The past week of ICANN meetings has been very productive from an Asia Pacific point of view. The most significant achievements for APRALO was the amendment of the By Laws allowing greater decision making and the election of a new leadership team. Myself elected as Chairperson for 2 years, Les Allison of PICISOC in Fiji…

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At the end of 2008, there were 177 million registered TLD domain names. Of the 240 cc TLDs there were 71.1 million registrations with 65% of them from only 10 ccTLDs according to Verisign. Of the top ten ccTLDs .cn, .de, .uk, .nl, .eu, .ar, .it, .ar, .br, .us and .au only 3 of the…

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Another example of why i am not certain the domain names will be in such heavy demand in the future. According to this article, in Japan advertisers do not advertise thier domain name just the words to search the Internet for. It certainly contradicts the online marketing and branding strategies that we use in the…

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During the recent Denial of Service (DoS) attack on a large international registrar effecting over 7.5 million web sites in 48 hours, i have learnt of an effective Internet vulnerability. I am only writing about it as once you read it, it is common knowledge and is only dangerous if you were inclined to try…

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We have almost become conditioned to the fact that we need to protect our domain name and that if we have an organisation of any description we need to secure a domain name for our online identity. Often conglomerates will register their identity across many TLD’s. ICANN will soon make it possible to create new…

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I have often wondered over the years how long the traditional paper based phone book will be in existence and how useful it is in today’s society when we are all connected to the Internet and have instant access to online phone books from all around the world as well as web sites that contain…

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There is a lot of negative discussions about ICANN’s proposed new gTLD application process. Many are saying the process is too slow, too expensive, ICANN want to know too much about my finances, who is ICANN to judge if my business plan is sustainable etc. Without writing a commentary as long as the guidelines are…

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With ICANN approving the IDN TLD for Russia, i hope this will start a “fast” flow of other TLD and GTLD’s being introduced in quick sucession. My understanding is that Russia will implement .РФ in June  2009. Then i am assuming they will offer all of thier 2LD’s in Cyrillic Russia already have 2 other TLDs .ru…

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According to this article Slingshot let a business critical domain name expire causing phone issues for their iTalk service.   How on earth did a large and respectful company such as SlingShot miss a renewal on a domain name which resulted in critical business services being lost?.  A former staff member registered the domain name using his…

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