Anyone interested in a background to the main issues being discussed at this week’s ICANN meeting in Paris, and for most these issues are the introduction of new top level domains and internationalised domain names, and you want a bit of a background, check out this BusinessWeek article.
 ICANN will confirm tomorrow (Thursday) Paris time the meeting from March 1-5, 2009, to be held in the Latin America region will be held in Mexico. The choices from talk at the ICANN meeting underway in Paris is the options are Cancun and Mexico City, with the latter to be a slight favourite. However we will have to wait for the ICANN meeting to see which way the board votes.
 The National Arbitration Forum issued decisions on the rights to YouTube.net, CTV.com, and AmericanGirl.net. Conflicts over domain names are on the rise. The dispute resolution provider handled 1,658 domain disputes in 2006, a 21 percent increase from the prior year, and 1,805 disputes in 2007.The following decisions were made in accordance with the Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP) of the ICANN by independent and neutral arbitrators on the National Arbitration Forum Panel.
The new weekly domain sales report is out at DNJournal. This was a huge week for country code domains, with a six-figure .de (German ccTLD) among 11 ccTLDs that made the all-extension leader board. Six ccTLDs claimed spots among the top ten sales. Sedo.com has always dominated the country code category and the ccTLD breakout helped them pile up a dozen chart entries, more than any other venue...
Domainer meeting in Paris has finished and ICANN is in full swing but I find myself on the TGV fast train to Luxembourg. The day started with a group of domainers including Jay & Susan from Domain Intelligence (ie. TrafficZ), Dan from Fabulous, Roland from Domain News plus a few others getting together to head off to Versailles.
Versailles was an incredible statement to the height of opulence and extravagance from the bygone Kingly eras of France. There's nothing like priceless works of art, incredible furniture and gold to get your attention.
A great read on NamePros shed some light on the current domain market.
NamePros Member Burano writes: "So, has it always been like this on this forum? I see pages and pages of posts of people trying to sell lists of domains with no responses except themselves.
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ICANN's Paris meeting is soon to draw to a close Thursday night
Paris time, but before it does so, the board is to meet in an open
meeting to discuss, and most likely to approve, the introduction of new
top level domains and internationalised domain names.
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