The Domain Roundtable conference is organized by Name Intelligence, Inc. the creator of Whois Source. The conference is about domains, and how domain names and the surrounding industries are working together to grow opportunity and increase trust and integrity in the process. The conference will take place April 19 - 21, 2006 at The Westin Hotel in Bellevue, Washington.
Domain Roundtable will be featuring ICANN Chairman/Google Chief Internet Evangelist and co-designer of the original TCP/IP protocols of the Internet, Dr. Vinton G. Cerf, as a keynote speaker. His speech will elaborate on the framework of the domain name market while identifying the challenges of expanding the top-level domain space. In addition, he will offer some survival tips for registrants, registrars and registries on understanding the state of their domain portfolios.
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February 8th, 2006
Benjamin Decraene from Belgium is the owner of the domain name skyp.com, and uses the domain name to redirect visitors to skype.com. WIPO denied skype.com complaint. The WIPO expert took into account the fact that the respondent is an affiliate of the complainant:
“After reviewing all of the proof provided by the Complainant and the Respondent, the Panel finds it established that the Respondent has been allowed – on several occasions – to insert a hyperlink on his website to the Complainant’s website within the scope of different affiliation programs. The fact that an announcer expressly accepts – as in this case – that an affiliate becomes part of an affiliation program hyperlinking to the announcer’s website may, according to this Panel, be considered as an authorization/permission to use the Domain Name. The Complainant, by accepting the Respondent as an affiliate, could perhaps be regarded as having recognized the rights and/or legitimate interests of the Respondent in the Domain Name.”
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February 7th, 2006
“The secondary market for domains represents a new source of revenue for Tucows and our channel of service providers,” said Elliot Noss, President and CEO Tucows Inc. “Our strategy is to create a suite of services specifically designed to harness the reach of our channel and give service providers the information and tools they need to take advantage of this growing business.”
Domain Name Auction is a white-labeled service. Service providers can offer potential new registrants the ability to bid on expiring domains via links from the service provider’s website. The first auctions are expected to begin February 13, 2006. Buyers of domain names will be able to find out information on how to participate in the auctions at www.tucowsauctions.com. Registrants maintain their right to renew and keep their domain throughout the auction process. Tucows’ Parked Pages service will generate revenue from pay-per-click advertising for both expired and unexpired domain names. This revenue will be shared with service providers.
Tucows’ Domain Name Auction and Parked Pages services are being offered in beta to existing members of the company’s service provider channel. During the beta period, service providers are being asked to provide feedback on the business policies and tools associated with the services.”
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February 6th, 2006
“The Irish Department of Communications is planning to put in place a regulatory framework for the IE domain. This is a good and bad - bad because regulation may well impose an administrative and cost burden, but good because it will spur reform of the Registry (a private company, with self-selected directors) which is unwilling to reform itself from within.”
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February 5th, 2006
The NTIA (United States Department of Commerce’s National Telecommunications and Information Administration) requires all .us domain names to no longer have any form of WHOIS privacy protection.
February 5th, 2006
“BuyDomains (http://www.buydomains.com), a division of YesDirect, Inc., today announced the acquisition of 32,000 “.com” domain names, increasing the company’s industry leading portfolio size to greater than 600,000 high performance domain names.
The acquired one and two word domains are concentrated in the lucrative advertising verticals of finance, travel, education, and recruitment. Additionally, the 32,000 domain addition consists exclusively of coveted one and two word “.com” domains.“
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February 3rd, 2006
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