I had the privilege to speak at the CENTR General Assembly in Pisa, to discuss the marketplace and how new TLDs can be assimilated into the marketplace via the registrar channel. https://www.centr.org/main/lib/g1/4622-CTR.html It may prove to be like taking a small sip from a fireplug with the number...

DotME, the collaboration between Afilias, GoDaddy, and DoMen seems to have launched with some success, and I am the proud registrant of jothan.me.  Congratulations to all those that registered and participated.

The former Yugoslovia ccTLD has been designated for a 3 year sunset process, transitioning to .RS (Serbia) and .ME (Montenegro).   Following in the footsteps of the ccTLDs that have some generic appeal beyond simply that of the country (.TV, .MD, .FM/.AM, .CD, etc), there was some competition for...

Just saw a post about blacknight.ie offering .EU domain names at 5 euros per.  Unless I am mistaken, that is at cost.  This is noteworthy, as we certainly watch pricing trategy like this suceed in the US, so it will be good to see how such a pricing model will drive organic growth and adoption of...

 auDA is releasing a list of reserved geographical names on October 21st. According to the 2005 ballot, the names registered in the first 5 days will cost $825 (AU$ inc. GST) plus registrar’s registration fee.  After the 5 day period, names will be charged $21.45 (AU$ inc. GST) plus the registrar’s...

Please welcome North Korea (aka Korea, Democratic People’s Republic) (.KP), Montenegro (.ME), and Serbia (.RS) to the root zone. Delegation was approved at the recent Special ICANN Board of Director meeting on September 11. My compliments to Kim Davies and David Conrad at IANA on a smooth process...

Just in from around the net, Afilias and GoDaddy have arranged a joint venture called Alliance Registry and have announced their plans to bid for the .US ccTLD that is currently run by NeuStar. Well recognized and respected industry name Brian Cute was named as the director of usTLD Development, yet...