CIRA TBR list again for new selections.…
John DemcoICANN Begins DNSSEC Deployment In The Root Zone – ICANN has announced that DNSSEC deployment in the root zone has begun as of January 27. DNSSEC information is now being served by L-Root, one of the 13 root servers. DNSSEC deployment in the root zone is proposed to be completed by July. (DNSSEC, or Domain…
