DotEU…. At Cost???!?!?

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...

.COM.AU, .NET.AU Geographical Names being released

 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...

Single character domain allocation process

ICANN is establishing a forum on allocation methods for single character ([A-Z0-9]) second level registrations in the gTLDs. There are 16 gTLDs that have single character registrations restricted, of which .COM, .NET, and .ORG have only six registrations within that...

Three new TLDs in the Root: .KP, .ME, .RS

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...

New TLDs – What’s Your Idea?

What are your ideas for new top level domains? Because of my tenure in the namespace market, I have the privilege of being a person that folks trust for open feedback on their TLD applications for the upcoming rounds next year. I've heard or seen over 50 different...

ROM Workout machine arrived…

OK, I ordered one, and my ROM machine is here.  I am going to start working out daily and track my weight and shape here. Thanks to friends with comments. I will say this: The process of ordering the ROM and their handling of shipping was one of the most white glove...

Hosting Companies : You totally get it!

I just had the opportunity to speak and moderate a panel at HostingCon in Chicago on the domain name industry and the secondary market for domain names. There was a packed room, and with me were Sean Stafford of DNZoom, Frank Mitchlick of DomainNameNews.com and...