ICANN Discusses New Generic Top Level Domains (gTLDs)
Bruce Tonkin and Kurt Pritz shared some interesting information on the progress towards creating new generic top level domains (gTLDs) at the March 2007 ICANN meetings in Portugal.
Tonkin began the session by providing a history of domains, going back as far as when domain names were more like domain codes (IP addresses) because they were [...]
Visa Announces Investment in dotMobi
Visa today announced a strategic investment in dotMobi. This investment adds Visa to a consortium of 13 leading mobile operators, device manufacturers and Internet content providers.
Visa brings to dotMobi extensive mobile commerce and payment capabilities, including solutions for contactless mobile payment, Over the Air (OTA) personalization, coupons and direct marketing.
“Visa’s strategic alliance with dotMobi puts [...]
Getting Ready For .Asia
It’s all set. The .asia top level domain (TLD) was approved by ICANN in late 2006 and the DotAsia Organisation is quietly but surely moving forward with the gradual launch of the new domain. According to a rough timeline, there will be three sunrise periods to allow special entities to register their domains: The first [...]
New Members For DotMobi Advisory Group
Big business is getting serious on .mobi domain names. DotMobi recently announced that ten major corporations from various nations have joined the DotMobi Advisory Group (MAG). The ten newcomers include:
GoDaddy (USA)
Carlson Marketing (USA)
Millennial Media (USA)
Sony (Japan)
Firstserver (Japan)
ooober (Canada)
Instant Access Technologies (UK)
Bango (UK)
Telecom Italia (Italy)
Nubiq (Ireland)
The companies have joined the Advisory Group in order to be [...]
DotMobi Launches Developer's Guide and Ready.Mobi
Did you know that twice as many people have access to a cell phone or other mobile device than they do a PC? I didn't until I read the DotMobi Web Developer's Guide, and I couldn't resist getting a little excited about my .mobi domains!
The DotMobi Web Developer's Guide is designed, as the title hints [...]
Tokelau: Renaming The Internet 2.0
As a result of SiteAdvisor's report on the world's most dangerous domains, Tokelau, which is a colonial territory of New Zealand that offers free .tk domain registrations, has been widely reproached and even ridiculed for its perceived failure to properly regulate its domain extension. Here are some of the headlines:
Island domains turn Pacific into an [...]
SiteAdvisor Tracks World's Most Dangerous Domains
Many Internet users are concerned about the safety (or lack thereof) of content they encounter as they surf the Net. Top risks include getting looped in to scams, unauthorized downloads showing up on computers, receiving massive amounts of spam after registering at a website, and those all too infamous wayward links that take you to [...]