Posted by Caycee Boyce , Wednesday, 11 June 2008

At its meeting on May 29, 2008 the Board agreed to the release of a paper on the reform of ICANN meetings that has been prepared by staff.

The paper asks the community to consider changes to the number of meetings that ICANN holds and the location.

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Posted by Vince Milder , Tuesday, 10 June 2008

Posted by David Goldstein , Tuesday, 10 June 2008

Connectingnyc is preparing to make an application for the .NYC gTLD, and the proposal has made the New York Times this week.

The report notes Connectingnyc was handing out fliers to New York City workers to solicit ideas and gain publicity.

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Posted by David Goldstein , Tuesday, 10 June 2008

With 973,894 domain names registered at the beginning of June, .ES is the latest ccTLD to be approaching the magical one million mark. Already in the first five months of 2008 registrations have increased 20 per cent.

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Posted by Chief Editor , Tuesday, 10 June 2008

SEATTLE, WA - June 9, 2008 - Marchex, Inc. (NASDAQ: MCHX, MCHXP), a local search and advertising company, today launched Marchex Adhere™, a new pay-per-click advertising channel that provides advertisers and agencies with exclusive placement on hundreds of premium publisher Web sites and on Marchex's OpenList® network. Marchex is also adding several new premium publishers and locally focused Web sites to Marchex Adhere, further expanding the breadth and depth of the network and enhancing Marchex's leadership position in local search and advertising...

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Posted by Chief Editor , Tuesday, 10 June 2008

Sedo.com has reported the following sales data to DomainNews.com for the week of June 2nd:

.Com Sales

ov.com    200,000 USD
drumset.com   27,050 USD
zircle.com   20,000 USD

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Posted by Chief Editor , Tuesday, 10 June 2008

As most of you know, opportunities are steadily diminishing for domain investors and speculators in the .com market. All the 'low-hanging fruit' has been picked and the .com aftermarket which now commands some pretty hefty prices. Therefore, many domainers are turning towards the ccTLD market to expand their riches. One of the most thought after domain markets is the British .co.uk market.

It is not surprising that a new player, Hubbard Media (a UK based company) now offers new opportunies in the British .co.uk domain investment market, specifically in UK based domain backordering, drop lists. Hubbard Media is a tech consultancy firm in the UK with expert knowledge of how the .uk ccTLD domain space operates...

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Posted by Chief Editor , Tuesday, 10 June 2008

David Chelly, editor of Domaine1.fr wrote an article he wants to share with the readers of DomainNews. He discusses reasons why it is worth investing in French domain names and we think it is a very good article and hope you will enjoy it... 


Reason # 1: A huge reservoir of endusers

French is the mother language of about 200 million people in the world and it is used by over 500 million people in dozens of countries...

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Posted by Chief Editor , Tuesday, 10 June 2008

The June Cover Story has just been posted at DNJournal and I think it is one of our most amazing personal profiles published to date. As you know, domains have made a number of people wealthy beyond their wildest dreams. People like Kevin Ham and Frank Schilling have built companies that earn not just millions of dollars a year, but tens of millions annually...

 

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Posted by Chief Editor , Tuesday, 10 June 2008

We’ve already covered the “build verse park” topic in previous issues, and will happily again as there’s a constant paradigm shift revolving around that question.  Lets, however, assume that you do decide to build out a domain. How much does THAT cost?  It must be prohibitive – right?  Wrong.  Here’s a couple of thrifty ways to build sites that have rich utility and social networking functions: www. copenda.com/, www.ning.com, www.VBulletin.com, www.Joomla.com.

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