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Watch ICANN-GAC Meeting Live

admin — Sun, 27 Feb 2011 19:45:25 +0000

Watch the ICANN-GAC Meeting live over the internet (Brussels time)

Date: Monday 28 February 2011 and Tuesday 1 March 2011. Start and finish times for each day are likely to be between 8.30am and 5.30pm. Note that this is Brussels, Belgium local time, which is 6 hours ahead of Boston.

The outcome of this meeting may well impact the roll-out and timing of new gTLDs, including .XXX.

Here are the details for those who wish to watch remotely:

Through adobe connect you will be able to listen to the meeting, in addition to viewing presentations and live scribing. There will not be any interpreters for this meeting – neither the GAC or the Board have used interpreters for any of their previous meetings and it was not a request for this consultation.

Adobe Connect: http://icann.adobeconnect.com/gacboard/

MP3 stream: http://stream.icann.org:8000/gacboard

Scribe Text: www.streamtext.net/text.aspx?event=scribe

.Jobs Poised to Offer New Listing Service for Employers

admin — Mon, 13 Dec 2010 02:10:01 +0000

Employers will have soon have a new option for advertising their jobs listings, provided they have a dot-Jobs domain name. A proposal by the dot-Jobs registry to distribute job listings to a network of portals was approved by ICANN back in August but was being challenged by job board operators, such as Monster.com and CareerBuilder.com. The ICANN Reconsideration Committee last week decided in favor of the dot-Jobs Registry.

To take advantage of this service, employers must first register a dot-Jobs domain, such as companyname.jobs. Secure your companyname.jobs domain here.

For the full decision and rationale from ICANN, you can visit: http://icann.org/en/committees/reconsideration/bgc-recommendation-09dec10-en.pdf

What new domains could overtake .com?

admin — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 12:00:25 +0000

Currently, there are about 85 million .com domain names. Even with the introduction of extensions such as .info, .biz and .eu,

.com still dominates the domain name marketplace.

As ICANN prepares to release a new group of extensions, what new domain could threaten .com’s dominance?

Well, perhaps we should be taking a closer look at these private namespaces?

TechCrunch reported today and there are currently 100 million registered users on Twitter. And, we found that as of March 2010, there are 400 million registered Facebook users and as of January 2009, 500 million Windows Live users are reported. These figures are pretty impressive and don’t even touch upon Amazon, Google and Yahoo users.

We’re watching closely and will keep you posted.

Currently, there are about 85 million .com domain names. Even with the introduction of extensions such as .info, .biz and .eu, .com still dominates the domain name marketplace.

As ICANN prepares to release a new group of extensions, what new domain extension could threaten .com’s dominance?

Well, perhaps we should be taking a closer look at some private namespaces that might be tempted to launch their own extension?

TechCrunch reported today that there are currently 100 million registered users on Twitter. And, we found that as of March 2010, there are 400 million registered Facebook users and as of January 2009, 500 million Windows Live users are reported. These figures are pretty impressive and don’t even touch upon Amazon, Google and Yahoo users.

Who do you think will apply for their own domain extension?

Here come the IDNs…

admin — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 20:20:18 +0000

ICANN has approved the first internationalized top-level domain names for Egypt, the Russian Federation, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates.

These domains are scheduled to go live in mid-2010 and will allow the usage of non-Latin character sets to access information from sites using those domains.

These four IDNs are the first of many non-Latin domain names that are expected to be approved. In fact, ICANN has already received sixteen applications in eight languages.

Subscribe to EnCirca’s RSS feed to be notified when more IDNs are approved and when registration begins for the first four IDNs.

Big drop of dot pro domain names

admin — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 22:42:40 +0000

Today saw a big drop of dot pro domain names following the one year anniversary of the .pro re-launch. .Pro is the ICANN-approved top-level domain (gTLD) for licensed professionals, including lawyers, engineers, accountants, architects, doctors, building contractors and health professionals.

Review the list to grab some premium generic keywords at

Recently deleted dot pro domains