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…
From LinkedIn to Flickr to mySpace to Facebook (and these are just some of the most widely used sites) it seems like everyone’s joining social networks. Whether you focus on one, or you sign up for them all, they can be a valuable tool for meeting people and making connections on the Internet. Up until…
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,…
Cybele NegrisOn June 18, 2007, I attended the Forum for Women Entrepreneurs 2007 E-Series Program Graduation. Premier Gordon Campbell, Rick Thorpe (Minister of Small Business & Revenue) and the Who’s Who of the local business community were in attendance to support and congratulate 13 women entrepreneurs who completed months of extensive training. Congratulations to the 2007…
JuliannaWhile reading One Degree’s recap of the recent Search Engine Strategies Conference in Toronto one thing really struck me – “78% of Canadians will turn to search engines to research a product or service.” This means nearly 80% of Canadians are doing their consumer research online. This is good news for Canadian businesses, confirming the…
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…
JuliannaEven if you don’t know what a wiki is, it’s likely you have come across one recently – Wikipedia – the biggest multilingual free-content encyclopedia on the Internet, with over 7 million articles in over 200 languages (and still growing). The reason I say you’ve likely come across it is because Wikipedia has great search…
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…
JuliannaFor a small business getting media coverage may seem like a daunting task. While you may never have a huge PR team like Microsoft, working with a public relations consultant can create a positive face for your company, and generate new business while you’re at it. If you haven’t worked with a PR person before,…
